Moose meat in the oven

First prepare the meat - wash it, remove the films (if available). There is no need to salt moose meat, as it has its own specific salty taste.

Cooking marinade. To do this, pour water into a saucepan, pour wine into it and add spices: thyme, mint, rosemary, lavrushka, cloves, a mixture of peppers, juniper berries. We also put cranberries - it can be crushed a little. Put the pan on the stove, bring to a boil. At this time, peel the onion and garlic. Finely chop the onion, crush the garlic cloves with the flat side of a knife. Put both in the boiled marinade. Taste the marinade and, if necessary (if it is not very sour), add a little wine vinegar. Approximately to the acid of dry red wine. Put the moose meat directly into the hot marinade. Cover the pan with a lid, let it cool and put it in the refrigerator to marinate for 3 days.

Time has passed - remove the moose meat from the marinade. Brush with mustard. Put the meat on a baking sheet or in a baking dish (the main thing is that there are high sides), put spices from the marinade on the loin and around it. Pour two glasses of marinade into a baking tray, put it in a preheated oven to 160 degrees. Now you need to monitor the cooking process - as soon as the amount of marinade in the pan is halved, open the oven and pour the thickened marinade over the meat from above. Pour two more glasses of marinade into the baking tray. Repeat the process until the marinade is all in the pan.

Wash the apples, cut out the cores from them, cut into circles 3 mm thick. Place the circles on a flat surface, brush them with half of the honey on top. Mix the remaining honey in a small container with pine nuts.

The marinade has evaporated - remove the meat from the oven, remove from the baking sheet. Clean the baking sheet and spices. Put the fat on the bottom of the baking sheet. Make incisions all over the meat, in which you will overlap the honey-smeared circles of apples and pieces of bacon.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, put a baking tray and bake the meat, from time to time pouring fat from the bottom on top of it. Keep the meat in the oven for 1-1.5 hours (until a beautiful and appetizing crust forms on the meat). Put the nuts mixed with honey on the moose meat, coat the whole piece of meat with a mass. The oven temperature must be increased to 210 degrees. Keep the meat pan in the oven for 15 minutes until the honey turns into caramel.

Remove the meat from the oven, let it stand for half an hour. Honey caramel will harden a little during this time. After that, put the meat on a wide and beautiful dish, decorate with fresh herbs.

Serve moose meat baked in the oven with vegetables - fresh, baked, boiled (to your taste).

Bon appetit!