elk heart

[kisfish]

I have never tried elk heart before until yesterday. It didn't have any eye appeal but it was real tasty. A friend cans just about everything and stopped by with a jar of what looked like sliced liver. He states you need to try this. I was thinking looks like yote, possum, or some other yummy creature  . Well after getting the nerve to try it I was so surprised. It tasted great. How do you cook your elk hearts?

[jason stevens]

Sliced up like little steaks with fried potatoes and onions topped with over easy eggs and biscuits on the same day as the kill or the next morning always fresh.

[Whitpirate]

Sliced thin, dredged in seasoned flour and fried to medium in a little olive oil and butter.  Serve with mashed potato and make an apple cider gravy with the pan leavings.

[762Armo]

I love hearts. Roasted over the fire, or mixed with the liver and fried in a pan, with onions, pepper, salt, and a bit of beer. 

[10thmountainarcher]

Do all hearts taste the same? I have honestly never had the stomach to try em before especially after eating liver yuck.. Now I think I'm most excited to shoot a buck and cook the heart up? So just curious if elk and deer will be relatively similar.

[buglebuster]

I like it sliced thick and fried after you fry some bacon to go with it in the grease. Little johnnys and garlic with eggs

[JPhelps]

They are awesome we cook them as "chewy" steak :tup

[jason stevens]

Do all hearts taste the same? I have honestly never had the stomach to try em before especially after eating liver yuck.. Now I think I'm most excited to shoot a buck and cook the heart up? So just curious if elk and deer will be relatively similar.

       very similar and great try it you'll love it

[Blacklab]

Pan fried heart sandwhich

can't stand liver

[kisfish]

Do all hearts taste the same? I have honestly never had the stomach to try em before especially after eating liver yuck.. Now I think I'm most excited to shoot a buck and cook the heart up? So just curious if elk and deer will be relatively similar.

I understand not having the stomach to try it. No one in my hunting group has ever eaten it. I really didn't want to try it but thought what the heck. I will never let another heart go. They will get cooked up at camp.

Another question, Is there any special cleaning involved, trying to remove veins, arteries, chambers ect?

[bowhunterforever]

I just boil it for about 20-30 minutes in salt water, then slice in thin pieces and make sandwiches. Tastes kinda like roast beef

[jason stevens]

Do all hearts taste the same? I have honestly never had the stomach to try em before especially after eating liver yuck.. Now I think I'm most excited to shoot a buck and cook the heart up? So just curious if elk and deer will be relatively similar.

I understand not having the stomach to try it. No one in my hunting group has ever eaten it. I really didn't want to try it but thought what the heck. I will never let another heart go. They will get cooked up at camp.



Cut it in half clean out blood cut off viens fry it up
Another question, Is there any special cleaning involved, trying to remove veins, arteries, chambers ect?

[tonymoe]

Only one way to eat the heart in my camp, first off its the very next thing on the menu, clean it up, slice it up in 1/4"-1/2" steaks, throw in frying pan with butter and garlic salt!!!!
So far this year I've had moose heart and antelope heart!! Plus, you feel better about eating all you can from the animal you just took. I guess it's a respect thing for me and my partner.
We even made my nephew take a bite out of the moose heart, he said it wasn't too bad. After all, he was the shooter anyway.
 

[billythekidrock]

Only one way to eat the heart in my camp, first off its the very next thing on the menu, clean it up, slice it up in 1/4"-1/2" steaks, throw in frying pan with butter and garlic salt!!!!
So far this year I've had moose heart and antelope heart!! Plus, you feel better about eating all you can from the animal you just took. I guess it's a respect thing for me and my partner.
We even made my nephew take a bite out of the moose heart, he said it wasn't too bad. After all, he was the shooter anyway.
 

[Hawgdawg]

cook mine the same as the above posts. Did try something different this year. Boiled up some cow and calf elk heart and threw in the smoker with some ribs for deer camp. Turned out awesome the heart excepted the smoke very nicely.

[Humptulips]

Only thing I think is critical on cooking heart is to be sure and trim any fat off.
That tallow stuff on the big end of the heart will ruin it.

[huntingfool7]

Only thing I think is critical on cooking heart is to be sure and trim any fat off.
That tallow stuff on the big end of the heart will ruin it.

[Axle]

I either cut it up and grind it with the burger or boil it in seasonings with 2 bay leaves (boil for 60 to 90 minutes). It makes awesome sandwich meat when using bay leaves. 

[ICEMAN]

Come on guys! The only way to cook up a heart is to stuff it and bake it!!!

We trim up our deer and elk hearts, trim off any fat.
Cut the top of the heart off, and trim out any connective tissues you see in the chambers.
Mince up an entire apple with skin on, and an entire onion. Mix in a container, add some salt and pepper.
Stuff your heart with the apple/onion mixture.
Cram it full, the heart will expand a whole lot.
Place the heart in a pan or tray and bake in the oven at moderate heat till no red juices flow from it.
(sometimes we lace a few strips of bacon over the heart)
After baked, cut the heart into slabs, then cut the slabs into houerderve sized pieces.
Place the heart with the apple/onion debris out for your hunters to eat as a pre-dinner treat.
Toothpicks or plastic forks for guys to enjoy. It will all get eaten.

Enjoy.

Really good.

[gaddy]

man Ice, your recipes sound good! the wife chunks them up in big chunks & trims. seasoned cornflake crumbs & bakes em. we've tried the tempura stuff but the flakes are the way to go. try frosted flake crumbs !
we do deer, elk, beef, chicken when we find them & I always pull the hearts from ducks & geese.

[pianoman9701]

I love the heart. Sliced fairly thin, dredged in seasoned flour, sauteed in oil and butter. Awesome stuff.

[KopperBuck]

Lots of ways to cook it - just don't overcook it. I always soak mine in a little saltwater the night before I want to cook it to draw some of the blood out. In my top 5 favorite meats.

[Song Dog]

This is what I do in camp with the heart
1 deer or elk heart
1 box stove top cornbread stuffing
2 sweet Italian sausages
1 apple
1 small yellow onion
Soak the heart in salt water overnight.  When ready to cook, trim and hollow heart, reserving any meat trimmed out.  Remove Italian sausage from casings and brown along with any of the reserved meat.  Dice up apple and onion and add to the stuffing along with the sausage and heart meat.  Stuff the mixture into the heart and place into a baking dish.  Place excess stuffing around heart and bake at 350 for about an hour.