Best heart recipe?

[alecvg]

I got a heart from my blacktail in my freezer, never cooked or eaten heart before.  Any good simple recipes for a beginner?

[Karl Blanchard]

Heart tips and gravy:

Clean it up really well 
Cut into smaller pieces (big enough to bread but small enough to eat in one bite)
bread and fry
serve over noodles with brown gravy

[barracuda163]

Slice very thin while still partially frozen, dip in flour seasoned with Johnny's, then egg and back to flour. Pan fry hot and fast.

[Dhoey07]

Steven Rinella has a stuffed heart recipe that sounded delicious

[Karl Blanchard]

and if all else fails, cut into chunks and use it as stew meat!  Sitka blacktails are the best eating game meat hands down.  If it was fresh I would offer you $20 and drive to pick it up!  They are that good!

[ICEMAN]

No, no, no, do not attempt any of those other recipes.

The best way to prepare your deer heart is to;

Thaw it, trim it of all fat, cut the top section off so you can see inside each chamber. With scissors, trim out all connective tissues inside the heart. Wash out the heart.

Cut up one onion, and one apple. Toss these chuncks into a bowl and add some salt and pepper, mix well.

Stuff the heart with your onion/apple mixture. Keep stuffing until the heart bulges.

Place heart in a broiling pan, etc. place extra onion/apple mix around heart.

Drape a few slices of bacon over heart, held in place with a toothpick.

Bake heart in 350 deg oven until done. Heart will be done, when it is lightly browned, yet still a tiny spec of pink to the meat.

Cut entire heart and bacon up into snack sized pieces, spead out on plate with onion/apple stuffing. Eat with a fork or toothpicks, beer in your other hand.

This is the best way to cook a deer or elk heart, hands down.

[WSU]

I cook it just like liver and onions and it is awesome!

[alecvg]

Thanks for the tips guys!  It may be a project this week.  I will report!

[hollymaster]

No, no, no, do not attempt any of those other recipes.

The best way to prepare your deer heart is to;

Thaw it, trim it of all fat, cut the top section off so you can see inside each chamber. With scissors, trim out all connective tissues inside the heart. Wash out the heart.

Cut up one onion, and one apple. Toss these chuncks into a bowl and add some salt and pepper, mix well.

Stuff the heart with your onion/apple mixture. Keep stuffing until the heart bulges.

Place heart in a broiling pan, etc. place extra onion/apple mix around heart.

Drape a few slices of bacon over heart, held in place with a toothpick.

Bake heart in 350 deg oven until done. Heart will be done, when it is lightly browned, yet still a tiny spec of pink to the meat.

Cut entire heart and bacon up into snack sized pieces, spead out on plate with onion/apple stuffing. Eat with a fork or toothpicks, beer in your other hand.

This is the best way to cook a deer or elk heart, hands down.

Dam wish I hadn't trimmed and cut it up already. Sounds nummy! 

[SFD2015]

Cut it into steaks (you can do smaller chunk pieces if you want, but steaks are DELICIOUS), Cast Iron pan. Melt Butter. Season with Hunters Blend (lightly. the salt from the butter will season allot as well). Through heart in the pan, cook as if it were a real steak (keep in mind the thickness). Turn only once, when you turn add chantrelle mushrooms and saute together. Serve over white rice. Make a gravy out of the yumminess left in the pan!

[vandeman17]

My best heart recipe is to remove from animal, place in zip lock bag, give to uncle and make sure I am not around when he cooks it. 

I have tried heart cooked a few different ways and never cared for it. I am actually just tagging this thread in case I feel adventurous and want to try it again sometime 

[elkboy]

*Deer heart parmesan*  Wash heart thoroughly.  Slice cross-wise to 3/8" thickness.  Dredge through mixture of egg and cream, then bread with Italian bread crumb mixture.  Saute breaded heart slices until golden brown.  Arrange all cooked heart slices on bottom of 9x13 glass pan.  Chop up large onion, and saute in olive oil until caramelized.  Spoon a layer of pan-caramelized onion over the heart slices, then add a layer of marinara sauce.  Top with a layer of reggiano or parmesan cheese, and bake in a 375 deg. oven for 35 minutes. 
BTW, I love deer heart.  I have never succeeded with deer liver, so that becomes coyote food, but the heart always comes home with the deer! 

[NOCK NOCK]

Mine never make it past the day it was still operational Pan fried with flour in camp
I may or may not have "poached" a few from found gut piles ....I LOVE HEART

[billythekidrock]

I can't stand boiled hearts and haven't had a good stuffed one, but have NEVER had a bad fried heart steak.

Slice, trim, bread in your choice of flour/crumbs/spices/etc and fry like steak in a little bit of oil. Eat right out of the pan or cover with gravy and mushrooms.

December elk heart, potatoes and gravy with chanterelles.