Venison Heart Recipe

To clean the heart

1. You can see that the outside of the heart is completely surrounded by a thick membrane. The first job is to remove that.
2. Open the membrane with a very sharp knife. Cut it all of the way down and just slide the heart out of the membrane.
3. Once the heart is removed, cut the membrane off.
4. Clean off the top of the heart by cutting a fresh cut. You can see all of the chambers are full of blood.
5. Rinse the heart well inside and outside to remove all of the blood.
6. Cut off all of the fat and silver skin off of the muscle.
7. Cut down through one of the chambers and open it like a book. Clean up any fat, grizzle, or connective tissue.
8. Flip the muscle over and cut through the other chamber. Open that like a book too.
9. You will see that there are two obvious places to cut them into steaks. You end up with three large pieces. One of the steaks will be thicker, and one will be considerably thinner. They will cook at different rates.

How to marinate the steaks

1. Add all of the marinade ingredients to a medium bowl.
2. Mix well.
3. Add the steaks to the marinade. Marinate for one hour up to two days.

How to cook them

1. Dry the steaks between sheets of paper towel.
2. Tenderize steaks with a blade-type meat tenderizer. Add the oil or butter to a cast iron skillet over medium-high heat.
3. Quick sear the steaks over medium-high heat on both sides for 2-3 minutes per side.
4. Remember that the skinniest steak will take less time than the thicker steaks.