What sets this dish apart is the luxurious sauce—a velvety reduction of wine and broth that thickens over time, coating the venison in a rich, glossy finish.
An Italian pot roast starts with a soffritto base of finely chopped onions, carrots, and celery. The extra surface area brings out the flavors and provides a bed for the roast.
Ham and Swiss cheese pair wonderfully in a sandwich but also work extremely well to add flavors to a meatloaf. The two ingredients can be diced and shredded to add to a meatloaf or sliced to line the baking dish and top the loaf. A special sauce with mustard makes the dish complete.
The shanks off any animal are often undervalued and, in some cases, discarded. However, once you embrace a shank for what it can produce, it can become a special meal worth planning to enjoy.
Curing and smoking venison shanks provides many recipe options, but using a couple of them to make split pea soup with plenty of meat is a perfect meal for hunting camp.