Elk heart how to?

[Jakeweb09]

How do you guys do your hearts up? Also curious how many of you leave the hearts with the gut pile

 

[jmez]

I leave it

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[brandon.andersen]

Battered and fried for breakfast. Or wrapped in bacon, smoked, then grilled

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[Wrench]

I've pickled a few....they rock.

 

[Jakeweb09]

Pickled huh? I would have never thought of that!

 

[Agross]

Pickled heart is excellent

 

[ShakeDown]

Sliced, seasoned, lightly floured, pan seared with onion, served with tortilla.

Sliced, salt, pepper, fried in butter.

Never leave the heart, first night after a kill is always tenderloins and heart.

 

[LongWayAround]

Bacon wrapped, smoked , and grilled is the best I've found.

 

[Pro953]

I enjoyed it cleaned into nice little steaks. Grilled super hot to not over cook. We then sliced and topped with chimichurri and some greens. Damn good. Just don’t cover cook.


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[Trr15]

Growing up, my grandmother always use to pan fry whitetail hearts. Sliced thin, seasoned heavily with salt and pepper, fried in butter or bacon grease with onion. I do elk hearts the same way.

 

[Jameson]

I’ve always sliced thin and pan fry in butter and seasoned with some salt and pepper. I even made fajitas once with an elk heart. Good table fare!

 

[Stalker69]

My dad always saved the liver, heart, brains,tongue. I ate it but didn’t care for it much. Now they advise not to eat organs due to CWD. Sence my dad pasted, I leave it all in the field. The meat is far better, and if you have the organs, you should have meat , right ? Not sure why you would eat those when you have a great meal in front of you. Just my opionion

 

[idaho-shooter]

I love heart. Elk moose bear deer caribou all of them. Boil with pepper corns onion garlic and salt. About an hour. Drain. Cool. Slice thin. It’s great.

 

[xcutter]

Only done this with deer heart. Trim the white stuff off the heart. Cut into 1/2" thick steaks. Put in a ziploc bag and tenderize with a mallet. I put Lawry's seasoning salt, black pepper and garlic powder on it. Fry in bacon grease until desired inside temp. Tastes fantastic. My wife ate half the heart thinking it was tenderloin. Wouldn't eat another bite once I told her it was heart. LOL. Just a mental thing.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

My dad always saved the liver, heart, brains,tongue. I ate it but didn’t care for it much. Now they advise not to eat organs due to CWD. Sence my dad pasted, I leave it all in the field. The meat is far better, and if you have the organs, you should have meat , right ? Not sure why you would eat those when you have a great meal in front of you. Just my opionion

Pretty sure heart is considered muscle vs organ just as a point of conversation.

I take hearts but leave the rest. The heart is good lean meat. That said I'm not a fan of the texture unless its well trimmed so typically I just add it to the grind meat. Occasionally when we've been in a situation to cook up some meat in camp (rarely as we're hunting/hauling/etc typically) we've taken the time to trim it well and cook up with some carmalized onions and loin meat.

 

[coloyooper]

High heat. Garlic and onions. Fresh is best but I froze half the heart this year and ate up just fine in tacos a few months later.

 

[LongWayAround]

My dad always saved the liver, heart, brains,tongue. I ate it but didn’t care for it much. Now they advise not to eat organs due to CWD. Sence my dad pasted, I leave it all in the field. The meat is far better, and if you have the organs, you should have meat , right ? Not sure why you would eat those when you have a great meal in front of you. Just my opionion

CWD lives in the central nervous system, don't eat brain or spinal cord and you should be fine. Heart is a great meal, among my favorites in fact. Tongue is pretty good too, much like roast beef. Both are basically just a piece of meat. I don't care to eat liver but I've never heard it linked to any dietary malfunction (aside from high vitamin A in some animals).

 

[jspradley]

Leaving hearts in the gut pile should be punishable by public flogging!!!

I've never had elk heart but all other heart I've had has been delicious.

Cut it open to clean out any blood clots and those little stringy pieces and cook it hot and fast, hard to beat it!

 

[Nickofthewoods]

Sliced, breaded, and fried. I pull the heart and liver.

 

[HiMtnHntr]

Soak in salt water for a few days. Slice, coat in seasoned flour and fry in the cast iron.