I was given a couple of venison steaks, but have no idea how to cook it. Anybody have any simple bust still good recipes they want to share with me?

I have deer burger that I have no clue what to do with too.
Someone said just cook it like you would hamburger, others have said you have to take the wild taste out.
I have no clue.
Hope someone can help you wisper, I sure can't, I have no clue how to cook anything wild. Sorry.

Soak them in ice water for about an hour, drain, marinate them..

2 tbsp. peanut or vegetable oil
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp worchestershire
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 tbsp minced garlic (i don't use it for venison}

marinate in the fridge for about three hours..
You can also marinate with Italian dressing.

I prefer it grilled, but you can also do this on a stove top.
I like to wrap bacon around the outer edges and secure with toothpicks.
Thats how i fix it anyway...

All we eat is elk, deer, antelope I very rarely buy beef....
Whisper do you know what the cut is on them? Back strap, Loin steak, round steak??

PMS....you can definately use that burger for anything....makes great spaghetti, sloppy joes, hamburger helper, lasagna....whatever!

Thank you for the recipe. And mountain it is leg steak.

Hmmm.....probably round steak then! You can really use any kind of a marinade package on it depending on your like. I like the McCormick Marinades the muskeet is pretty good as is the teriaki. Another trick (because it is not one of your more tender cuts) is to add some beer or 7up to whatever marinade you
decide to use and that will tenderize it a bit for you. You can also just salt pepper and garlic and fry, broil, or grill. Though if you are not accustomed to wild game you may enjoy it w/ a marinade better.

JMO....(no offense Mark) but I would not put bacon on mine. One of the benefits of eating venison is that it is a MUCH leaner meat than beef....so adding bacon kind of takes away from that.

We are big hunters in our family. The best part of the deer (yes in Texas they don't run that big) is the back strap which is cut into steaks and we like to fry them. Yep, another Texas tradition. Because game meat has more flavor, I find I don't need a whole lot of seasoning, but the breading is what is important. We use a wet/dry mix and the dry mix is a 3 part flour, one part cornbread mixture. Add your own seasonings as you'd like, but fried venison steaks are awesome!!!

We are the same lausim. I always have a freezer full of meat!

Yeah, actually during deer season, I'm stocked up, but we are carnivors, so eventually I have withdrawals, so I go hit up my Dad for some good venison. We process our own, so we make steaks, ground, summer sausage, jerky and breakfast sausage. MMMM I'm hungry!

We also process our own. I got a deer and an elk draw this year. Should be plenty for the girls and I.

I'm an avid hunter and process my meat myself, I was a meat cutter for 5 years so I know all the cuts, The first simple thing to do with a wild game steak is not to cook it on the grill because theres no fat in the meat and will dry out quickly unless you have lots of patience and can slow cook it, otherwise, I like to pan fry mine with some crisco that has the butter in it, keeps the meat moist and you can add any flavoring to it to your taste! I use Lawrys all seasoning and some new stuff I bought from bass pro shops! Make sure that the meat you got wasnt "aged" like beef, game meat is best processed 2 days after the kill, some guys think that if its aged it will taste better....NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!! The sooner its processed the better it will taste, otherwise, it may as well be Jerky! Hope this can help ya out! I have lots of ways to cook game meat, just ask!

Some of the biggest contributing factors that effect the taste of wild meat are the time of year, what they eat and aging/processing the meat.
A mule deer from a forested area will taste a lot different than a grain fed one off the praries. Same for whitetail.
Moose is extremely lean and you do have to be careful in cooking it so that it doesn't dry out. Crock pots are one of the best ways or a roast wrapped in bacon done in the oven. The drippings make one of the best gravies you'll ever have!
The taste is also effected during mating season, with all the raging hormones as is when the moose start eating off the trees rather than in the swamps after everything freezes.
Moose is my favorite but I've eaten some of almost everything that walks on this continent. I'd have to say bear is my least favorite...so far. Hmmmm, that or coyote.

the best way to use deer burger, in my opinion, is chili. it doesnt taste gamey. some ppl use it in tacos, but i personally am not a fan of it.

i prefer to cook the venison steaks on the stove after marinating. then i add some butter, onion, and mushrooms. the butter also seems to make it more tender.