You need 700 g frozen turkey brown meat, like leg files. The froze meat has to melt for some three hours, or maybe less, so that it is still frozen but you can cut it with a sharp knife.
Chop two onions to small pieces. Make the following game spices:
- 5 juniper berries
- 20 whole black peppers
- 5 whole red peppers
- 1 teaspoon of rosemary (rosmariini)
- 2 spice measures of hot pepper (hot paprika)
- 1 teaspoon of chopped garlic (valkosipulirouhe)
Crush these in a mortar and mix. Add two teaspoons of salt. Cut the meat in thin slices with a sharp knife (ike fileerausveitsi), the thinner the better, the slices can be large but thin.
Find a deep enough frying pan, so that the pan can hold over half a liter of liquid.
Stake the meat in butter while it, or some if it, still is frozen, a short time on both sides. Take the meat pieces from the pan and steak the onion in butter. Then add the meat, spices and 4 dl of red wine. I use some cheap half-dry red wine. Without the wine, the meat will not have the correct dark color, and it adds to the taste. Then add a vegetarian bullion cube diluted in 3 dl of boiling water and throw in three bay leaves (laurel leaves). They are always good. Let the stew cook for about one hour under a cover in low heat in the frying pan. Add two food spoons of chopped fresh parsley at some point. The game taste comes largely from the juniper berries, you may try with 7 juniper berries if 5 is not enough. You necessarily need the black peppers and as turkey simply is not so juicy, you need all that is written here.
You eat this food with mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes for 3-4 people: take 12 big potatoes, cook them in water and 2 teaspoons of salt. Mash them and mix with a mixer adding milk as much as needed. Still you need a jar of not too sweet lingonberry jam, or preferably jam where the berries are whole. Put mashed potatos on the plate, make a hole for the meat, put the meat there, with a spoon add juice of this wine and bullion mixture, and two spoons of jam. That is good. Almost like the real one from reindeer.
So, remember, cut thin slices with a sharp knife when the meat is still frozen, some 2.5 hours out of the freezer. Like kebab, only the kebab guys do not have frozen meat, that is Saami food.
