Recipe - Roast Wild Boar With Fig Date And Walnut Stuffi

Stephen Ceideburg

STUFFING
2 cup Fresh black figs
1 cup Fresh date
1 cup Coarsely chopped, lightly
roasted walnuts

MEAT
10 pound Boar hind
1 tablespoon Olive oil
Crushed thyme to taste
Salt to taste

SAUCE
2 cup Port wine
1 cup Zinfandel
One half cup Sugar
1 cup Chopped fresh or dried figs
1 tablespoon Chopped shallots
2 cup Demiglace (reduced stock)
1 tablespoon Unsalted butter
Salt to taste

Combine stuffing ingredients in a food processor and chop coarsely. Set
aside.

Remove the bone from the boar hind and meticulously clean tendons and fat
from inside the leg. Stuff with half the stuffing mixture and neatly reform
the leg to its original shape. Using butcher's twine, truss the boar. Rub
the surface of roast with a bit of olive oil; season with thyme and salt.
Place on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. Roast in a 350 degree F. oven
approx imately I hour, or until the internal temperature reaches 140
degree F.

Remove roast from oven and let rest 20 minutes before carving.

Sauce: Combine port, Zinfandel, sugar and figs in a heavy bottomed
saucepan. Cook over high heat until the mixture reaches the consistency of
a conserve. Puree in a blender, and strain through a fine sieve. Set aside.

Combine shallots and a splash of port in a heavybottomed saucepan and cook
until almost dry. Add the figport syrup and demiglace. Cook until reduced
by half. Season with salt and whisk in butter.

Carve roast and garnish each serving with a portion of the remaining
stuffing, a bit of sauce and, if desired, fresh black figs.

PER SERVING: 505 calories, 52 g protein, 34 g carbohydrate, 16 g fat (4 g
saturated), 173 mg cholesterol, 127 mg sodium, 4 g fiber.

From Rosemary Campiformio, St. Orres, Gualala

Heidi Haughy Cusik writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, 12/18/91.

Posted by Stephen Ceideburg

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