How do you get the gamey taste out of lamb?
Chef's answer
Milk definitely helps, a soak in yogurt is common in Indian cooking. Breaks down the meat a bit, and reduces gamey flavor in goat, mutton or lamb.
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In The Kitchen Prior to cooking, soak your venison steaks overnight in buttermilk. This will help pull the blood out of the meat and remove some of that gamy taste. You can make buttermilk simply by adding vinegar to regular milk from the carton.
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In The Kitchen Prior to cooking, soak your venison steaks overnight in buttermilk. This will help pull the blood out of the meat and remove some of that gamy taste. You can make buttermilk simply by adding vinegar to regular milk from the carton.
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Grass fed meat tends to be more gamey and aging the meat adds to the gamey flavor. Try using meat that is less aged, but if you do be sure to use a well marbled cut or it won't be as tender. ... If you don't like the flavor of beef, then don't spend the extra money to buy grass fed beef....
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Milk definitely helps, a soak in yogurt is common in Indian cooking. Breaks down the meat a bit, and reduces gamey flavor in goat, mutton or lamb.
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That "gamey" taste, for lack of a better term, lies in the meat's fat, and is a result of the animal's diet. What it all comes down to is a particular type of fatty acid that lambs have and beef and chicken don't. It's called branched-chain fatty acid. This is something that humans can detect at really low levels.
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The salt helps suck a lot of the bad flavors right out. Make sure you give the meat a good clean water bath before cooking, though. Otherwise, the salt can really overpower. Marinades are also a great way to reduce the gamey taste in wild meat..
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