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Pepper Crusted Eland Loin with Garlic Sauce

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Ingredients

Meat

  • 15 ml olive oil
  • 1 kg eland loin
  • 3 tablespoons black pepper corns crushed
  • salt to season

    Garlic Sauce
  • 1 whole garlic clove tops sliced off
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • foil to wrap
  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • 2 cups milk
  • salt and black pepper to season

    Zucchini Fries
  • 2 cups zucchini sliced into wedges
  • 1/2 cup coconut flour
  • 1 large egg whisked
  • 1/2 cup desiccated coconut
  • 1/2 cup grated parmesan
  • oil to fry

Instructions

  • First off, preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
  • Add the garlic to the oven – roast your whole garlic by encasing it in foil and drizzling it with a little olive oil for about 30 minutes.
  • Then, heat your grill pan until very hot, rub the eland loin with olive oil and seal the meat by turning it every few seconds until brown.
  • Add the crusted pepper corns on the top side of the meat and transfer the pan to the hot oven for 3 – 5 minutes. Remove from oven and leave to rest.
  • For the garlic sauce; melt the butter in a saucepan, add the flour and whisk it through making a paste.
  • Add the milk little by little, while whisking.
  • Cook until the sauce boils and thickens – add more milk if necessary.
  • Remove the garlic from the oven and scoop out two of the soft cloves – add it to the sauce and mix it through.
  • For the zucchini fries; heat some oil in a small pot. 
  • Dip the zucchini fries in coconut flour, then in the egg and then in the coconut and parmesan ‘crumbs’. Fry until golden.
  • Serve slices of Eland loin with garlic sauce and zucchini fries.