Venison Jalapeno Poppers - Cooking Wild Meat

Serves 6
4 poppers per serving
135 calories
5.5g fat
2.5 g saturated fat
51 mg cholesterol
14.5 g protein
2.5g carbohydrate
1g sugar
675mg sodium; 30mg calcium.
 
Recipe
1/2  lb venison (top round or bottom round)
1/2 tspn salt
12 medium jalapeno peppers
12 bacon slices
1. Cut venison into 24 even strips.  You do want to make sure the strips are a little longer than peppers.
2. In a bowl mix together the venison strips, salt and pepper.  Stir until their is an even distribution of seasonings.
3.  Remove the stems from peppers and slice each pepper in half lengthwise.
4. Optional if you don't like hot and spicy foods remove pepper seeds and membranes.  If you desire hot and spicy don't remove.
5. Bacon, cut each slice in half.

Cooking Wild Meat - Assembly of the Jalapeno Poppers.

6. Take each pepper half and place a venison strip inside.
7. Wrap your halved bacon slices around each venison and pepper.
8.  Secure with toothpick.

7. Light a charcoal grill and allow to warm (5 minutes).
8. Evenly distribute the poppers on the rack above the grill surface.  
9. Cook 5 minutes with grill covered. (Cooking without the lid could cause the rendering bacon fat to flare up 10.  Turn each popper, close grill, cook 5 minutes. 
11.  After this 5 minutes place poppers directly on grill, close grill lid (cook 3 minutes)
12. Turn and cook 3 more minutes

Total cook time is 16 minutes check frequently to make sure not burning