Deer Roast with Potatoes and Carrots–meal 1

I love to cook up a big ol’ roast.  You can easily get three meals out of a roast.  Here is how.

First:  Find a large roast.  I used a deer roast that was approximately 10 pounds.

Second:  Get some potatoes. I used a 5 lb bag of potatoes, yukon gold.  I cut off any bad spots and eyes
                but left the skin on the potatoes.

Third:  Get some carrots. I normally use whole carrots and just cut off the tops and tails, but I didn’t
             have any of those in the house so I used a 2 pound bag of baby carrots. 

Now, since I use such a big roast and so many veggies, my roasts won’t fit in a crock pot anymore.  I love to do roasts in the crock pot, but not when I’m planning many meals from one.  So I have a big roaster pan that goes in my oven.  I place the roast in the center and spread the carrots and potatoes around it.  Now here’s the secret for deer.  Get some italian salad dressing/marinade and pour a bunch of it on that deer roast.  If I buy from the store I get the largest bottle and use it all!  I also have a really good recipe for a homemade italian that I will post later.  Cover the pan and place in the oven.

I put my roast in the oven at 7 in the morning and took it out at 1pm to eat lunch.  A roast this size needs a goodly amount of time to cook.  If it’s not done you can take the veggies out and cut the roast up some to get it to finish cooking a bit faster.  I did not remember to take pictures of the raw food or even the food in the pan but I did get pictures of it out on my table looking delicious!

The deer roast!
Yummy potatoes!
And the carrots!
The italian went really well with the vegetables as well.  I loved the taste of it.  Kids all loved it so will definitely be using it again.  I sometimes use a wine marinade on my lamb to help with the taste if it’s an old sheep. . . thinking this might work for buck deer as well, may have to try that sometime too.  Enjoy!

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18 Comments

  1. Myra Rzepa

    i have actually never had deer before.. i have always wanted to try it out but never new how to cook it( if there was a special way to cook it or not) now im really curious as to how it tastes i really wanna try it even more now cause it looks soo yummy!

  2. slogan1990

    This looks sooooo good! I have never tried deer!

  3. Jennifer Hiles

    Looks delicious! My husband is a big hunter so we always have lots of deer meat and I only know a few ways to prepare it so I appreciate the the recipe!

  4. Hermit Forall

    Thanks for the italian dressing tip. Deer is so gamey, but I hope this will help. I’ll try it out if we get a deer this hunting season!

  5. Christy Maurer

    Thanks! I think I will make that this weekend! We still have one roast left. Looks so good 🙂

  6. Brr23

    Looks absolutely amazing! Going to try this very very soon! Thank you very much for sharing this recipe with us!

  7. Alicia Ponce

    My family would this,-thanks for sharing recipe.

  8. Carolyn Colley

    this looks so good, thanks so much for sharing

  9. misty farmer

    I just got some deer in my freezer so this is gonna taste great!!

  10. Don

    Thanks for sharing, I’ve crave deer roast in the winter!!

  11. Elizabeth Copeland

    I have to make my roasts in the crock pot, or else they end up terrible. I need to remember to throw in the potatoes and carrots like you did. Thanks for the reminder!

    1. Erin S.

      It is definitely the faster way for me. Unfortunately, with our family growing my crockpot needs to grow bigger too!

  12. Scrappy Geek

    Ooh, I haven’t had deer meat in well over 15 years! I think it’s about time I hit up our hunting neighbors for some steaks — if I can talk the wifey into it that is (lol)

    1. Erin S.

      We LOVE deer meat. I think it’s best marinated, but a friend smokes his and I think we’re going to have to try that.

  13. Char W.

    This definitely brings back memories from when I was younger. People often take for granted how delicious venison is.

    1. Erin S.

      Oh love it! Especially the steaks marinated and on the grill.

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