These Clemengold Ostrich Fillets are just another way to prepare a locally sourced meat. ClemenGolds are similar to tangerines and mandarins. Use what is local to the region you live in.
When I posted my recipe for Ostrich Fillets with a Red Wine Jus there were a few questions as to where, what and how. So I thought I would share with you some interesting facts from the Ostrich South Africa Website.
- More than 65% of the world’s ostriches are being found in South Africa and South Africa also accounts for 80% of ostrich products in the world
- Oudtshoorn, in the Klein-Karoo (Southern Cape) is the ostrich capital of the world.
- Meat, is exported mainly to Europe.
- Because of the meat’s health characteristics ( almost no fat and cholesterol), it is a sought-after product.
Ostrich is a new addition to my kitchen. It is readily available in our supermarkets, but I have not really been enthused about it until I started treating it like game, instead of beef. If you do manage to find some, I hope you will buy the meat and try it.
Clemengold Ostrich Fillets
Ingredients
- 1 clemengold, juice only (you can use mandarin)
- 6 juniper berries, lightly crushed
- 1 cm root ginger, peeled and sliced
- 200 g ostrich fillets
- 15 g butter
Method
- make a marinade with the juice, juniper berries and ginger
- marinade the fillets for at least 20 minutes
- heat the butter in a frying pan and cook the ostrich for 2 minutes per side
- allow to rest while you reduce the marinade into a jus
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Yay, this looks great. (I am also cooking with juniper berries today, but with naartjie juice for the October First Sighting mailer.)
that sounds interesting!
Sounds delicious with the citrus and ginger flavours!
thanks 🙂
Another great ostrich fillet recipe Tandy!
Have a lovely day.
🙂 Mandy
thank you Mandy, and may your day be awesome as well 🙂
I love ostrich! I always buy beef-ostrich mince because it is lower in fat! This recipe sounds wonderful!
I should experiment some with the ostrich mince 🙂
Unless I grow them myself I am never going to find ostrich meat here, i had it is NZ though and it was good.. this recipe looks good too!
that would be something new to farm there! They are not friendly farm animals though 🙂
Hmm, didn’t know Italy used so much ostrich! And love the facts about ostrich–but oh no, now I have another question–what’s a clemengold?
Same question, what’s a clemengold? A citrus?
yup, a lovely sweet and juicy clementine 🙂
A clemengold is a South African grown clementine 🙂 I will blog more about them!
Oh, they sound delish! I love clementine, so an exotic (well, to me 😀 ) Clementine sounds even better!
thy are very juicy and seedless which is a bonus 🙂
Looks very interesting! We don’t eat ostrich here, I’ve never seen it in the stores at least.
it does not seem that America imports this 🙂