What you need:
Two pounds ground venison or other big game
Two eggs
One teaspoon salt
One teaspoon black pepper
One medium onion – chopped fine
One cup Parmesan cheese – grated
One tablespoon dry parsley flakes
One clove minced garlic
Two cups shredded Mozzarella cheese
Two packages manicotti noodles
Sauce Recipe:
One (28 oz.) can chopped or diced tomatoes with juice
One (14 oz.) can tomato sauce
One medium onion chopped
Two cloves garlic – minced
One tablespoon black pepper
One to two oz. fresh sweet basil – chopped
Quarter cup olive oil
What you do:
Mix venison and next seven ingredients very well and set aside. Now prepare the sauce. Pour olive oil into pan and saute the onions and garlic. Now add the rest of the sauce ingredients and simmer for 25 minutes. Take the manicotti noodles and boil in lightly salted water for five minutes. Drain the noodles, rinse in cold water, drain and set aside. Vegetable spray a large baking dish and cover the bottom with a couple of ladles of sauce – enough to cover the bottom of dish. Now stuff the manicotti noodles with the meat mixture, being careful not to break them, and line them up in the baking dish. Ladle the rest of the sauce over the stuffed noodles, sprinkle the cheese over the top and bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes. Remove and serve family style.
