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Ingredients:

2 finely chopped onions

250g butter

500g sun-dried plums

150g sultanas

150g roasted pine nuts

1 slice of candied citrus

2 tablespoons of flour

For the Marinade:

1 stalk of celery, roughly chopped

1 carrot, roughly chopped

1 sprig of thyme

5 peppercorns

1 bay leaf

2 sage leaves

1 sprig of rosemary

1 little glass of grappa

2 bottle of red wine

1 onion, chopped in half

2 cloves of garlic

bunch of parsley

white wine vinegar

First you must wash the meat with the vinegar.  In a container: mix all the ingredients for the marinade with the wine.  Add a bit of salt and pepper to the mixture.  Marinate the meat for 48 hours.

Take the meat out of the marinade and dry it with a cloth and seal it in pan with vegetable oil. Add salt and pepper.

Chop two white onions and cook it with 250g of butter until they become golden. At this point, add some onion, carrot and celery from the marinade and keep it cooking.

Pass the marinade through a fine sieve and bring it to boil in a separate pan. Pass it through a sieve again.

Add the sealed meat to the vegetables and cook it for about 10 minutes. Add the flour to the stew, stirring it. Add the bouquet garni, the sultanas, pine nuts, sun-dried plums and the boiled marinate mixture. Bring it to boil again and simmer.

When the wild boar is cooked, take it out from the sauce. Reduce the liquid and blitz it, using a mixer.

2 eggs


100g breadcrumbs

2 tbsp wheat flour

½ tsp nutmeg teaspoon or 10 juniper berries

1 small onion, finely chopped

1 tbsp fresh thyme, chopped

50 ml whole milk

salt and freshly ground pepper


2-3 tbsp butter or frying

Serve with:

Lingonberry compote

Make the meatballs: in a bowl, mix together the minced wild boar, eggs, breadcrumbs, flour, nutmeg, thyme and onion and then mix in the milk. Season to taste a with salt and pepper, let the mixture rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4. Take the chilled meat mixture out of the refrigerator and use a spoon and your free hand to shape the meat mixture into small round balls.

Fry in butter in a frying pan until they are golden brown on all sides. Place in an ovenproof dish and finish in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.

Serve the meatballs and lingonberry compote.