Despite being named a soup, it is more akin to a spaghetti dish. If preferred, top with Parmesan cheese and croutons when serving.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 6 hrs |
| Total Time: | 6 hrs 15 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 pounds deer chops (venison)
- 1 cup ketchup
- ½ cup water
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 (1 ounce) envelope dry onion soup mix
Instructions
- Thinly slice the deer chops and brown them in a heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Transfer the meat to a slow cooker. Mix in the ketchup, water, onion, brown sugar, and dry onion soup mix. Cook on LOW for 6 hours or until tender. If you want to cook it in a roaster, bake at 350 degrees F, for 1 hour.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 435 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 49 g |
| Cholesterol | 171 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 48 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 1353 mg |
| Sugars | 42 g |
| Fat | 5 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
The reason wild game is “gamey” is because it isn’t handled properly when it’s harvested. If you allow the meat time to hang in the proper conditions the so-called gamey taste naturally goes away. Greed and lack of understanding of how to respect and handle the meat has led to this. As for the recipe, we enjoyed it, thank you.
Oh, this is GOOD I will be making this again!!!
Loved it!!! Baked for 1 hour…. Delicious sauce like eating spareribs!
I made this in an Instant Pot. It turned out amazing! I didn’t change much; I added a little extra water to make sure there was enough liquid & I used Primal Kitchen unsweetened ketchup. I used thawed venison & cooked for 35 min in the Instant Pot (about an hour total). Will definitely be making again & again.
This was awesome. I didn’t change a thing – but I did cook it in the oven rather than slow cooker to save time for dinner.
My family loved !
So yummy! My kids loved it!
After reading most of the reviews, I did make a few changes. I used a little less brown sugar but more ketchup and water to make more gravy. I also added a pinch of pepper, 2 cloves of minced garlic, 1 T of Worcestershire sauce and 8 ounces of fresh mushrooms. After it was done, I thickened the sauce with a little corn starch in water. It turned out great. We served it with mashed potatoes and corn on the cob. My husband and I absolutely loved it!! He is a hunter and we eat venison on a regular basis.
kept the chops whole and slow cooked them for 5 hours, this recipe is awesome
I’m married to an avid deer hunter (and have a generous father-in-law deer hunter). So venison shows up at least once or twice a week in my meal planning. I’m always looking for simple recipes to fix instead of roasts and fried steaks. This dish is definitely going into my keeper recipes. Like a lot of others, I took a couple shortcuts. I used sliced backstrap that was thawed just enough to get the pack off. It went straight into my slow cooker, bypassing the pan fried stage. I was also out of onion soup mix. The first result of a quick Google led me to a make-your-own version that I had all the ingredients for on my spice shelf. I also added a small can of chopped mushrooms, just because, and a tad bit of beef boullion. (I worried that the amount of ketchup would make it wangy, but it doesn’t.) I set my slow cooker to high and it was ready to devour in 3.5 hours. I spooned it on top of some instant potatoes with some garlic bread (the fancy kind made from light bread, butter, and powder 😉 ). Super-simple, but so hearty and it absolutely tasted like a gourmet meal. I loved it and so did my mountain-man husband. Thanks so much for sharing your recipe for this.
I love venison, but the chops are my least favorite cut. I usually marinade and grill them and they are “ok”. I made this recipe in my instant pot and the sauce is delicious. The meat was tender but not amazingly tender. Might have needed to leave in instant pot longer, but it was tender enough. I will definitely use this as my first recipe for deer chops going forward. My wife and stepson who do not are much for venison both ate seconds of this.
This is a great recipe. I read some of the reviews so we skipped the brown sugar. We didn’t need it. We will make this again.
Very Good! I did make bit of an adjustment #1; I did not brown in a skillet #2; I added a 1/4 t. of pepper flakes,we like a bit of zing. All went in slow cooker and 6hrs later,poured it over rice. Amazing !
This was excellent. Deer chops are not my favorite cut, because they taste metallic and are a little tougher. This was so amazing. I did it in my instant pot though. Sauted the meat with garlic, since I didn’t have an onion, and pressure cooked it for 30 minutes. It turned out perfectly. I added some Worcestershire sauce as well, but just a splash. I served it over white rice, but other people have mentioned egg noodles, and I bet that would be awesome.
I think I would add some mushrooms and broccoli too.
Tried it in oven, an hour was a bit too much. Meat was dry. Will not try this dish again.
added 6 potatoes sliced and and 1 pd of carrots and fresh garlic, and this recipe turned out great. The wife doesn’t care for venison but she really likes this recipes. Great over rice or noodles. With added ingredients serves 6 to 8 easily. Very good.
My family absolutely loved this dish. It would even go good as a pulled venison sandwich – which my family suggested for the next time I make this dish. Easy to make.
Just as described, a little sweet but tasty on big flat noodles.
I made this for my son exactly to the recipe and he loved it. Thank you to the person who provided the recipe.
This is a favorite in our house hold. It’s delicious over mashed potatoes!