Last week, I tried Bison meat for the first time in this Bison chili. This week, I was visiting Prescott, Arizona with some friends and we stopped by for lunch at the Raven Cafe. I was curious to see on the menu an open-faced Elk burger on rye so I tried it out.
Elk is the second largest member of the deer family. Because elk is not a large-scale farm meat, it is typically free-range, and free of hormones and additives
The Elk burger was tasty! If no one had told me, I would have thought I was eating regular beef...although the elk burger did have a slight gamey taste to it but not too bad.
As you can see the burger was covered in gravy and onions which can make anything taste better, but I scraped off as much of the gravy as I could to get to the meat. I'd like to try an experiment and make a bison and elk meatloaf.
Some of the health benefits of elk meat include:
- High protein: One 3 oz. portion has 94 calories with 19.5 g of protein
- Low fat: One 3 oz. portion has 1.2 g of fat
- Contains more monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fat than beef
- Elk also has a higher iron and zinc content than beef and pork
