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Elk Nutrition

Alberta Ranched Elk is tasty, lean, and luxurious. Many chefs use it as a feature ingredient to create elegant, high cuisine dishes. And when you substitute it into your favourite recipes at home, it also offers a healthier, organic alternative to traditional meats. Alberta Ranched Elk is an obvious choice for health-conscious, ethical consumers who want to enjoy the flavourful, tender taste of a naturally superior red meat.

Alberta Ranched Elk – The New Red Meat

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Delicious, heart-healthy, versatile and 100% natural!

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Cooking Tips

Whether you’re a professional chef, a seasoned master of your own kitchen or a beginning home cook, we know you’ll be pleased with the results of your creations when you use Alberta Ranched Elk.

  • It’s available in a wide variety of familiar cuts including ground meat, stewing meat, steaks, roasts and sausages. 

  • It can be sauteed, barbecued, roasted, or stewed.

  • As a lean, dark red meat with no marbling, it should be cooked either quickly on high heat or slow and low.

  • The key to retaining its natural juices when cooking is to sear it quickly on high heat to seal, and then finish as desired.

  • Alberta Ranched Elk is best when not cooked beyond the medium stage; going beyond won’t spoil its great flavour but may cook off some of the natural moisture in the meat.

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Nutrition

You don’t have to be a professional chef or nutritionist to realize that Alberta Ranched Elk offers a tasty, nutritional alternative to other meats. See for yourself why this lean meat should be part of your healthy diet. 

  • High in protein, iron and B vitamins.

  • Leaner and lower in cholesterol than beef, pork tenderloin and chicken breast (with skin).

  • Produced without antibiotics, growth stimulants, hormones or steroids.

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