Wild Mushroom Cream Soup with Venison Dumplings

Creamy game soup with venison meatballs

The game soup with venison meatballs from Manufaktur U is a creamy, puréed soup made from a game stock of venison and stag bones, refined with red wine and cream. Not just an ordinary cream soup, but a ready-to-serve game specialty from a small, carefully selected artisanal producer.

Game soup with venison meatballs represents the most game-rich soup in the Manufaktur U range: a stock made from venison and stag bones as well as homemade-style vegetables is refined with red wine and cream and finely puréed, before small meatballs made from pork, beef, and venison mince complete the 400 ml can.

Gamey, velvety, and with distinct depth from red wine

As soon as you open the can, a powerful, slightly gamey scent rises up, while the soup gathers in the ladle in a dark beige-brown, velvety and entirely without visible pieces. Anyone who has ever ordered game dishes in a restaurant will immediately recognize this depth, even though here only a can is being opened.

The game stock provides a depth that an ordinary beef broth cannot reach, while the red wine and cream round off the edges. Gamey, velvety, robust – the venison meatballs add a distinct accent with their fine meat flavor in the otherwise smooth soup.

If you serve it at around 75 degrees, the game aroma unfolds most clearly, while the meatballs provide a little surprise with every bite.

Festively served in just a few minutes

The contents of the can are put into a pot and heated while stirring for a good 5 minutes until the game soup is quietly steaming and the scent of game stock and red wine fills the kitchen.

A few cranberries or a dollop of cream on top turn the soup into a small, festive appetizer, the kind you usually only get served on holidays. The 400 ml is enough as an appetizer for two, or as a small main course for one person when the days get shorter and the evenings colder outside.

Those who would like to continue trying the range will find the robust oxtail soup and the velvety cream soup with porcini mushrooms among the soups from Manufaktur U, both also suitable as a festive appetizer. Unopened, the can keeps for up to 2 years, without needing a refrigerator.

The most game-rich soup in the range

Behind this game soup is no large-scale kitchen, and certainly not our own: it is cooked for us by a small artisanal producer that Kerstin and Stephan Uhlenbusch selected for the Manufaktur U brand because they still prepare the game stock with patience instead of stretching it with concentrate.

Ingredients such as venison and stag bones are hand-picked, the meatballs are formed individually before everything is cooked in the slowly simmered stock and finely puréed – the production is an EC-certified artisanal process. The soup is naturally so robust that it manages entirely without flavor enhancers, even though game stock is otherwise often enhanced with strong additives.

The Manufaktur U range in our shop now counts ten soups, from pea soup with cured pork to this game soup – each one prepared by hand before being cooked in small batches. You can taste this difference from the very first spoonful, no matter which of the ten soups you choose to heat up next.