Sunday, January 30, 2011

Braised Beef Short Ribs, Beef Stroganoff, Catalan Beef Stew

Since I had a free weekend to cook, I decided to make Keller's Braised Beef Short Ribs. But since this dish is used in two other dishes, I decided to make a total of 3 dishes. Fun!

Braised Beef Short Ribs

Combining all the carrots, onions, leeks, thyme, and other things into a nice dutch oven.

Pour in the red wine.

And simmer it through - you'll get this nice glaze after most of the alcohol evaporates.

Lightly flour the meat and sear the sides.

Use a cheesecloth between the wine reduction and meat, pour in the beef stock, and stick the dutch oven in the oven for a few hours.

Ta-da! Braised beef... mmm.

Beef Stroganoff

Pretty mushrooms!

Chop some of the mushroom in a food processor and cook.

Making the creamy mushroom sauce!

After cooking the sauce, blend it to get a smooth consistency.

Fold some of the cooked mushroom slices (shown below) into the blended sauce.

The rest of the mushroom that weren't chopped gets cooked.

Searing chunks of the braised beef to use in the stroganoff!

Cooked and lightly buttered pappardelle - my new favorite pasta :9
Toss the pappardelle with the sauce, plate, and then top with cooked mushroom, beef cubes, parsley, and fleur de sel.

I'm updating this in class right now and it's 1pm...My mouth is salivating :( So hungry, haha.

Close-up!

Catalan Beef Stew

Pretty mise en place pictures.

Olives

Fennel bulbs

Fingerlings

Braised beef cubes

Super - pretty leeks

Blanch the leeks and fennel, and boil the fingerling with sachet.

Puree tomatoes with grater (Keller's technique) to use for the sofrito. Sofrito is a cooking base used for this beef stew and has onion, tomato, and garlic.

Cook the chopped onion in canola oil for about an hour until...
...it turns golden brown like this.

Add the tomato puree and cook for another hour, and then add the minced garlic.

Combine the blanched fennel, leeks, olives, cooked potato, beef cubs, sofrito, and juice from the braised beef dish, and cook.

And it'll look amazing like this! Plate with fennel leaves and fleur de sel.

Drool.

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