Beef bouillon with polenta dumplings and snow peas

AUTHOR
Rachel Vazquez
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 2
COOK TIME
135 mins
TOTAL TIME
135 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 2 Slices of beef legs (300 g each)
  • 1 collar Soup Greens
  • 1 medium onion
  • 1 Bay leaf
  • 3 Cloves
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 6 black peppercorns
  • 25 g Butter or margarine
  • 100 g Polenta (corn semolina)
  • 100 g Double cream cream cheese
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 7-10 Tbsp black pepper
  • 7-10 Tbsp possibly 1-2 tablespoons breadcrumbs
  • 200 g Sweet peas
  • 1 pinch Sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Chervil

Directions

  1. 1

    Wash the meat. Clean, peel and wash soup greens. Cut into pieces. Peel and halve the onion and fry it in a large pot without fat for about 5 minutes on the cut surface until dark.

  2. 2

    Add 2 litres of water, bay leaf, cloves, some salt and peppercorns to the pot, bring to the boil. Add soup vegetables and meat. Simmer over medium heat for about 2 hours. In the meantime, skim off any remaining foam with a skimmer.

  3. 3

    For the polenta dumplings melt the fat in a pot. Fry the polenta briefly in it. Add 200 ml water and simmer for 5 minutes at low heat, stirring continuously. Remove from heat. Stir in cream cheese and egg.

  4. 4

    Season to taste with salt and pepper. Boil up plenty of salted water. Use 2 teaspoons of the mixture to cut off the cams and slide them into the water. Let it simmer for 3-5 minutes in the boiling water.

  5. 5

    (If the dumpling falls apart, mix in 1-2 tablespoons of breadcrumbs). Lift out with a skimmer and allow to drain. Wash, clean and chop the sugar snap peas.

  6. 6

    Remove the meat from the stock and let it cool down a little. Pour stock through a fine sieve. Heat again and season with salt and sugar. Add mangetout to the hot stock and cook for 4-6 minutes.

  7. 7

    Cut the meat into small cubes. Add the meat and dumplings to the bouillon and heat up briefly. Serve garnished with chervil.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
330 kcal
CARBS
23 g
FATS
18 g
PROTEINS
20 g

Categories & Tags

Appetizer