Braised beef

AUTHOR
Andrew Gay
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 2
COOK TIME
150 mins
TOTAL TIME
150 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 150 ml Red wine
  • 2-3 TABLESPOONS Apfelkraut
  • 5 Cloves
  • 2 Bay leaves
  • 1.5 kg Leg of beef
  • 3 Federation Soup Greens
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 250 g Onions
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Oil
  • 1 pack of Dumpling powder, half and half
  • 30 g Butter or margarine
  • 1-2 TABLESPOONS dark sauce thickener
  • 7-10 Tbsp Freezer bag

Directions

  1. 1

    Mix red wine with apple cabbage. Put the meat in a freezer bag, add the red wine mixture, cloves and bay leaves. Marinate the meat for at least 6 hours, turning several times.

  2. 2

    Clean and wash the soup greens. Chop 2 carrots and 100 g leek and cook in some salted water for 5 minutes. Cut the rest of the vegetables into slices or into sticks. Drain the pre-cooked vegetables and let them cool down.

  3. 3

    Onions peel and in large cubes cut. Remove beef from the marinade, dab off, season with salt and pepper and fry in oil. Add the onion pieces, deglaze with 3/8 litres of water. Braise in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ gas: level 3) for about 1 hour.

  4. 4

    Add the marinade and cook for another 30-40 minutes. Stir the dumpling powder into 1/2 litre of cold water and let it swell for 10 minutes. Fold in pre-cooked vegetables, form 8 dumplings and cook in boiling salted water for 20 minutes.

  5. 5

    Fry the rest of the vegetables in the fat, add 100 ml of water and steam for 15-20 minutes. Put the roast stock through a sieve into a pot. Puree the stock, bring to the boil and thicken with sauce thickener. Season vegetables and sauce with salt and pepper.

  6. 6

    Arrange sliced roast with dumplings, vegetables and sauce.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
840 kcal
CARBS
55 g
FATS
28 g
PROTEINS
86 g

Categories & Tags

Main DishesheartyMeatBeef