Braised ox cheeks on celery-potato puree

Name: Braised ox cheeks on celery-potato puree
Cook time: 4 h 30 min
Total time: 4 h 30 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 4 Onions; 1 kg Celeriac; 4 ready-to-cook ox cheeks (approx. 350 g each; order in advance from the butcher); 7-10 Tbsp salt and pepper; 3 TABLESPOONS Oil; 1 TABLESPOON Tomato paste; 125 ml Port wine; 1 kg Potatoes; 750 g Carrots; 4 TABLESPOONS Butter; 200 ml Milk; 7-10 Tbsp Nutmeg; 2 TABLESPOONS Sugar

AUTHOR
Andrew Gay

DIFFICULTY
very easy

RATING

Very slowly the cheeks want to simmer in port wine. Then the meat turns into a buttery delicacy and the sauce into concentrated flavour

COOK TIME
270 mins

TOTAL TIME
270 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 6

4 Onions
1 kg Celeriac
4 ready-to-cook ox cheeks (approx. 350 g each; order in advance from the butcher)
7-10 Tbsp salt and pepper
3 TABLESPOONS Oil
1 TABLESPOON Tomato paste
125 ml Port wine
1 kg Potatoes
750 g Carrots
4 TABLESPOONS Butter
200 ml Milk
7-10 Tbsp Nutmeg
2 TABLESPOONS Sugar

Directions

1
Peel and chop the onions. Celery peel, wash and cut into large cubes. Dab ox cheeks dry, season with salt and pepper. Heat the oil in a frying pan. Fry the meat in it for about 5 minutes. Take out. Fry the onions and half of the celery in hot frying fat for about 2 minutes. Add tomato paste and sweat briefly. Deglaze with port wine and about 500 ml water. Bring to the boil, add ox cheeks and braise covered in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 160 °C/circulating air: 140 °C/gas: see manufacturer) for about 4 hours.
2
Peel, wash and cut the potatoes into large pieces. Boil potatoes and the rest of the celery in salted water for about 20 minutes. Peel, wash and slice carrots.
3
Drain the potatoes and celery. Add 3 tablespoons of butter and milk. Mash everything to fine puree. Season to taste with salt and nutmeg. Heat 1 tablespoon butter in a frying pan. Sauté carrots in it. Sprinkle with sugar and let it caramelize slightly. Season with salt and pepper. Add almost 100 ml water, bring to the boil, cover and simmer for about 8 minutes.
4
Lift the ox cheeks out of the sauce. Bring the sauce to the boil and reduce for about 5 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Cut open the cheeks and arrange everything.