Make this last Friday and it is THE FUCKING BOMB!!!!!!!!!
Beef Cheeks with Pedro Ximenez
From Richard Cornish and Frank Camorra ‘s Movida Rustica
1.5 kh beef cheeks
125 ml olive oil
3 carrots, roughly chopped
1 garlic bulb, halved
1 brown onion, sliced
500 ml Pedro Ximenez Sherry
500 ml red wine
3 bay leaves
3 tablespoons fresh thyme leaves
1 teaspoon salt
1 head cauliflower, broken into florets
185 ml cream
40 grams butter
1.Trim the beef cheeks to neaten them up and remove any new sinew and silver skin. Season well.
2.Heat half the olive oil in a large heavy-based saucepan over high heat. Brown the beef cheeks for 2 minutes on each side, or until golden, then remove from the pan.
3.Add the remaining olive oil, then add the carrot, garlic, onion and saute over high heat for 12 to 15 minutes, or until well browned. Stir in the sherry, wine, bay leaves, thyme, sea salt and 500 ml water. Reduce the heat as low as possible, add the beef cheeks, then cover and cook for 3 to 4 hours, or until the cheeks are beginning to fall apart.
4.Meanwhile, put the cauliflower, cream and butter in a saucepan, season to taste with salt, then cover and cook over low heat for 35 minutes, or until very tender. Place the cauliflower mixture in a blender and process until smooth. Keep the puree warm.
5.The sauce from the beef cheeks should by now be reduced and glaze like. It if needs further reducing, remove the cheeks from the pan, cover with foil to keep them warm, and simmer the sauce over high heat until nicely reduced. Strain the sauce through a fine sieve and return to the pan; gently reheat the cheeks in the sauce if necessary.
6.Serve the cheeks and their sauce on warm plates with the cauliflower puree.
Changes: Added celery into the vege mix, just coz...cooked in slow cooker on low for 8 hours, them cheekies were so tender if you coughed to loudly they fell apart!
Highly highly recommend making this! Beef cheeks are pretty cheap, too, though sometimes a little hard to find, pre order them babies.
DO NOT substitute for a different kind of sherry, Pedro Ximenez is a variety/type of sherry, not a brand, and it's sticky and sweet and delicious...if you used bog standard dry cooking sherry, it'll probably taste like beef balls
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