Braised Beef in Red Wine Sauce
- Ready In:
- 5hrs 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 3 lbs beef eye round
- 1⁄2 cup olive oil
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 1 slice thick bacon, chopped
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- 6 bay leaves
- 4 whole cloves
- 1⁄2 teaspoon crumbled rosemary
- 1 (750 ml) bottle dry red wine
- 6 cups low sodium beef broth
- 1 (1 lb) can italian tomato, drained and chopped
- pan fried polenta
- spinach, sauteed in
- olive oil
directions
- Season beef (lightly if using salted broth).
- Heat oil in large Dutch oven over high heat.
- Add beef and brown on all sides, about 15 minutes.
- Transfer beef to platter; reduce heat to medium.
- Add onion and bacon to pot.
- Sauté until onion is golden, about 8 minutes.
- Mix in tomato paste, bay leaves, cloves and rosemary.
- Add wine.
- Return meat and any juices.
- Cover and simmer 30 minutes, turning meat once.
- M ix stock and tomatoes into sauce.
- Cover and simmer gently until meat is tender, turning occasionally, about 2 hours and 45 minutes.
- Transfer beef to platter.
- Cover with foil to keep warm.
- Strain sauce through fine sieve, pressing on solids.
- Degrease sauce.
- Return sauce to pot.
- Boil until reduced to 2 cups, about 1 hour.
- Add any beef juices from platter.
- Cut beef across grain into 1/3 inch slices (can be prepared 1 day ahead. Rewarm gently before serving).
- Arrange meat slices on a platter lined with pan-fried polenta and spoon sauce over.
- Serve sautéed spinach alongside.
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I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
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What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.