How to slow cook meat

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 1 kg, you will need:

• 1 1 kg beef
• 2 1 carrot
• 3 1 shallot
• 4 2 bayleaves
• 5 2 leaves sage
• 6 1 garlic clove
• 7 500 ml red wine
• 8 salt
• 9 pepper
• Total weight: 1,720 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
45 min.	4 hours	4 hours 45 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Prepare 1 carrot and cut into small pieces. Prepare and chop 1 shallot. Crush 1 garlic clove with the blade of a knife.
2	Preheat the oven to 150°C (300°F). Give the meat the most basic of preparations: there is no need to try and remove all the skin or other bits, as these will be much easier to remove after cooking. Salt and pepper on each side.
3	Put the meat into a roasting bag. Add the carrot, shallot, garlic, sage and bay leaf.
4	Pour 500 ml red wine into the bag, seal it and place in an ovenproof dish. Cook in the oven for 4 hours (or longer).
5	When the time is up, take the meat out of the bag and finish removing any skin or bones left. You will see that these can be pulled off quite easily now.
6	Break the meat up into pieces the size that you want.
7	You can keep the cooking juices, strain and reduce them to make a tasty sauce.

Remarks

If you do not have a roasting bag, you can use a casserole dish or stew-pot with a lid.
For the meat, choose a cheap cut, like braising steak (chuck or blade) or shoulder.

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