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How to slow cook meat

By cooking meat slowly with no added fat, it will become very tender - almost melt-in-the-mouth - and can be cut with a fork.

108,6144.6/5 for 22 ratings

Last modified on: November 6^th 2011

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: 1,717 grams

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How long does it take?

Time required for this recipe:

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

Keeping: Several days in the fridge in a sealed container.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 25 min.

How to slow cook meat : Photo of step #1

Prepare 1 carrot and cut into small pieces.

Prepare and chop 1 shallot.

Crush 1 garlic clove with the blade of a knife.

Stage 2 - 2 min.

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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.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

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Put the meat into a roasting bag. Add the carrot, shallot, garlic, sage and bay leaf.

Stage 4 - 4 hours

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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).

Stage 5 - 10 min.

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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.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

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Break the meat up into pieces the size that you want.

Stage 7

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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.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,000 Kcal or 12,560 Kj	172 gr	21 gr	200 gr
150 %	66 %	2 %	30 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
175 Kcal or 733 Kj	10 gr	1 gr	12 gr
9 %	4 %	<1 %	2 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 kg : 11.37 €

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Source

Home made.

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	Bayleaf: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Small ratatouille with , Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes, Courgettes (zuchinis) , Oxtail Parmentier, Beef braised in reduced red wine, ... All
	Sage: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Courgettes (zuchinis) , Pork roast with herbs, Two-stage beef chuck , Potatoes with bacon and herbs, Upside-down Parmentier, ... All

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