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Reversed braised beef shoulder sweet pickle glaze

Reversed braised beef shoulder sweet pickle glaze

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Reversed braised beef shoulder sweet pickle glaze Recipe, serves six 1 3 lb (1. 36kg) beef chuck roast 2 shallots 2 jalape os vinegar (you'll need 1-2 cups, 236-473mL) sugar (maybe a quarter cup, 50g) oil salt pepper mustard salad greens (maybe 100g per person) Cut the roast into a few thick steaks (with the meat fibers running up and down instead of side to side. Just cut it into big pieces that are easy for you to handle they'll break apart into smaller chunks as you cook. Coat them in oil and a very generous seasoning of salt and pepper it should seem like there's a little too much salt on them. Lightly brown the meat in a big pan. Pour in enough water to almost cover the meat, cover the pan with a lid or foil, get the heat to a gentle simmer and cook until the meat is almost falling apart I did about five hours. While you're waiting, you can cut the shallots and peppers into thin slices, put them in a bowl and nearly cover them with vinegar. Stir in a big handful of sugar (don't worry if it doesn't all dissolve immediately, cover and refrigerate. They'll taste like pickles in about a half hour, but longer is better up to a week. Gently fish the meat out of the pan, breaking it up as little as possible, and let the pieces dry/steam-off on paper towels for a few minutes. If there's still a lot of water in the pan, you could turn up the heat and reduce the liquid down a little bit now, but stop before it starts thickening into a glaze. Pour the liquid into a narrow vessel (a glass or measuring cup, holding back any gross chunks at the bottom of the pan. When the meat is dry and has stopped steaming, transfer it off the paper towels, cover it and put it into the refrigerator. Cover the liquid and refrigerate that as well. (You can do all of this first-thing the morning of dinner, or days before) Chill until the meat is firm and the fat on top of the braising liquid has gone totally solid. When you're ready to actually make dinner, take the liquid out and lift the fat puck off the top. You could use that fat to re-sear the meat later, but make sure you scrape off any trace of broth or meat bits clinging to the bottom of the puck. (Any remaining water in the fat will spit as you heat it up to searing temperature) Alternatively you could just throw the fat away, or you could melt it and use it as the oil in the salad dressing you're about to make. Pour the de-fatted broth into a pan and pour in about half of the accumulated juice from your bowl of sweet pickles. Bring to a boil and reduce to a glaze, keeping in mind that it'll thicken a lot more as it cools to eating temperature. (This would be a good time to prep your salad greens) Be sure to stir it frequently once it starts to really thicken the sugar is liable to stick to the bottom of the pan and burn. Turn the heat off and let the glaze just sit in the warm pan until you need it. Make a vinaigrette for your salad by mixing more of your sweet pickle juice with a little mustard and however much oil you like I do equal parts pickle juice and olive oil. In a wide pan, heat a thick film of oil (or your rendered beef fat, assuming you got all the watery stuff scraped off of it) over moderate heat. Take your cold beef out of the fridge, tear off a little chunk and taste for seasoning. (If it seems to need more salt, you could season the pieces, or your could season the glaze) Lay the pieces in the hot oil and brown them gently on both sides until golden and the interior of the meat feels soft and reheated. Take the pan off the heat and the meat can sit in there for a few minutes while you get your plates ready and dress your salad (if you want to dress it in advance. Plate each portion of drained meat with some salad and drained pickles. Either spoon the glaze over the meat at the last second or serve it in a little cup on the side
Date: 2021-06-17

Comments and reviews: 10


It's a nice recipe Adam, but I can't help thinking it would be improved many fold by adding onions, garlic and other aromatics to the water you stewed the beef in. It would have dramatically improved your glaze and added wonderful flavours to your beef. You could have just chopped them up and stuck them in. For a man who has made one of the best vegetable soups on the internet, I would suggest you carry the lessons you learn in one style of cooking into all your cooking.
The best example of this I know is the italian/Indian dichotomy. People brown their meat when making a pasta sauce but don't when making a curry. Make a curry and brown your lamb, it takes it to another level.
I struggle to understand why we learn particular practices in one style of cooking and don't transfer them into all our cooking. Different cultures found different methods of producing beautiful food. Combine them and you get something unbelievable. I really do think you could be the best proponent of this.
Make a keema masala and brown your lamb like you would brown your beef for Bolognese. Add lamb or chicken hearts like you did. Or make a shin beef/chuck steak and stew it in the aromatics you would usually use. It takes it from good to sublime. I don't know anyone better who understands all these practices and is capable of amalgamating them. Your pizza video pales in comparison to the numbers you could get if you take this next step. It's not fusion in the way it has previously been described. It's genuine fusion.

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With respect to the fire, I think you could possibly try and boil off the water from the beef fat like you would do with clarifying butter (in a separate pan, before searing the meat, resulting in less splatter and less potential gas stove fires. Or, you could take a page from Adam's demi-glace video and make the liquid less reduced, resulting in a cleaner separation of fat and water.
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Just bought a pressure cooker, this recipe is perfect for it! Bit of advice though, for that initial sear, either remove the pot from the cooker and heat the pot up on a separate pan, or just get a separate pan out to sear it.
Reason being, the heating element on most pressure cookers doesn't get very hot, the meat won't sear well.

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Gas stoves are awesome but, I suppose they come with a bit of a learning curve. I have the same problem whenever I cook somewhere with an electric stove, tempature is harder to control quickly, things get hotter much quicker and I have on, many an occasion forgotten to remove my pan from the still very hot burner and burnt some food.
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probably won t read this, but for some reason your videos have been a key part in helping me making it through the pandemic. during the hardest, soul crushing times your videos seem to pop up on my feed and help getting me thinking about the simple things in life, like making food with good company.
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very interesting method! I like to do something similar when I do indoors barbecue cause I dont have a grill or smoker. cook the ribs or pork shoulder in a slow cooker, then I reduce the cooking liquid into a glaze and broil it on in the oven. i might try this pan fried method, reminds me a lot of carnitas
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Am I interpreting that right? 1400 calories for a day seems quite low for a man like Adam, especially if weight training. I have no idea how Noom works, so I'm making a complete snap judgement here with no context, but now I'm curious to check it out so. successful sponsored segment I guess?
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I had an idea to do this with boneless dark meat chicken - simmer in a stock or chicken soup for less than an hour, dry, and shallow-fry. My plating idea is with polenta and sauteed spinach, served with a rich beef and red wine glaze. I have yet to make it, but I will.
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Adam, the foodtuber That Guy Can Cook, the one with the refrigerator that we feel pity for, created a similar thing where he smoked the meat until tender and then seared it. I think yours is the more cook at home method whereas TGCC is more of you need a smoker.
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Sort of like I cook carnitas but beef and I should pay attention to the fibers. The pink inside is great, not something I would do with pork shoulder. I'm wondering about beef short ribs with this method. More fatty than Chuck. Admittedly much more expensive.
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