Daub of Beef Cayenne
DAUBE OF BEEF
With saffron risotto, gremolata and wild mushrooms...
Serves 4
Ingredients
600g trimmed ox cheek (cut into 30gmpices roughly)
1 chopped carrot
1 chopped onion
1 bulb garlic
1 pkt pancetta
Olive oil
1 btl red wine (full bodied)
Sprig thyme
Sprig rosemary
Salt & peppercorns
300ml Beef or veal stock
Spoonful sugar
1 bay leaf
METHOD
Season the beef in salt, in a hot pan colour the beef and colour the veg (carrot, onion & garlic) place in a casserole dish. Reduce the bottle of red wine until the sugar by half and pour over the casserole. Add the veal stock and bring to the boil, add herbs, 6 blk peppercorns and bay leaf to the casserole, cover with foil and braise in oven at 160? C for around 3 – 3 ½ hours until the meat is tender and melting.
Saffron risotto
100GMS Arborio rice
1 litre chicken stock
Pinch saffron
200mls white wine
2 shallots finely diced
1 garlic clove finely diced
1 knob butter
1 tablps olive oil
50g parmesan
Salt & pepper
METHOD
Firstly make the saffron stock. Add the saffron to the chicken stock and bring to the boil add salt (one teaspoon). Sweat the shallot and garlic in the oil and the butter until soft then add the rice; sweat this for 2 minutes until the grains are coated and slightly transparent. Turn the heat up and add the wine. Reduce the wine down until absorbed by the rice (if not the risotto will taste winey!) turn heat to medium and add stock ladle by ladle stirring all the time until the rice is tender but still holds its shape (should be creamy and starchy, add the butter and parmesan off the heat and stir in to emulsify.
Gremolata
1 garlic clove grated
1 lemon
50g chopped parsley Combine
1 deseeded & diced red chilli
100gm mixed mushrooms
Cook or sauté in butter for 1 min and season 80gms Spinach.
Cook in butter and season salt & pepper. Crisp pancetta under grill or in hot pan
To serve
Place cooked spinach on warmed plates, top with the beef daube, place saffron risotto to back of plate and sprinkle gremolata over the meat when sauced, top with wild mushrooms and crispy pancetta and serve immediately.
