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You can still enjoy your favourite, nostalgic, and reliable meals like beef stew. With a few tweaks, you can create a thick, silky, sweet dish without a carrot or flour in sight.
This is a simple recipe and is only as good as the ingredients you use. There’s no hiding here. It all boils down to choosing the best quality meat and homemade broth. You’ll be richly rewarded with a heart-warming dish that takes minutes to prepare, and the taste will be an everlasting memory.
I encourage you to embrace a freestyle way of cooking, and use this recipe as a guide. Don’t get too caught up in measuring things exactly — you can eyeball most things.
Cooking should be relaxing, unfussy and an opportunity for you to exercise your creativity. Don’t forget to taste as you go along, and use your intuition with flavours.
Trust your instinct, on whether it needs more of this, or more of that — cook to what you like!
Try to source higher welfare meat that has been properly aged. As always, we recommend building a relationship with your butcher, so that they can source the best meat possible for you.
Seek out dry aged meat, as this will have the most flavour and less moisture. Avoid ‘wet’ beef that is pale in colour. In the supermarket, at the meat counter, you might be lucky enough to come across the dark, dried up meat that’s marked right down — I’m letting you in on a secret, this is the good stuff! Waitrose are one of the best for selling dry aged meat, and you can buy great value off-cuts for stews— if it’s not available in your store, ask them about it.
If you can’t get your hands on dry aged meat, use the best you can and dry it in the fridge at home. Simply dry the meat off and place it on a rack, in a shallow dish to catch any blood. Put it in the fridge, away from other food and make sure air can circulate (don’t overfill the fridge). After a few days, the meat will become dark and dry.
Bon app! R
