Minced Beef Curry
Tuesday, November 19, 2024The great thing about curry is the wide variety of flavours: this recipe with minced beef and garden peas goes well with a mild curry. Spicy, warming, nutritious and simply delicious--a must for cold days. Serve it with steamed rice, naan, noodles or potatoes. Besides garden peas, you can also use Brussel sprouts, spinach or winter squashes.
Beef Short Ribs with Maple Pumpkin Puree and Pangrattato
Friday, November 08, 2024Tuck into this glorious cut of braised beef ribs, resting atop a mountain of creamy pumpkin pureé and pangrattato. It's truly the ultimate comfort food for winter.
Pangrattato is an Italian condiment used to take your dishes to the next level! They are breadcrumbs which have been seasoned and toasted to bring some crunch and texture to dishes such as pastas, vegetables and other dishes. Traditionally, it's made using stale bread, garlic, herbs, and olive oil. I have used ground pork rind instead to make the recipe lowcarb-friendly.
Ras El Hanout Beef Ribs with Onions
Thursday, October 10, 2024The key to meltingly tender and juicy beef ribs in the oven is allowing them to low and slow bake at 150C/300F for about 4 hours. Use other spice blends, like garam masala or baharat, if you don't have ras el hanout. You can also replace some of onions with carrots and mushrooms if desired. Serve with a vegetable gratin or a root vegetable mash if you ain't on keto.
Pan Seared Steak in Garlic Butter Mustard Sauce
Tuesday, October 08, 2024An easy and delicious recipe for pan seared steak with a pan sauce made with shallot, garlic, fresh herbs, mustard and butter. It's buttery, restaurant-worthy and works with all cuts of steak.
Steak strips are first marinated with a mixture of soya sauce, olive oil, and choulula, then quickly seared in a skillet. The brown bits providing the basis for the most delish pan sauce ever.
40-Clove Garlic Beef Brisket
Thursday, October 03, 2024This beautiful beef brisket dish is a variation of my favorite chicken recipe with 40 cloves of garlic. I left out the alcohol here and just used homemade beef broth. It turned out so tender and moist. Instead of thyme, you can also use rosemary. The brisket tastes even better the next day because there's more time for the flavors to develop and it gets more tender as it sits. Make this a day or two ahead and refrigerate. Skim off any fat before reheating, covered, in the oven or on top of the stove.
Beef Short Rib Rendang
Tuesday, September 24, 2024Rendang is a popular dish made with meat (usually beef but sometimes chicken or mutton) stewed in coconut milk and spices such as ginger, chilli, galangal, lemongrass, garlic, shallot or/and onion, kaffir lime leaves and turmeric. It is believed to originate from West Sumatra, Indonesia, by the Minangkabau people, the dish is commonly found in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. It is usually served with rice and steamed greens. You can add some toasted desiccated coconut flakes to help thicken the sauce if you prefer it an even drier stew.
Steak Tagliata with Black Olive and Parmesan Dressing
Tuesday, August 06, 2024One of Italy's most popular ways to prepare steak--Tagliata which gets its name from the Italian verb tagliare, meaning 'to cut or slice'. It's perfect for any steak night dinner. Steak tagliata usually calls for sirloin, aka rump or flank, but I much prefer the texture and flavour of fatty ribeye. Traditionally, it's prepared on a grill, but you can easily make this with a grill pan or just a regular skillet.
Meatloaf Gugelhupf
Thursday, July 25, 2024This bacon-covered meatloaf with feta cheese is made with a blend of pork and beef and cooked in an unusual kugelhupf pan. It is so flavourful and juicy and great as a warm starter or as a main course with salads, or vegetables. The bacon adds savory saltiness, smokiness and crunch on top and help retain the moisture. Keto or not, this upgraded meatloaf will be a huge hit with everyone who enjoys comfort food. If desired, boil the accumulated juice with 120 ml cream to make a gravy if desired.
Keto Beef Stroganoff
Saturday, July 06, 2024This keto-friendly beef Stroganoff is made with sliced ribeye steak (rump or sirloin are great too), homemade beef stock, brown mushrooms and crème fraîche. I like the richness of crème fraîche, use sour cream if you prefer. It's quick, easy and perfect for a tasty midweek meal. Garnish with chopped fresh herbs and enjoy it on it’s own, with cauliflower rice or with egg noodles, rice or bread if you ain't on the keto.
Asian Beef Short Ribs
Tuesday, June 18, 2024An easy and delicious oven-braised stew recipe for succulent, juicy Asian beef short ribs, flavoured with lots of ginger, garlic, gluten-free soya sauce, Szechuan peppers and Chinese Shaoxing rice wine. Perfect for a comforting family meal served with some steamed rice or your favourite starchy side and stir-fried vegetables.
Beef Ribs Bourguignon
Sunday, May 05, 2024Beef bourguignon (aka beef Burgundy) is a traditional French dish of slow cooked beef in a red wine sauce, with pearl onions, button mushrooms and bacon lardons. It's traditionally named from the Burgundy region in France, where it originated. It’s cooked until the meat is falling apart, and the wine-rich gravy thickens slightly to coat the meat.
This version from Colin Fassnidge via DELICIOUS uses the same beef bourguignon flavour on beef short ribs to upgrade this timeless stew. Beef ribs Bourguignon is always better the next day or even a few days later. It really needs time to mature and have the flavours marry together. Serve with some crusty bread to mop up all the sauce or over some creamy polenta or mashed potatoes, and of course a glass of red Burgundy!
Bobotie South African Casserole
Tuesday, February 13, 2024Bobotie (pronounced ba-boor-tea) is a much-loved casserole with curried ground beef at the bottom and a thin layer of egg custard on top, that originated in South Africa in the 17th century. Bobotie is recognized as South Africa's national dish. With spice influences introduced by the Cape Malay community, who are descendants of Indonesia and Malaysia.
For bobotie, a mixture is first prepared from beef mince, onion, ginger and garlic, then flavoured with curry paste, numerous spices, sultanas, and sweet mango chutney for a delicious finish, before being filled into a casserole dish, poured with custard cream and baked in the oven until golden and crispy. The result should be a balance between spicy and sweet with a fruity note.
Oxtail Stew
Tuesday, January 02, 2024A wonderfully rich, savory, and comforting slow-cooked, well-seasoned oxtail paired with brandy tomato sauce makes a cozy and warming winter meal and an ideal energy source for a Ketogenic, Carnivore, or Ketovore ways of eating. Oxtails contain a ton of collagen and benefits from long, slow cooking (at least 3 hours), but will reward you with a deep, hearty and flavourful winter stew.
After browning the oxtails in an ovenproof skillet, there's little else to do than let them simmer in the oven with tomatoes, celery, spices, stock and brandy for about 4 hours until fork tender. So be patient. Use less stock or reduce the sauce longer if you prefer a thicker stew.