American-style braised beef recipe
You can't do much better than sumptuous slow-cooked beef and this quick-to-prep braised beef makes for a tender dish with meat that falls off the fork. Cooked on a bed of root vegetables, you can file this one under cosy warming dinner.
See method- Serves 8
- 30 mins to prepare and 3 hours to cook
- 457 calories / serving
- Freezable
Ingredients
- 3 large carrots, each cut crosswise into 3 pieces
- 3 medium swedes, quartered
- 2 large onions, quartered
- 2kg beef brisket
- salt
- pepper
- 2tbsp vegetable oil
- 12oz dark beer
- 2tbsp brown sugar
- ¼tsp ground cinnamon
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- Energy
- 1920kJ 457.0kcal
- Fat
- 18g
- Saturates
- 7g
- Salt
- 0.6g
- Sugars
- 13g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 14.4gProtein 54.1gFibre 3.9g
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- Place carrots, turnips and onions in a 5- to 6-quart slow cooker. Sprinkle beef with 1 teaspoon of the salt and ¼ teaspoon of the pepper. Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat until hot.
- Cook beef 6 to 9 minutes or until browned, turning once. Place over vegetables in slow cooker.
- Bring the beer, brown sugar and cinnamon to a simmer in same skillet over medium-high heat, stirring to scrape up any browned bits from bottom of skillet. Stir in remaining ½tsp salt and ¼tsp pepper. Pour over beef.
- Cook, covered, on low for 3 hours or until meat is very tender when pierced with fork.
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