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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsForget Potatoes. Beef Cheek Is the Irish Staple You're Not Making
https://gearpatrol.com/2020/04/16/the-irish-cookbook-beef-cheeks-recipe/The humble potato is as Irish as a pint of Guinness. But the Michelin-starred chef and restauranteur JP McMahon, notes in his The Irish Cookbook ($35) that the potatos association to Ireland only came about within the last 200 years. Missing from the history of Ireland and its cuisine are thousands of years of foraging and cultivating the land for its native provisions. McMahons cookbook contains 480 recipes that utilize the bounties of the countrys land. From seafood to wild game, these recipes take a look at Irish recipes of yore, with a nod towards the future of Irelands culinary scene. The recipe for beef cheeks, published below, is a braise made with shelf stable vegetables and an uncommon cut of beef.
Beef Cheeks with Barley and Onions
Serves four
Ingredients:
For the beef cheeks:
4 beef cheeks, cap removed and trimmed of sinew
2 tablespoons canola oil
4 carrots, chopped
2 onions, quartered
2 cloves garlic
4 tablespoons butter
A few sprigs of rosemary and thyme
2 cups stout
For the barley and onions:
2 cups beef stock
2 1/2 cups barley
2 onions, halved, skin on
4 tablespoons butter, cubed
sea salt
Preparation:
1. Preheat the oven to 325°F.
2. To braise the beef cheeks, season the cheeks with sea salt. Heat the oil in a large frying pan, add the cheeks and fry for 1-2 minutes on each side until nicely browned. Add the carrots, onions and garlic. After a minute, add the butter and herbs and baste for 2-3 minutes until the vegetables are caramelized.
3. Transfer to an ovenproof dish and discard any excess fat. Pour the stout and stock over the cheeks until completely submerged. Cover the dish with a lid or aluminum foil and put into the preheated oven for 3 hours.
4. Meanwhile, simmer the barley in a large pan of water over a low heat for 40 minutes until tender. Strain and reserve. Strain the sauce from the cheeks and carrots and keep them warm. Allow the fat to settle and skim it off the top. Heat the sauce in a pan over a high heat for about 15 minutes until reduced by half.
5. Put the onions in a dry pan over a mediumlow heat and cook for 1820 minutes until soft to touch and the edges are blackened. Peel into individual pieces, keeping the lobes intact. Remove any large charred pieces.
6. When ready to serve, melt the butter in the barley and season with sea salt to taste. Spoon the barley over the plates and add the charred onions. Slice the beef cheeks and lay near the onions. Finish with some sauce.
Note: The cheeks can also be cooked in a lower oven at 250°F for 5 hours for a more tender meat.
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Forget Potatoes. Beef Cheek Is the Irish Staple You're Not Making (Original Post)
Celerity
Apr 2020
OP
Overall sounds like a fine recipe, but can I have mine with ... I dunno ... brisket maybe? nt
mr_lebowski
Apr 2020
#2
Looks good but since I've had an aversion to cooked carrots from my childhood you want mine?
abqtommy
Apr 2020
#3
oh yes, I LOVE carrots, cooked, raw, pureed, any way they can be had, I adore Bajan carrot rum punch
Celerity
Apr 2020
#6
Yikes. Cheek meat. I know a lot of things are way different if prepared correctly
captain queeg
Apr 2020
#4
The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)1. That Sounds Excellent, Ma'am
Could probably be made to work well with beef short ribs.
It would be pretty hard to lay hands on beef cheeks anywhere we shop.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)2. Overall sounds like a fine recipe, but can I have mine with ... I dunno ... brisket maybe? nt
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)3. Looks good but since I've had an aversion to cooked carrots from my childhood you want mine?
Celerity
(43,285 posts)6. oh yes, I LOVE carrots, cooked, raw, pureed, any way they can be had, I adore Bajan carrot rum punch
captain queeg
(10,156 posts)4. Yikes. Cheek meat. I know a lot of things are way different if prepared correctly
But if I was going to try this Id rather not know where the meat came from. Ive tried a lot of things back in my butcher days and even hamburger made from cheek meat. Kind of hard to describe; watery or something. Cooking a long time at low heat would probably help but I think theyd still be chewy.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)5. I've never heard of beef cheek.
This looks pretty good, though, except for the garlic which I hate. I'd leave that out.
Celerity
(43,285 posts)7. these are so many ways to cook them, they are a really versatile budget cut
I am half West Indian, so grew up eating tripe, oxtail, cow cod soup (bull penis), etc etc. in London and back in Bim when I summered there, lolol