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Beef Shoulder Braised with Onion and Garlic
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Beef Shoulder Braised with Onion and Garlic

Tender, juicy beef shoulder slow-cooked in red wine and onion sauce until perfectly soft

⏱ 4 hr 20 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Israeli👩‍🍳 Afoona

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Preheat the oven to 160°C (320°F).
    ⚙ Preheating the OvenOven
    💡Put things in the oven only once it's reached temperature, after the heating light has gone off: an oven that hasn't reached temperature changes baking times, and the bake burns outside or stays underbaked.
  2. 2
    Heat the olive oil in an ovenproof pot and brown the meat on all sides, until deeply browned. Transfer it to a plate.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveCast-iron pot
    💡What you brown (meat, patties, schnitzel) goes into hot oil: in lukewarm oil it soaks it up and comes out greasy. For onion and garlic that you soften, oil heated over medium or low heat is enough; do not wait for it to smoke.
  3. 3
    Fry the onion and garlic cloves in the oil in the pot 5 minutes, until they soften, and add the carrot.
    Stove
  4. 4
    Pour the wine and water into the pot, scrape up what's stuck to the bottom, and return the meat with the bay leaves. Add the paprika, soy sauce, salt and black pepper.
    Stove
  5. 5
    Cover the pot and bake 3–4 hours, until the meat is very tender.
    OvenCast-iron pot
  6. 6
    Strain the sauce. Serve the meat with mashed potatoes and the sauce.
1014calories
85 gprotein
13 gcarbs
60 gfat
● protein 37%● carbs 6%● fat 58%

Per serving (724 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (3) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Oven · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Toaster oven (Fits one small pan; good for small batches) · Air fryer (Small batches only, no runny batters) · Pot (Only for covered stews on the stovetop, no browning on top)
  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Cast-iron pot · Also works: Pot (Holds less heat, burns on the bottom) · Glass / ovenproof baking dish (In the oven, covered with foil)

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