Slow Cooked Beef Ragù with Sweet Red Wine over Pasta
Author/ Συγγραφέας: Katerina
Recipe type/ Τύπος Πιάτου: Main Course
Cuisine/ Κουζίνα: Mediterranean
Serves: 4
- 1 kilo/ 2 pounds beef cut in cubes
- 1 onion, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 3 carrots, cut in thick slices
- 250 gr. / 9 oz. white mushrooms, sliced
- 1 cup Mavrodafni sweet red wine, or any other wine you have available
- 2 tbsp double concentrated tomato paste
- ⅔ cup beef stock
- ⅔ cup tomato juice
- 3 tomatoes, mashed in the blender
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 4 bay leaves
- Salt, pepper
- About 10 basil leaves chopped
- A bunch of parsley chopped
- Olive oil for sautéing
- In a large skillet pour three to four tbsp of olive oil and sauté the beef chunks in medium/high temperature.
- Remove and place them in the slow cooker.
- In the same skillet add some olive oil if necessary and sauté the onion, garlic, carrots and mushrooms for about 5 minutes.
- Pour the wine and continue to sauté until half of the wine’s quantity has evaporated.
- Turn off the heat and transfer them to the slow cooker’s vessel as well.
- Add all the rest of the ingredients in the slow cooker and with a ladle mix them to incorporate.
- Start the slow cooker at high for eight hours.
- After that time you beef is ready.
- You can eat it with pasta or mashed potatoes.
- In case you don’t have a slow cooker, you just follow the same procedure only you transfer everything to a deep pot and bring to boil.
- Lower heat to low and simmer for at least four hours.
- Check occasionally with a fork to see of the beef is tender.
Recipe by Culinary Flavors at https://www.culinaryflavors.gr/slow-cooked-beef-ragu-with-sweet-red-wine-over-pasta/
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