Braised Beef Cheeks | Pak Choi Bacon Mash | Port Wine Sauce
Ingredients | Beef Cheeks
1.8kg beef cheeks
600g onion, peeled and sliced
400g carrot, peeled and sliced
60g garlic
600g celery, sliced
100ml olive oil
Salt and grated pepper
35g thyme
220g leek, sliced
500ml plum wine
500ml port wine
2liter demi glace sauce
1liter chicken broth
Ingredients | Parsley Bacon Mash Potato
1kg potato mash
150g bacon
150g onion peeled and sliced
20g garlic
10ml olive oil
60g fresh parsley
500g sweetbread (see separate recipe)
Rocket leaves
Ingredients | Sweetbread
500g veal sweetbread, cooked
150g panko bread crumbs
150g flour
3 eggs
Method | Beef Cheeks
Take the beef cheeks take them and fry them in a hot pan until they are brown. Take them out and add the carrots, celery, leek and the onions. Fry them in a hot pan for around 5-8 minutes. Then add the garlic and the thyme and fry everything for 2 more minutes and then finally add the beef cheeks. Add the plum- and the port wine, the chicken stock as well as the demi-glace and braise everything slowly for 2 hours until the cheeks are soft and tender. Afterwards take the beef cheeks carefully out of the sauce and pass the sauce through a fine sieve. Season it carefully with salt and pepper and put the sauce back on the stove to reduce it. After the sauce has been reduced add the beef cheeks and keep it warm.
For the potato mash, use 600g of cooked hot potatoes which are already mashed ready to use. Slice the bacon and fry it and then add the onions and the garlic. Add everything to the potato mash, season it and add the parsley at the end, keep it warm.
For the fried Sweetbread first cook the veal sweetbread only in water with a slight bit of seasoning for around 5-10 minutes. Afterwards cool them down, season them and then take flour, eggs and breadcrumbs and crumb them. Then put them in the deep fryer and fry them until they are golden brown.
Place everything on the plate as shown on the picture and finish the dish with a few rocket leaves.