by silverfox » 30 Jun 2020, 17:55
My recipe....
Beef in Metaxa Sauce
Ingredients
Made 2 very large portions!
Approx 500g Beef Braising Steak. (You can use skirt, flank or shin beef)
Salt & Black Pepper
Olive Oil
2 Knorr beef stock pots
2 sticks of celery (chopped roughly)
2 large carrots (chopped roughly)
1 medium onion (sliced)
3 Garlic cloves (bashed but left whole)
Mushrooms (2/3 of punnet) (sliced)
White Rice
Fennel Seeds
Orzo Pasta
Cornflour
3 Star Metaxa
Knob of butter
Cyprus Potatoes (chipped) Maris Pipers are good alternative.
Method
1. Heat a tablespoon of Olive Oil in a pan until just smoking, season beef on one side with salt and black pepper and brown quickly seasoned side down for approx 1 minute. Season top side and turn over to brown other side. Take out beef and add sliced onions and fry until just showing a little colour)
2. In a heavy crockpot or casserole dish add the celery, carrots, onions and garlic. Add the beef and cover with enough of mixed stock to cover the beef well. Add a small amount of Metaxa and place in a pre-heated oven at 150°c for approx 3 hours or until the beef is very tender and falling apart. Rest the beef for a few minutes before serving.
3. In the meantime, fry chips, cook rice and Orzo pasta as per packet instructions. I put a few teaspoons of fennel seeds in my rice for taste. Mix rice and Orzo together.
4. Ladle some of the stock from the pot into a frying pan leaving behind all the veg apart from the mushrooms and reduce slightly before adding the Metaxa to taste and adding any more seasoning before using a little cornflour, mixed with water, to slightly thicken the sauce. Just before serving add a knob of butter to add a sheen to the sauce.
Serve and enjoy!