August 1st 2007
Beef Stew like thing with red wine
The ingredients:
1 lb boneless short ribs, cut into small chunks
3 white potatoes, cut into small chunks
1 medium yellow onion, finely diced
1 poblano pepper, quartered (initially)
.5 bottle white wine
8 oz can tomato sauce
large can diced tomatoes
half cup rice
salt
pepper
oregano
rosemary
olive oil
soy sauce
What to do:
Chop the onion and potatoes into small pieces. Heat the olive oil in a stainless steel pan. Season the potatoes with an appropriate amount of salt, pepper and oregano. Cook the potatoes and onions together until the onions caramelize, then add a dash or two of soy sauce, cooking on low heat for a minute or two, until the soy sauce is mostly taken up by the potatoes.
While all that was happening, the tomato ingredients should have been opened and put into a crockpot. Add the potato and onion mixture to the tomato ingredients, add some rosemary and put on the crockpot on low.
In the same pan that you cooked the onions and potatoes, add the beef, seasoned with salt and pepper. Sear two sides of each piece, then add the seared meat to the crockpot. While searing, add the quarted pepper to the pan in an open area, but do not add the pepper to the pot quite yet. Instead, continue cooking the pepper in the pan for one to two minutes per side, then add in the wine. Scrape the bottom of the pan to get all the accumulated brown goodness from it mixed into the wine. Simmer for 10-15 minutes, until the wine is somewhat reduced.
When it is easy to do so, cut the pepper into smaller pieces with a spatula. Add everything to the crockpot, and set it to high. Leave it alone for 2.5 hours.
Add the half cup of rice, reduce crockpot heat to low and walk away for an hour. Turn the crockpot to warm, walk away for 10 minutes, or until it has thickened nicely.
Serve. Enjoy.
Garlic bread would probably go well with this, just in case you wanted more carbs in your diet. Also, adding garlic to the crockpot with the onions and potatoes would probably not go amiss, but since I didn’t have any garlic on hand, I wouldn’t know for sure.
