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Braised Beef Cheeks with Pan Fried Gnocchi
Recipe by Tracy Collins
Make your own gnocchi with beef cheeks in a wine, fennel and tomato sauce.
- Steps
- Ingredients
Steps
- Preheat oven to 200C.
- To cook the beef cheeks, place olive oil in a flame proof casserole dish and set over high heat. Add beef cheeks and cook until browned. Add wine and cook for a minute to cook off alcohol. Add stock and bring to a simmer, reduce heat to low, cover and allow to simmer until beef cheeks are very soft, about 2 hours. Remove from heat. Remove beef from stock and shred. Set aside.
- To make the sauce, place oil in a saucepan and set over high heat. Add the lamb bones, roughly chopped carrot, onion, garlic, celery and roughly chopped fennel and cook until caramelised. Add 600 ml water, thyme, parsley, peppercorns and salt and allow to simmer for 30 minutes. Remove from heat and strain into a clean saucepan. Add the diced carrot, fennel and white wine and allow to simmer until tender, about 10 minutes. Add butter, parmesan cheese and tomato and stir to combine. Remove from heat and set aside.
- To make the garlic puree, place the garlic cloves on an oven tray, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Place in the oven to cook until soft, about 15 minutes. Remove from oven, peel garlic and pass through a sieve into a bowl. Set aside.
- To make the gnocchi, place potatoes and enough water to cover in a saucepan and set over high heat. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are very soft. Remove from heat and pass potatoes through a sieve into a bowl to mash. Add flour, egg and salt and stir until just combined. Turn out onto a floured surface and roll into a 4 cm diameter log. Cut log, using a floured, serrated knife, into 1.5 cm slices to form gnocchi.
- Bring a saucepan of salted water to a boil over high heat. Add gnocchi and cook until they float to the surface. Remove from boiling water and place in a bowl of iced water. Once cool, remove from water and drain on paper towel.
- Place butter in a frypan and set over medium heat. Once melted add gnocchi and cook until slightly golden, about 4 minutes.
- Place sauce over medium heat. Add shredded beef cheeks and gnocchi and cook until heated through.
- To serve, divide gnocchi between plates. Garnish with garlic puree, finely chopped parsley, fennel fronds and parmesan cheese.
