Slow roasted brined wing rib of beef
Prep
45 mins
Cook
2 hrs 30 mins
Servings
8
Difficulty
Hard
This is my go to recipe when I want to impress without spending hours in the kitchen. A gorgeous brined wing rib of beef, slow roasted until it's incredibly tender, comes together in just over two and a half hours from start to table. The brining process is wonderfully simple, infusing the meat with flavor while keeping it juicy, and rosemary not only adds wonderful depth but also contains compounds that may help with digestion and circulation. The beauty of this dish is that once it's in the oven, you can relax with a glass of wine while it does all the work. The result is restaurant quality beef with a rich, glossy gravy that'll have everyone asking for your secret.
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Ingredients
- 20 gramspack fresh rosemary
- 60 gramsfine sea salt
- 2½ tbspblack peppercorns(coarsely ground)
- 2½ kilosno. 1 dry aged beef wing rib joint (3-bone)(available from the meat service counter)
- 3onion(large onions, unpeeled)
- 4medium carrots
- 4celery(sticks)
- 1garlic bulbs(garlic bulb, halved widthways)
- 6star anise
- 170 gramspacks beef bone marrow
- 4 tbspplain flour
- 250 mlsclaret (or other full-bodied red wine)
- 1 litre/sfresh beef stock
- 1 tbspredcurrant jelly
- 1 tspenglish mustard(plus extra to serve)
- 1 tspmarmite
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Instructions
- 1
The night before, dry-brine the beef. Pick and finely chop the leaves from ½ the rosemary, reserving the stalks, then mix with the salt and black pepper. Put the beef in a non-reactive baking dish and coat evenly with the salt mixture (it won’t all stick but cover as much as possible). Chill, uncovered, overnight.
- 2
Remove the beef from the fridge 30 minutes before cooking. Preheat the oven to 140?C, gas mark 1. Roughly chop the vegetables and scatter in a large, deep roasting tin with the garlic, star anise, bone marrow and remaining rosemary, including the reserved stalks; season with 1 tsp of the beef brine. Use kitchen paper to wipe as much of the remaining brine as possible off the beef and pat dry. Place on top of the vegetables, ideally on a wire rack, and roast for 1 hour 20 minutes-1 hour 45 minutes, until the meat reaches 50?C in the centre (use a meat thermometer to test, checking regularly for the last 30 minutes).
- 3
As soon as the centre registers 50?C, turn the oven up to 240?C, gas mark 9. Cook for a final 5-15 minutes, until the meat is well-browned and cooked to your liking (test again with a thermometer) – it should reach medium-rare (55?C) after about 5 minutes, medium (60?C) after 10 minutes and medium-well done (65?C) after 15 minutes. Transfer the meat to a serving platter and rest, loosely covered with foil, for 45 minutes.
- 4
Reserve the garlic bulb to serve alongside the beef, if liked, then make the gravy. Put the roasting tin on the hob over a high heat. Stir in the flour and cook, whisking, for 3-4 minutes, until just starting to colour. Pour in the wine and boil rapidly, scraping the base of the pan, until thickened again. Add the stock, redcurrant jelly, mustard and Marmite. Bubble, whisking, for 2-3 minutes, before straining into a saucepan, pressing to extract as much juice as possible (discard the vegetables). Add any resting juices from the beef and simmer briskly for another 20 minutes or so, until thickened to your liking; season, if needed, and keep warm. Serve the beef with the gravy and some English mustard, if liked. To carve the beef, place it on its front edge and cut along the bones to remove them, then slice the meat.
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