Best 2 Fall Apart Tender Braised Topside Of Beef Recipes

FALL-APART-TENDER BRAISED TOPSIDE OF BEEF

Steps:

• Preheat slow cooker.
• Heat oil in a large pan (I find a wok is best), and carefully brown beef on all sides, turning with two wooden spoons. Transfer to a plate and set aside.
• Add the vegetables and garlic to the pan and, stirring regularly, cook for 5 mins until the onions are beginning to go soft.
• Transfer the vegetables to warmed crock pot and place the beef on top, push the beef down so it nestles among the vegetables.
• Dissolve the stock cube in the just boiled water, add the wine, oregano, mixed herbs and pepper.
• Pour over the beef, add the bay leaf and cover. Cook on auto for 8-10 hours or low for 10-12 hours.
• Once the beef is cooked, carefully remove from the crock pot and place on a warmed serving platter. Remove the vegetables with a slotted spoon and arrange around the beef. Cover and keep warm.
• For the gravy, ladle the liquid left in the crock pot into a saucepan, stir in the gravy granules and bring to the boil, simmer for 2 minutes.
• Serve with mashed potatoes and savoy cabbage.

FALLING APART BRAISED POT ROAST WITH VEGETABLES

Steps:

• Sear pot roast on both sides on high heat.
• Dice onion in large chunks.
• Cut carrots into thick rounds.
• Put can of tomatoes and juice in pot.
• Put tomatoes with liquid, onions and carrots back into pan you seared meat in, put meat on top of veggies, fill with 1/2 strength beef stock until it is 1/2 way up the side of the meat.
• Season lightly with salt/pepper.
• Add garlic.
• Cover pot.
• Set stove so it slowly simmers the pot - med-low to low.
• As it cooks, periodically check the liquid level, take some out if covering the meat more than half way, add some if less.
• After 3 hours, quartered the mushrooms, place them in the pot, rearrange the meat so the mushrooms are under the meat and liquid is halfway up the beef.
• Check flavor, add salt/pepper as needed - add a little water if flavor is too strong instead of stock.
• After 1.5 hours, cut the zucchini and summer squash into large chunks, place in pot, also rearrange meat so it is on top of the veg and liquid is halfway up the meat.
• During cooking, check liquid levels so the meat is not covered; causing a stewing effect instead of braising. Take liquid out and out into a container for when you need to add liquid later.
• Periodically baste meat with the liquid in the pot.
• Always leave pot covered or else meat will dry up.
• Full cooking time is 5 to 6+ hours, depending on how much you would like to cook it. I cook it until it can be torn apart with a fork and the meat is falling apart.