Recipe Veal Sirloin Steak Sous Vide with Spicy Beef Rendang Sauce, Mashed Sweet Potato, Taro French Fries, Yam Chips & Sous Vide Carrot

Veal Sirloin Steak  Sous Vide with Rendang Curry Sauce, Served with Mashed Purple Sweet Potato, Taro French Fries and Sous Vide Carrot. The veal sirloin meat is packed with instant rendang spices paste and then vaccum packed in ziplock, slowly cooked until tender and succulent in a rice cooker pot waterbath in low temperature (around 57-58C) for 45-60 minutes, seared with blowtorch until the outside layer crusted and browned in both surface and then served with rendang gravy  sauce made from the liquid and spices on it’s ziplock bag.

Veal is the meat of young cattle (calves), in contrast to the beef from older cattle.  Veal is a gourmet ingredients and more expensive than beef from older cattle simply because it’s delicated and tender. I apreciate veal very much, my first veal recipe on my blog was a classic French dish Veal Teanderloin Escalopes, a thin sliced veal loin, lighly floured and fried with a little bit of butter then cooked with green peppercorn, stock and muchrooms. Because veal is lean or lower in fat than many meats, care must be taken in preparation to ensure that it does not become tough. Veal is often coated in preparation for frying or eaten with a sauce.

The veal steak cooked and served with spicy rendang sauce. Beef Rendang Daging Sapi is Indonesian dry curry dish made of cutlet of beef that slowly cooked for several hours in a spicy curry until the spices and the coconut cream darken, dried and caramelized. This is simply why Beef Rendang along with Nasi Goreng (Fried Rice) in one of the most popular Indonesian dish through out the world. CNN even established rendang as number one of from World’s 50 Most Delicious Foods’ list. So today i make beef  steak with rendang sauce, so it’s a sort of fusion of western cooking techniques with Indonesian traditional dish. If you’ve got lazy about making rendang sauce like i did, you can purchased the Indonesian beef rendang spice paste at Amazon, there are several brand, but i really love Kokita brand rendang spice paste. But if you really got the patience, you should made this homemade Authentic Indonesian Beef Rendang Sapice Paste Recipe.

Sous-vide steak is a gourmet restaurant  popular preparation now. Sous vide is French cooking technique, the food sealed in airtight plastic bags in a temperature-controlled water bath for longer than normal cooking times for up to 96 hours, in some cases; at an accurately regulated temperature much lower than normally used for cooking, typically around 50°C (131 F) to 60°C (140 F) for meats and higher for vegetables. I’ve been try to Black Angus Striploin Sous Vide and it turn out good, even tought cut of Beef Brisket Sous Vide created a tender and succulent meat. Sous vide also used to pasteurized egg, beef and other meat to made it save to be eaten raw without cooking it. I pasteurized my beef tenderloin to make Yukhoe (Raw Korean Seasoned Beef Steak Tartare with Asian Pear).

The sous vide veal steak got evenly medium rare pinkish color from edge to edge eventhough i’m using rice cooker waterbath and ziplock bag instead of vaccum machines for making it. Damn i love sous vide cooking technique ! i can imagine if i got the real thing. Eversince i marinated the veal with the instant rendang dry spice paste overnight, the spices penetrated the veal all the way through and it’s taste pretty damn good even eaten itself without the rendang spice paste gravy. The delicate and tender veal beef striploin is marinated and packed with spicy rendang sauce spice paste. The hot and spicy instant rendang sauce blend well into a stunning dish, i can trace the chili, ginger, garlic and shallots, cardamon, caramelized coconut milk and many more spices in the middle of the veal steak once i chew it out. I guess marinating the veal beef with the spices is a very important step for making rendang flavoured beef steak.

I served the rendang spiced veal steak with crispy deep fried yam or taro french fries. Beside, i also add Mashed Japanese Purple Sweet Potato and sweet potato chips. The baby carrot cooked sous vide method in 90°C waterbath, eversince my rice cooker can’t retain that kind of temperature hence i’m using my beer cooler, just like my previous recipe Sous Vide Eel Fillet.

Once you’ve purchased instant rendang spice paste, please read the instruction within the package, one sachet (60 grams) used to be seasoned 500 grams beef, so count yourself how much to season and marinade your beef steak. Watch the ammount of salt you’ve add to seasoned the veal steak because the rendang spice paste is quite salty. I marinade the veal sirloin steak ovenight in the fridge by putting it in a ziplock bag and then vaccum sealed it by submerging the ziplock bag in the water partially and then sealed it once the air is completely pushed out of the bag. I’m not adding any butter or oil into the beef steak because the instant rendang spice paste is already contain coconut cream.As usual, i’m using my old rice cooker for sous vide this veal sirloin steak for about 1 hour in 57°C. Rice cooker is a very cheap consistance tools to mantain the waterbath temperature. My rice cooker sous vide waterbath temperature was 56.6°C , but it’s actually fluctuated from 56 to 58°C if i didn’t put the lid on and lighly cover 2/3 of the metal pot mouth with alumunium foil. This is learning by doing things, if you had a thermometer, you can adjust the temperature to your preference in by covering the metal pot mouth with alumunium foil partially; the more you cover the pot, the temperature will be nearer to the maximum temperature. The heat source of my rice cooker is on the bottom of the metal pot, so the temperature in the bottom and the surface of the the water bath is different with about 0.5°C range, so it’s necessary to flip it every 20-30 minutes to made the sous vide steak evenly cooked. Do not forget to submerged the vaccum packed beef sirloin completely on the waterbath during the sous vide cooking, putting some weight may help.

Right after i sous vide the rendang spice marinated veal for 1 hour in 57°C  rice cooker waterbath, i take it out of the ziplock bag, drained a little bit and then seared it with blowtorch until the outside layer in both surface is slighly charred and browned.

Sorry guys, i had to make this teasing photograph of veal steak first cut, it’s evenly medium rare from edge to edge with delicious and charred outside layer and also very thin overcooked gray band mess. The veal steak is beautifully pink and very juicy eversince sous vide method is slow cooking process which the best wat to retain the moisture within the steak. Almost none of the moistutre loss during the sous vide method, there’s only flavour exchanced inside the vaccum packed ziplock bag.

Recipe Veal Sirloin Steak Sous Vide with Rendang Spice Paste Gravy Sauce:

Sous Vide Veal Steak Recipe :

• 1 Pounds (1/2 kg) veal sirloin steak (about 2 piece steak 250 grams each)
  
• Salt and pepper to taste*optional, (you may not using any salt if the rendang spice paste is quite salty)
  
• 1 Sachet Instant Rendang Spice Paste (about 60 grams), this is the Homemade Rendang Daging Spice Paste Recipe
• 2 tbsp butter*optional
  
• Ziplock plastic bag

For Serving: Sous Vide Carrot, Mashed Japanese Purple Sweet Potato, Deep FriedTaro French Fries

How to Make Sous Vide Beef Brisket Steak Using Rice Cooker:

• Season the veal striploin steak generously with rendang spice paste.
  
• Put the veal steak in the ziplock bag, (if using add the butter into the bag)
  
• Submerged the ziplock bag in the water partially to pushed the air out ouf it.
• Secure the ziplock seal once the air removed from the bag, let it sit in the fridge for at least 6 hours or ovenight.
  
• Place ziplock packed rendang seasoned beef sirloin veal steak  in the preheated rice cooker waterbath in 56-58°C for medium done steak (i’m using my rice cooker without the lid cover and i cover 2/3 of the pot mouth with alumunium foil)
• Let it sit in the waterbath for 1 hour, flip it every 20 minutes and put some weight to let the bag completely submerged.
• Take away the sous vide veal sirloin steak bag from the rice cooker waterbath, set aside until it reach room temperature
• Pop the veal sirloin steak out of the ziplock bag, set aside the liquid, keep it warm (you served it later as a sauce)
• Sear the sous vide veal sirloin steak until perfectly browned and charred using blow torch flames, let it rest for at least 5 minutes before served
  
• Served the rendang spices marinated veal sous vide steak with taro fries, sous vide carrot, mashed purple sweet potato and chips

Recipe Veal Rendang Gravy  Sauce:

• 1 tea spoonfull  all purpose flour
• All the liquid and remaining rendang spice paste in the sous vide ziplock bag
• 2 tbsp butter
• about 1 cup  veal/beef stock

How to Make Veal Brown Sauce or Gravy:

• Heat the butter in a heavy bottom sauce pan until melted, then add the flour
• Stir it and let is slighly bublly and slighly brown, lower the temperature then add the liquid and remaining rendang spice paste
  
• Stir it completely until no lump on it, bring it to boil and turn off the heat

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Sous-vide is French term for “under vacuum”, a method of cooking food sealed in airtight plastic bags in a water bathor in a temperature-controlled steam environment for longer than normal cooking times for up to 96 hours, in some cases; at an accurately regulated temperature much lower than normally used for cooking, typically around 40°C (104 F) t0 45°C (113 F) for fish,  50°C (131 F) to 60°C (140 F) for meats and higher for vegetables. I’ve been try to Sousvide Venison Steak, Black Angus Striploin Sous Vide and it turn out good, even tought cut of Beef Brisket Sous Vide created a tender and succulent meat. Sous vide method also used to pasteurized egg, beef and other meat to made it save to be eaten raw without cooking it. I pasteurized my beef tenderloin to make Yukhoe (Raw Korean Seasoned Beef Steak Tartare with Asian Pear).

Succulent Sous Vide Rolled Swamp Eel Fillet with 40°C Beer Cooler Waterbath

 

Beer Cooler Sous Vide Rolled Eel Fillet with Spanich Chorizo, Basil and Cheese Stuffing

My previously sousvide recipe using my old rice cooker, rice cooker is a very cheap consistance tools to mantain the waterbath temperature, but eversince the lowest temperature waterbath in my rice cooker metal pot is 51°C and it’s too high for sousvide fish fillet, hence i using my beer cooler for this sousvide eel fish fillet recipe. Beside beer cooler, any kind of heat insulating chamber is good to go; thermos, dewar flask or vacuum flask, as long the chamber is big enought to completely submerging the entire fish fillet and also to mantaining the temperature for extended periods of time. Fill up your beer cooler with water just a couple degrees higher than the temperature you’d like to cook your food at (to account for temperature loss when you add cold food to it), seal your food in a plastic ziplock bag, drop it in, and close your beer cooler until your food is cooked. You can simply adjust the temperature to your preference with hot water after the waterbath temperature drop about (1-2)°C after 1 hour soaking your fish fillet, that’s why it’s better you use a good insulating beer cooler. Yup, it is that simple!!!

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Swamp eel fish fillet got oily and delicate flavour, similiar to it’s cousin unagi eel with fins which  popular in Japanese restaurant, served as Sweet Soy Sauce Broiled Eel (Unagi Kabayaki). Swamp eel fillet texture is more succulent and firm compare to the unagi eel, but i wondering why swamp eel didn’t got much attention in fine dining restaurant menu. So today, i decided to bring the swamp eel to the next level of fine dining lover.

Cheap and Delicious Fine Dining Swamp Eel Fish Dish

Can you imagine all the ingredients on this plate of beautifull  fine dining eel fillet dish cost me about IDR 10.000 (less than 1 USD) for a single portion. Asian swamp eel is cheap and also available through out the year, especially in the rainy season from September to March, the stock of swamp eel reach the highest peak. The live asian swamp eel cost me only about 2 USD/Kg, pretty much a great deal because swamp eel is low in cholesterol and very rich in omega 6 and omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acid, which are extremely good for the body and hearth. Eversince this is sous vide eel fillet is cooked in low temperature, so i think most of the good fatty acid is retained after cooked.

Sous Vide  Eel Fillet Fillet Rollade with Spanich Chorizo, Basil and Cheese Stuffing, Served with Mashed Purple Sweet Potato  and Balsamic Reduction

Here in Indonesia, we used to called swamp eel as belut sawah or rice field eel, mostly prepared deep fried until crispy. The eel usually butterflied, flatened with meat hammer and then marinated with turmeric based seasoning before lighly batterred and deep fried into belut goreng. Other popular preparation of swamp eel is rendang belut, a thick and carmelized curry similiar to Indonesian Rendang Daging that using beef as the main ingredients.

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The entire components of the entire dish is quite a preparation; the sous vide saffron infused eel fish fillet rollade with Spanish chorizo, basil and cheese stuffing is  served  with mashed purple yam, sous vide baby carrot, Russian beluga caviar, micro greens herbs, edible black mustard flower, pine nuts, shaved Parmiggiano-Reggiano cheese, sliced grapes and balsamic reduction sauce

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The Asian marbled swamp eel, Monopterus albus, also known as belut sawah or rice field eel . The eel resemble a long scale-less snake with a very tiny blind eyes. Asian swamp eels are often found in the mud underneath a dried-up pond or rice field. For this recipe i’m using swamp eel weighted 300 grams, about 14 inches long and got a beutifull marble pattern on the skin. The eel butterflied from the back and the entire back bone, head and the end tail removed using a very sharp knives to make a nice incision. I’m using this pricey bad ass Japanese knives, i gotta listen and lern from my old man who said “man should purchased they pricey toys before getting hitched, sice it’s obviously getting even harder right after”, so as a obedient son, i purchased my mre than 100 USD worth chef knives right now, lol.

The Eel Fish Fillet Stuffed with Homemade Spanish Chorizo, Basil Leaves and Parmagianno Reggiano Cheese

The swamp eel fillet is cut into about 6 inches long (15 cm), dizzled with a little bit of kaffir lime juice, salt and pepper and then let it marinated for about 10 minutes in the refrigerator. The marinated swamp eel fish fillet then drained and patted dry then laid on a cutting board. Chopped basil, chopped Homemade Spanish Chorizo and Parmagianno Geggiano laid over it. The fish fillet then rolled over to cover the stuffing. The rolled and stuffed eel fillet then rolled on a genuine Spanish saffron to cover the skin side generously

Spanish Saffron Infused Rollade of Eel Fish Fillet

The Homemade Spanish Chorizo stuffed eel fish fillet then rolled and thighten with cling wrap plastic to make a nice cilllindrical form. I let the rolled eel fish fillet sit in the refrigerator for about 2 hours until it set and the saffron flavour infused into the fish fillet before it’s sous vide in beer cooler for about 1 hour. I put the eel fillet on a ziplock and add some generous glug of extra virgin olive oil, vaccum packed it with air replacing method by submerging the ziplock bag in the water and secure the silicone sealed after the air is completely pushed away. The ziplock packed eel fish fillet then submerged in preheated 42°C waterbath in a beer cooler (i assume the temperature will be drop to 40°C after the cold eel fish fillet ziplock bag added). I let the fish fillet sous vide for about 1 hour.

Broiled The Bottarga Crust with Blowtorch Flames

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Sous Vide Bottarga Crusted Saffron Infused Eel Fish Fillet with Spanish Chorizo, Basil and Cheese Stuffing  Recipe :

• 1 Pound (500 gr) live swamp eel, butterflied and filleted, cut into 15 cm long fillet
• 50 grams Homemade Spanish Chorizo
• 30 grams freshly grated Homemade Tuna Roe Bottarga di Tonno
• 10 grams fresh basil leaves, patted dry, roughly chopped
• 1 tbsp kaffir lime juice
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 30 ml extra virgin olive oil
  
• Ziplock plastic bag

Garnish : Black Mustard Blossoms, Micro Green Herbs and Micro Red Amaranth

How to Make Sous Vide Beef Brisket Steak Using Rice Cooker:

• Season the eel fillet  generously with kaffir lime juice, salt, and pepper,let it sit marinated in the fridge for at least 10 minutes.
• Patted dry the eel fish fillet then add spanich chorizo, basil leaves and cheese over it and then rolled the fillet
• Rolled the eel fish fillet on a genuine Spanish saffron unil it covering the eel skin generously
• Lay the eel fish fillet in a cling wrap plastic then rolled it over, thighen the end to make a nice cillindrical shape
• Let the is in the fridge for another 2 hours until set, cut the end then put it in a ziplock bag and then pour the olive oil
• Submerged the ziplock bag in the water partially to pushed the air out ouf it.
• Secure the ziplock seal once the air removed from the bag
• Place ziplock packed seasoned eel fillet  in the preheated beer cooler  waterbath in 42°C (i assume the temperature will drop to 40C after a coule minutes the eel fish added)
• Let it sit in the waterbath for 1 hours, put some weight to let the bag completely submerged.
• Take away the sous vide eel fish fillet bag from the beer cooler waterbath, set aside until it reach room temperature
• Pop out the sous vide eel fish fillet from the ziplock bag, patted dry a little bit
• Rolled the eel in  a grated homemade tuna bottarga then seared the bottarga crusted until slighly browned and toasted with blowtorch flames.
• Served the bottarga crusted eel fillet with chorizo, basil and cheese stuffing with mashed purple yam, sous vide baby carrot, beluga caviar, micro herbs, shaved Parmiggiano-Reggiano cheese, grapes and balsamic reduction sauce

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I’m not sure what kind of venison cut that i’m used for this recipe since i get it from my oldest big sister and she even didn’t noticed it. My sister purchased the game deer meat from the local fresh market in Sungai Lilin, South Sumatra, but she pretty sure that the venison cut from the deer hind quarter. I notices there’s a tought sinew in the middle of the venison meat, so i assume it’s considered to cooked it as a tought cut. My grandma said this is maybe the deer venison blade steak, i couldn’t agree more because there’s a sinew in the middle of it.

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Sous-vide is French term for “under vacuum”, a method of cooking food sealed in airtight plastic bags in a water bathor in a temperature-controlled steam environment for longer than normal cooking times for up to 96 hours, in some cases; at an accurately regulated temperature much lower than normally used for cooking, typically around 50°C (131 F) to 60°C (140 F) for meats and higher for vegetables. I’ve been try to Black Angus Striploin Sous Vide and it turn out good, even tought cut of Beef Brisket Sous Vide created a tender and succulent meat. Sous vide also used to pasteurized egg, beef and other meat to made it save to be eaten raw without cooking it. I pasteurized my beef tenderloin to make Yukhoe (Raw Korean Seasoned Beef Steak Tartare with Asian Pear).

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This is actually Sambar Deer meat (Cervus Unicolor), Sumatra island native large deer with large and rugged antlers with uniform brown to dark grey colour. Sambar deer meat is considered as delicacy and also healthy choice of meat because it high in protein and low in cholesterol and trans fat. I like the venison deer steak simply because i like it’s natural light gamey flavour. Deer meat and  antler is also believed had aphrodisiac effect, especially in chinese-Indonesian comunity. I’m not buying the myth actually, the liquor or arak that used to served withi it is had a vasodilatation effect that allow more blood enter the corpus cavernousa on Mr.P and let it stand just like on “the price is right” commercial, lol

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As usual, i’m using my old rice cooker for sous vide this venison, rice cooker is a very cheap consistance tools to mantain the waterbath temperature. As you can see from the photograph, my rice cooker sous vide waterbath temperature was 56.6°C , but it’s actually fluctuated from 56 to 58°C if i didn’t put the lid on and lighly cover 2/3 of the metal pot  mouth with alumunium foil. This is learning by doing things, if you had a thermometer, you can adjust the temperature of the rice cooker waterbath.

Sous Vide Venison Deer on Rice Cooker 56-58°C Waterbath for 36 Hours

If you think you can control the waterbath temperature in your rice cooker for sous vide, you’re wrong! You should notice the maximum temperature of your waterbath if you put the lid cover. Let the waterbath had a stable temperature for at least 10 minutes and note the temperature a.s.a.p before the temperature drop down slowly when you open the lid, then leave the rice cooker alone without it’s lid cover for another 20 to 30 minutes until it reached the constant temperature, note the temperature and it’s the lowest temperature of your waterbath, now you’ve got the range of your sous vide waterbath temperature. Mine was 51°C (without the lid) and 62°C (with the lid on). You can adjust the temperature to your preference in by covering the metal pot mouth with alumunium foil partially; the more you cover the pot, the temperature will be nearer to the maximum temperature. The heat source of my rice cooker is on the bottom of the metal pot, so the temperature in the bottom and the surface of the the water bath is different with about 0.5°C range, so it’s necessary to flip it every 20-30 minutes to made the sous vide steak evenly cooked. Do not forget to submerged the vaccum packed beef sirloin completely on the waterbath during the sous vide cooking, putting some weight may help.

Tender, Moist and Succulent Venison Deer Sous Vide Steak

Venison Deer Steak with Simple Gravy or Brown Sauce

I let the venison  sit in the rice cooker waterbath on 56-58°C for about 24 hours first, but when i open the ziplock bag i niticed the sinew is translucent but it’s still chewy so i put the bag back in the waterbath for futher 12 hours. So, the total period for sous vide the venison is 36 Hours. and don’t get hesitate to leave it longer in the waterbath because it’s not a single chance your venison deer meat will overcooked.

Greyish Pink Color, Due 24 Hours Delayed Searing Process ?

Tender and Succulent Sous Vide Venison Deer Steak

After the venison steak sit for 36 Hours sous vide in the 56-58°C waterbath, the venison is tender and succulent. The tough membranne that passing through is translucent and completely tender too. Unfortunatly, i almost forgotten and let the sous vide venison bag sit in the refrigerator for a day due to a hectic day. Before searing the venison steak, i should bring it the whole bag to room temperature first, so i submerged the bag on 40°C for about 30 minutes priorly to searing it in a skillet. After cut the venison steak, i  notice the color is greyish pink, i’m not sure why, maybe because i let it sit 24 hours in the refrigerator and the sous vide meat is oxidized because the ziplock bag is not vaccumed 100%. Fortunately, the texture and the juiciness of the venison steak sous vide is not afected.

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Recipe Venison Deer Steak Sous Vide with Gravy or Brown Sauce

Recipe Venison Deer Steak Sous Vide with Gravy or Brown Sauce:

Sous Vide Venison Steak Recipe :

• 1 Pounds (1/2 kg) venison blade steak
  
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 3 chili pepper, deseeded, roughly chopped
• 6 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
• 2 shallots, roughly chopped
• 2 tbsp butter
• Ziplock plastic bag

Garnish : Black Mustard Blossoms, Micro Green Herbs and Red Amaranth

How to Make Sous Vide Beef Brisket Steak Using Rice Cooker:

• Season the venison steak generously with salt, pepper, chili, garlic and shallots., set it sit in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
  
• Put the venison steak in the ziplock bag, then add the butter into it
• Submerged the ziplock bag in the water partially to pushed the air out ouf it.
• Secure the ziplock seal once the air removed from the bag
• Place ziplock packed seasoned venison steak in the preheated rice cooker waterbath in 56-58°C for medium done steak (i’m using my rice cooker without the lid cover and i cover 2/3 of the pot mouth with alumunium foil)
• Let it sit in the waterbath for 36 hours(until tender enough, loin cut need less time), flip it every 20 minutes and put some weight to let the bag completely submerged.
• Take away the sous vide venison steak bag from the rice cooker waterbath, set aside until it reach room temperature
• Pop the venison deer steak out of the ziplock bag, set aside the liquid, keep it warm (you served it later as a sauce)
• Heat up 1 tablespoon avocado oil in a skillet, sear the sous vide deer venison steak until perfectly browned for about 1 minute each side, set aside

Recipe Venison Gravy or Brown Sauce:

• 1 tsp  all purpose flour
• All the liquid and remaining garlic, shallots and chili in the sous vide ziplock bag
• 2 tbsp butter
• about 1 cup venison or beef stock

How to Make Venison Deer Brown Sauce or Gravy:

• Put all the liquid and remaining garlic, shallots and chili in a food processor and blend it until smooth, set aside
• Heat the butter in a heavy bottom sauce pan until melted, then add the flour
• Stir it and let is slighly bublly and slighly brown, lower the temperatur then add the mashed garlic, shallot and chili liquid and the stock into the saucepan
• Stir it completely until no lump on it, bring it to boil and turn off the heat

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Recipe 24 Hours Sousvide Beef Brisket Steak with Spicy Romesco Sauce with Grilled Chili Pepper and Pine Nuts

Recipe Beef Brisket Sousvide 24 Hours with Romesco Sauce. This post is one of my project to search the cheapest and tastiest cut of beef steak possibly  from a cheap beef cut with a slow and low temperature cooking method using rice cooker waterbath or sort of French sousvide method. Most of my steaks recipes post on DENTIST CHEF using premium beef cut, sure it will be tasty, tender and delicious if it’s cooked right way, but what about  the tough cut of beef with lower grade cut like “select’ or “choice”, is it possible to turn it as tender and tasty as the “prime” beef, well let’s see about it. My previous Sousvide Beef Sirloin Steak with Bone Marrow Crusted Recipe using  black  angus beef  and it’s definitely turn out good, but  today i choose the inexpensive beef brisket from Australian cattle beef with “choice” grade label and we’ll see how it turn.

This is the beef brisket which i used for this rice cooker sousvide cooking method, it’s labelled as “choice” grade with a minimum marble fat. Beef brisket got a long muscles fibers with minimal, unevenly distributed ammount of fat and lots of connective tissues with  a thick fat cap. The Australian beef brisket in this recipe is weighed about 2 pounds with 2 inches thickness. Beef brisket is the cut from the lower part of the  caattle breast or chest, eversince this is Australian beef, so the whole brisket is including the plate or middle beef belly, unfortunately, i’m not sure which cattle part of this beef brisket comes from.

Sous-vide is French term for “under vacuum”, a method of cooking food sealed in airtight plastic bags in a water bathor in a temperature-controlled steam environment for longer than normal cooking times for up to 96 hours, in some cases; at an accurately regulated temperature much lower than normally used for cooking, typically around 50°C (131 °F) to 60 °C (140 °F) for meats and higher for vegetables. Sous vide also used to pasteurized egg, beef and other meat to made it save to be eaten raw without cooking it. I pasteurized my beef tenderloin to make Yukhoe (Raw Korean Seasoned Beef Steak Tartare with Asian Pear).

Beef brisket is really tough cut, mostly used in slowcooking method to tenderize and transform the sinew, collagens, and connective tissues into melting tender gellatines. Brisket  muscles used for support the weight of the cattle once it walk around, that’s why it’s contain so many connectives tissues. So why sousvide beef brisket? that’s a good question; simply because i want to had a tender and moist piece of meat with a texture of medium done steak but  i’m not paying much dollar for purchasing premium grade beef steak.

The glorious about sousvide beef brisket is the meat is definitely tender and succulent, the gentle and constant low temperature heat is just enought for breaking down the meat without further boiling the moisture within it if you using traditional agressive heat cooking. The beef brisket is  vaccum sealed and that enviroment provide no moisture escaped from the meat to the waterbath  and vice versa; so the beefy flavour of the brisket is retained during the cooking. The texture of perfectly cooked fine prime cut  steak reached when the inexpensive “choice” grade beef brisket once it cooked for long period.

Well, all i can said to you if the tenderness of my 24 hours rice cooker waterbath beef brisket is similiar with prime steak, even it’s not as good as well marbled wagyu beef for sure, but i’m quite amazed how good the brisket texture. I tempted to prolonged the period of sousvide the beef brisket to 36 and 72 hours to research if it’s possible making the beef brisket even more tender, unfortunately i found the meat texture is turn into slighly mushy (losing the chewy meaty texture) eventhou the meat isn’t overcooked, so you can’t all the way tricked the premium grade beef steak just by prolonged sousvide cooking because it’s got the peak of it’s period and texture chart on sousvide cooking.  Why wouldn’t people raised expensive premium cattle in the first place if a cheap tought meat cut can beat the texture by sousvide method then ? ??

I mention before that this is sort of sousvide cooking using rice cooker as a heater to my waterbath, so no fancy equipments sousvide waterbath circulator and vaccum sealed pack machines involved.  Instead, this sort of sousvide method using amateur kitchen tools, eversince  i take care all the basic principles of sousvide on this recipe, the result is quite satisfying. The Australian beef brisket seasoned well with smoked paprika rubs and sealed with ziplock bag to ensure no moisture loss out of it. The waterbath only act to transfer heat evenly and slowly to the beef, lot’s of energy involved, but trust me, it’s worthed.

Since this is sort of-sousvide, the beef sirloin is vaccum packed with ziplock manually without any vaccum machine by simply submerged the ziplock package under water partially to pushed away the air. The ziplock package silicone seal then zipped once the air removed from the bad. This ziplock bag submerging method is quite efficient to pushed the air from the bag. Choose the heatproof and foodgrade ziplog with a good sealing quality, cheap ziplock bag may burst out while cooking and ruined your entire brisket batch.

My sort of sous vide using my old rice cooker, It was sitting on my garage and thanks God i didn’t yet throwing it away. I don’t used it anymore because the teflon layer on the metal pot the is already peeled away by time, but it’s pretty much optimum for constantly heating  my sousvide waterbath. As you can see from the photograph, my waterbath temperature was 56.6°C , but it’s actually fluctuated from 56 to 58°C if i didn’t put the lid on and lighly cover 2/3 of the metal pot  mouth with alumunium foil, just perfect temperature for sousvide beef brisket for medium done. This is learning by doing things, if you had a thermometer, you can adjust the temperature of the rice cooker waterbath. You should watch the maximum temperature of your waterbath if you put the lid cover for about 20 minutes and note the temperature a.s.a.p before the temperature drop down slowly when you open the lid, then leave the rice cooker alone without it’s lid cover for another 20 to 30 minutes until it reached the constant temperature, note the temperature and it pretty much the range of your sousvide waterbath temperature. Mine was 51°C (without the lid) and 62°C (with the lid on). You can adjust the temperature to your preference in by covering the metal pot mouth with alumunium foil partially; the more you cover the pot, the temperature will be nearer to the maximum temperature.  Glad that i remember about solution colligative properties back in highschool !!!

I let the beef brisket sit in the rice cooker waterbath for about 24 hours, don’t get hesitate to leave it longer in the waterbath because it’s not a single chance your beef will overcooked, but definitely no further than 30 hours or it turn into mushy. The heat source of my rice cooker is on the bottom of the metal pot, so the temperature in the bottom and the surface of the the water bath is different with about 0.5°C range, so it’s necessary to flip it every 20-30 minutes to made the sous vide steak evenly cooked. Do not forget to submerged the vaccum packed beef sirloin completely on the waterbath during the sous vide cooking, putting some weight may help.

This is what my beef brisket steak sousvide in 57°C for about 24 hours look a like, it’s definitely not fancy looking at all, but wait until you see what’s happen on the inside. The sous vide beef sirloin fat is tender and the meat part looks pale and greyish, totally unpleasant for my eyes.  The texture of the beef is still medium done bouchy with a little pinkish juice color in the middle. Note the very little ammount of juice running out of the steak, i guess it’s a good sign that not much moisture driven out during the low heat and slow cooking. I set aside the juice from the plastic bag and served it later with the beef brisket steak.

The sousvide beef brisket steak then seared in a sizzling and smoking hot pan until browned for about 2 and half minutes each side until the  surface had a nice brown color. A little ammount of avocado oil or other high smoke point oil added into the pan heated until smoking hot and then the fat cap of the brisket rendered first before searing the meat side. Now the seared sousvide beef brisket steak looks delicious, and i also observed that very little ammount of juice running out of it once i  resting it after pan fried.

Look out the sagital cut of sousvide beef brisket steak, it’s evenly cooked from edge to edge of the flesh, to exactly the doneness you want. The sous vide had perfectly throughout doneness, the meat has begun to turn pink and significantly firmer. Moisture loss is still minimal and the intramuscular connective tissues has began to render into translucent gelatine, making it taste juicier and more tender, but it also delivers savoury beefy flavor compounds to the tongue. Damn!!! this is the most tender and juicy beef brisket i had; the texture and  the doness is just like a fine steak. I even served the sousvide beef brisket for my big sister in the next day, i carved it into a 3/4 inch steak and seared both sides and my older sister though it was a premium grade beef steak.

This is Homemade Salsa Romesco Sauce, i paired the tender and succulent beef brisket with it. Romesco sauce or salsa  romensco is Spanish (Tarragona & Catalonia, Northeastern Spain) red pepper and  nuts pesto-based sauce. Originally, romesco sauce made of  toasted or roasted nuts (pine nuts, almonds, cashew or hazelnuts), garlic, olive or sunflower oil, bitxo peppers (similar to New Mexico chiles) and/or nyora peppers (a sun dried, small, round variety of red bell pepper).  Other common ingredients include roasted tomatoes, red wine vinegar and onions.

My homemade salsa romesco sauce made of toasted pine nuts, grilled chillies, grilled garlic and grilled tomatoes. Instead using sweet red bell pepper, i’m using red chili pepper for this recipe simply because i like my salsa romesco sauce hot and spicy. The charred and grilled chillies can be deseeded and washed with cold water to reduce the spiciness. I prefer to grilled the chilies, garlic and tomato over stove flames to  infused the smokey aromas on my romesco pesto sauce. Instead wine vinegar, i’m using a splash of aged balsamic vinegar to my romesco sauce to give a nice tangy and tar aftertaste.

Right after i grilled the chili and tomato until blistered, charred and slighly blackened, i throw it into icy water to make it’s skin easily to peeled off. I also grilled the garlic for this recipe, bu if you had a patience, sure you can make Homemade Roasted Galic for making the salsa romesco sauce and its taste better i think. I like my pine nuts and red chili pepper pesto romesco sauce eaten right away after made, but  some people like to sauteed it a little bit until bubbly but not dry out and i leave it to your own preference.

Now the realy fun part; the verdict for my unnecessary restaurant style plated beef brisket sousvide with spicy romesco sauce!!!

The beef brisket is tender, moist and  and had a meaty and chewy steak-like texture, i even can’t believe if this fine texture beef is made of cheap beef cut. The long meat fiber of beef brisket is easily sliced off once i carved it into half inch beef. The sliced 24 hours  sousvide beef brisket is very succulent and bouchy, not mushy at all, then i directly thinking myself that i’m gonna make sousvide beef shank for my next project.

If you had a gathering party with lots of guesses, sure i will reccommend this sousvide beef brisket recipe. Whole beef brisket usually weighted about 5 to 6 kg and it’s only cost you about 10 USD per kilo. One killogram beef brisket can served about 5 t0 6 people, definitely a great deal isn’t it???. Devide the beef brisket into 1 to 1.5 kg for each bag, seasoned and sousvide it for 24 hours and seared or barbequed it just before serving. One metal pot of rice cooker waterbath can hold 4 bags of 1 kg beef brisket and sure you need to flip the bags over to make the heat distributed evenly in the waterbath. Eversince it need at least 24 hours to slowly cooked the beef brisket, it means you need to prepare the beef at leat 2 day2 priorly; one day for thawing and marinating and the next day for sousvide.

Recipe Beef Brisket Sousvide with Spicy Salsa Romesco Sauce:

Sous Vide Beef Brisket Recipe :

• 2 Pounds (1 kg) beef brisket
  
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 sprig of rosemarry and thyme
• 1.5 tbsp smoked papprika powder
• 2 tbsp butter
• Ziplock plastic bag

How to Make Sous Vide Beef Brisket Steak Using Rice Cooker:

• Season the beef brisket generously with salt, pepper and smoked paprika powder, set aside
• Put the steak in the ziplock bag, then add the butter into it
• Submerged the ziplock bag in the water partially to pushed the air out ouf it
• Secure the ziplock seal once the air removed from the bag
• Place ziplock packed seasoned beef brisket in the preheated waterbath in 56-58°C for medium done steak (i’m using my rice cooker without the lid cover and i cover 2/3 of the pot mouth with alumunium foil)
• Let it sit in the waterbath for 24 hours, flip it every 20 minutes and put some weight to let the bag completely submerged.
• Take away the sousvide beef brisket bag from the rice cooker waterbath, set aside until it reach room temperature
• Pop the steak out of the ziplock bag, set aside the liquid, keep it warm (you served it later as a sauce)
• Heat up 1 tablespoon avocado oil in a skillet, sear the sousvide beef brisket until perfectly browned for about 1 minute each side, set aside

Recipe Spicy Salsa Romesco with Grilled Red Chili Pepper and Pine Nuts:

Ingredients

Servings: 1 1/2 cups

• 100 grams big red chili pepper, grilled until blistered and charred over stove flames, deseeded
•  1 bulbs garlic clove, grilled until blistered and charred over stove flames
• 1/2 cup pine nuts, toasted
• 1 large tomato, grilled blistered and until charred over stove flames
• 2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley
• a splash of aged balsamic vinegar
• 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
• salt and pepper to taste

Preparation

• Put the grilled chilies, tomato in cold ice waterbath and let it sit about 1 minute, then peeled off it’s skin
• Put all ingredients in food processor and pulse until fine then slowly add the olive oil with the motor running,  process until smooth. Season with salt and pepper
• Served the salsa romesco sauce with the 24 hours beef brisket sousvide

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The Bone marrow crust over the sousvide beef striploin steak consist of finely diced bone marrow, spices, herbs and bread crumbs. The fatty bone marrow extracted from the femur bone of the cattle, refrigerated until firm and then finely diced before mixed with other ingredients. The flated and chilled bone marrow crust then broiled until crisp and browned. The bone marrow fat is act as oil once it rendered and fried up the breadcrumbs mixture. The melted bone marrow fat had a nice beefy umami aromas, it also act as a sauce once the marrow fat broiled and rendered into oil, no need any butter added on it then.

Bone Marrow Crusted Steak with Sous Vide Black Angus Sirloin Beef

Bone Marrow Crusted Steak with Sous Vide Black Angus Sirloin Beef

Bone marrow crust over the sous vide black angus striploin steak is sounds tempting delicious for my taste buds. Beside giving flavour and aromas, the bone marrow also give a health benefit because it’s contains myeloid and lymphoid stem cells. The foundations for red and white blood cells, these cells build immunity, assist with blood clotting and help provide oxygen to cells. Beside, bone marrow also rich of collagen, the protein-rich substance that cooks down to gelatin, can also help repair the body. Collagen deficiency can lead to poor wound healing, easy bruising and bleeding gums. Collagen in bone marrow can help the body repair the wounded tissues.

Bone Marrow Crusted Steak with Sous Vide Black Angus Sirloin Beef

Bone Marrow Crusted Steak with Sous Vide Black Angus Sirloin Beef

I love bone marrow all the way, i even proudly said that i literrary grown up with it. My mom used to make a hearthy and comforting broth out of it and made it into Pindang Tulang (Hot and Sour Beef Bone Marrow Soup). I think that’s why beef bone marrow is a traditional ingredient in certain cuisines around the world.  Beef bone marrow is high in certain nutrients, but it is also high in fat, so be creative and use it properly because the large ammount of calories on it, so work your butt out  once you consume  it. A single  14 grams serving of beef bone marrow contains 125.59 calories, eversince beef bone marrow is so rich and high in fat, a serving is smaller than a serving of other common protein items such as steak or fish.

Bone Marrow Crusted Steak with Sous Vide Black Angus Sirloin Beef

Bone Marrow Crusted Steak with Sous Vide Black Angus Sirloin Beef

Trust me, you’ll gonna love this spicy bone marrow crusted beef steak because it’s irresistibly delicious. My sister even eat the crust first before digging the tender and moist slow cooked sousvide beef striploin steak. Eversince my sister and i love hot and spicy dish, i put some finely chopped deseeded bird eye chilies on it  too to give a nice kick.

Bone Marrow Crusted Steak with Sous Vide Black Angus Sirloin Beef

Enough for the bone marrow crust verdict, now were talking a sous vide beef steak method. Well, actually this is not the real fancy equipped sous vide method with sousvide waterbath circulator and vaccum sealed pack machine involved, instead this sort of sousvide method using amateur kitchen tools, but don;t worry, i take care all the basic principle of sousvide on this recipe. The black angus striploin beef seasoned well and sealed with ziplock bag to ensure no moisture loss out of it. The waterbath only act to transfer heat evenly and slowly to the beef steak. Why the heck of sousvide method??? it’s pricey and require lot’s of energy to do. The glorious of sousvide is about the very minimum ammout of moisture loose during the cooking, it create a very moist and tender steak, trust me, it’s worthed.

Sous-vide is French term for “under vacuum”, a method of cooking food sealed in airtight plastic bags in a water bath or in a temperature-controlled steam environment for longer than normal cooking times for up to 96 hours, in some cases; at an accurately regulated temperature much lower than normally used for cooking, typically around 50°C (131 °F) to 60 °C (140 °F) for meats and higher for vegetables. Sous vide also used to pasteurized egg, beef and other meat to made it save to be eaten raw without cooking it. I pasteurized my beef tenderloin to make Yukhoe (Raw Korean Seasoned Beef Steak Tartare with Asian Pear).

Submerging the Ziplock Bag Partially in Water to Pushed Out The Air

Since this is sort of-sousvide, the beef sirloin is vaccum packed with ziplock manually without any vaccum machine by simply submerged the ziplock package under water partially to pushed away the air. The ziplock package silicone seal then zipped once the air removed from the bad. This ziplock bag submerging method is quite efficient to pushed the air from the bag. Choose the heatproof and foodgrade ziplog with a good sealing quality, cheap ziplock bag may burst out while and ruined your entire pricey batch.

Sousvide Beef Sirloin Steak Using Rice Cooker Waterbath

I’m using my old rice cooker (warmer mode) for this sort of-sous vide cooking. As you can see from the photograph, my waterbath temperature was 59.1°C , but it’s actually fluctuated from 58-60°C if i put the lid on it, just perfect temperature for sousvide beef sirloin for medium done. I let the beef steak sit in the rice cooker waterbath for about 2 hours, don’t get hesitate to leave it longer int he waterbath because it’s not a single chance your steak will overcooked. The heat source of my rice cooker is on the bottom of the metal container, so the temperature in the bottom and the surface of the the water bath is different with about 0.5°C range, so it’s necessary to flip it every 20-30 minutes to made the sous vide steak evenly cooked. Do not forget to submerged the vaccum packed beef sirloin completely on the waterbath during the sous vide cooking, putting some weight may help.

Sous Vide Black Angus Sirloin Beef in 58°C for 2 Hours

This is what sirloin steak sousvide in 58°C for about 2 hours look a like, it’s definitely not fancy looking at all, but wait until you see what’s happen on the inside. The sous vide beef sirloin fat is tender and the meat part looks pale and greyish, totally unpleasant for my eyes.  The texture of the beef is still medium done bouchy with a little pinkish juice color in the middle. Note the very little ammount of juice running out of the steak, i guess it’s a good sign that not much moisture driven out during the low heat and slow cooking. I set aside the juice from the plastic bag and served it later with the steak.

Pan Seared Sous Vide Black Angus Sirloin Beef

Seared Sous Vide Black Angus Sirloin Beef

The sousvide sirloin steak then seared in a sizzling and smoking hot pan until browned for about 1 and half minutes each side until the  surface had a nice brown color. A little ammount of avocado oil or other high smoke point oil added into the pan heated until smoking hot and then the fat cap of the sirloin steak rendered first before searing the meat side. Now the seared sousvide striploin steak looks delicious, and i also observed that very little ammount of juice running out of it once i  resting it after pan fried. The striploin steak consist of  Longissimus Dorsi  (large part) and Longissimus Costarum (the small part) muscles, i cut the Longissimus Costarum to let you know what’s happen inside of the sous vide steak.

Evenly Cooked Sous Vide Black Angus Sirloin Beef from Edge to Edge

Look out the sagital cut of sousvide steak, it’s evenly cooked from edge to edge of the flesh, to exactly the doneness you want. The sous vide had perfectly throughout doneness, the meat has begun to turn pink and significantly firmer. Moisture loss is still minimal and the marbled  intramuscular fat has began to render, which not only lubricates the meat, making it taste juicier and more tender, but it also delivers fat-soluble flavor compounds to the tongue. My first verdict of it, damn!!! this is the most tender and juicy steak i ever had, cross my finger!!!!

Several Doneness Level on Common Grilled Steak From the Edge into the Middle

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Pat Dry The Lemon Basil Leaves for The Bone Marrow Crust

Now were making the bone marrow and herbs crust for the steak, while the steak is slowly cooked int he rice warmer waterbath, shall we begin to prepare the herbs for the bone marrow crust. The dryness of the ingredients is the key of making perfectly crispy crust. Any remaining moisture can made a diaster and ruined the crust layer and turn it into soggy and mushy disaster. Completely drained and carefully pat dry the fresh green herbs ingredients; the basil and chives, with kitchen towel first after you washed it with running tab water. You can use dried herbs instead, but the color isn’t as favoured as the fresh herbs.

Spicy Herbs & Spices for Bone Marrow Crust; Chilies, Garlic, Shallots, Chives, Lemon Basil & Lemongrass

Pat Dry the Spices and Herbs After Chopped To Remove the Excess Moisture

I infused the crusted layer for the steak with fresh lemongrass, onion, garlic, chilies, lemon basil leaves and garlic chives. All the ingredients is finely chopped, i suggest to pat it dry further more with kitchen towel. Please do it carefully, make sure you absorb the excess moisture of it before mixed with breadcrumbs and bone marrow.

Spicy Bone Marrow Crust Mixture

Flaten Spicy Bone Marrow Crust Mixture

The bone marrow extracted from the bone then put it in the freezer until frozen, finely diced and mixed it quicly with the breadcrumbs and the the chopped mixed herbs. The bone marrow crust mixture then spreaded over a plastic film, rolled until had an even thickness and  sufficient to cover the beef steak. The bone marrow and herbs crust then transfered into freezer once more until firm and ready to use.

Firm Spicy Bone Marrow Crust Mixture over Seared Sousvide Beef Sirloin Steak

Spicy Bone Marrow Crust Mixture Totally Cover The Seared Sousvide Black Angus Beef Striploin

The firm chilled bone marrow crust placed over the seared beef steak and then broiled in the preheated oven using the high heat about 250°C for about 3 minutes and then lower the temperature to 200°C for another 5-7 minutes until the bone marrow crust browned and crispy.  You can adjust the position of the crust in the oven to let the bone marrow crust evenly cooked.

Broiled Bone Marrow Crusted Beef Sirloin Steak, Look the Delicious Rendered Bone Marrow Fat

This is the bone marrow crusted sirloin steak freshly broiled out in the oven, the rendered bone marrow fat dredged the beef steak in the botton of the oven tray. You can scoop it out, mixed it with the juice from the sousvide bag and served is as a sauce for it.

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Recipe Bone Marrow Crusted Sirloin Steak Sous Vide

Recipe Bone Marrow Crusted Sirloin Steak Sous Vide:

Recipe Sous Vide Beef Sirloin Steak:

• 2 @300 grams Black Angus sirloin beef steak
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 sprig of rosemarry and thyme
• 2 tbsp butter
• Ziplock plastic bag

Recipe Spicy Herbs Bone Marrow Crust :

• 50 gr panko bread crumbs
• 50 gr bone marrow,  removed from bone, frozen and finely diced
• 1 tbsp shallots, minced
• 1 tsp garlic, finely chopped
• 1 lemongrass, take the soft white inner part, finely chopped
• 1 tbsp lemon basil leaves, picked from stem, finely chopped
• 1 tsp garlic chives, finely chopped
• 2 red cayenne chili pepper, deseeded, finely chopped
• Salt and pepper to taste

Instruction:

How to Make Sous Vide Black Angus Striploin Steak Using Rice Cooker:

• Season the steak generously with salt and pepper, set aside
• Put the steak in the ziplock bag, then add the butter into it
• Submerged the ziplock bag in the water partially to pushed the air out ouf it
• Secure the ziplock seal once the air removed from the bag
• Place it in the preheated waterbath in 58-60°C for medium rare steak (i’m using my rice cooker with the lid on)
• Let it sit in the waterbath for 2 hours, flip it every 20 minutes and put some weight to let the bag completely submerged.
• Take away the sousvide sirloin bag from the rice cooker waterbath, set aside until it reach room temperature

While the black angus beef sirloin sit in the rice cooker waterbath, you can make the bone marrow crust

How to Make Bone Marrow Crusted Black Angus Sirloin Steak:

• Put the bone marrow in the freezer until frozen,  finely diced it
• Put all ingredients in a chilled glass bowl,  mixed it well but never over do this step unless you break the panko breadcrumbs too much
• Spread the mixture over a plastic film, rolled until had an even thickness (about 1.5 cm) and  sufficient to cover the beef steak.
• Transfer the bone marrow crust into freezer more until it firm and ready to use
• Pop the steak out of the ziplock bag, set aside the liquid, keep it warm (you served it later as a sauce)
• Heat up 1 tablespoon avocado oil in a skillet, sear the sousvide beef until perfectly browned for about 1 minute each side, set aside
• Put the firm chilled bone marrow crust over the seared sirloin beef and make sure it’s totally cover the steak
• Broiled the sirloin steak in the preheated oven using the high heat about 250°C for about 3 minutes, then lower the temperature to 200°C for another 5-7 minutes until the bone marrow crust browned and crispy
• Adjust the position of the bone marrow crust in the oven to let it evenly browned and crisp.
• Once it cooked, set aside and let it rested for about 2 minutes before carved and served
• Served the Black Angus Beef Sousvide Topped with Spicy Herbs Bone Marrow Crust with the melted bone marrow from the broiling process and mix it with the juices from the ziplock bag

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Braised Beef Shin or Shank in Spicy Soy Sauce Recipe. Thinly sliced of braised beef shank that served chilled as Chinese style cold beef appetizer is a very pupular dish in Chinese restaurant. The whole beef shin or shank muscles is slowly cooked for several hours in a spicy soya sauce and fragrance spices braising liquid until turning into deliciously tender and fragrance beef meat with beautiful stripes of translucent collagen patterning once the it chilled overnight and thinly sliced.

The Chinese style cold cut beef shank braised in spicy soy sauce is one of my favourite appetizer once i visit Chinese restaurant, even my sister used to judge the Executive Chef’s personal licking from it; either the chef got bland or kicking taste buds. Braised beef shank is also a part of classic siu mei (燒味) or roasted meat and cold cut meat platter appetizer. I usually saved the cold cut beef shank for the last bites once i ordered siu mei.

Beef shank or shin is a very versatile cheap beef cut,  mostly slowly cooked with liquid until tender. Slow heat cooking break down the beef shin’s  tough sinewy muscle (meat with tendon, ligament and silver skin) protein into tender translucent collagen within easily breakable meat. Beef shank is considered as second cut, a little bit of passion can turn that cheap beef cut into a very delicious hearty dish. You know why this braised beef shank will be lovely??? the spicy soy sauce braising liquid is very rich; garlicky, gingery, natural umamy savoury from the beef juice dripping, hot and spicy from chilies, numbning sensation from the szechuan peppercorn, sweetness from  kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce) and palm sugar and also tangy flavour from chinese black vinegar; isn’t it not quite seducing your taste buds???

In Indonesia, we used to called beef shank as daging sengkel sapi, it’s one of the most favoutire beef cut in Indonesian cuisine dishes. My Grandma used to make  soup or Indonesian Beef Rendang with beef shank. Bone-in beef shank with  a little bit meat attach is the best ingredients in Indonesian Pindang Tulang Soup, a dish similiar with Chinese Hot and Soup Beef Bone Soup. I actually love all kind of shank, you’ll find several lamb shank featured on my blog; Braised Lamb Shank with Chilies Recipe,  Braised Lamb Shank with Baked Navy Beans Recipe and Lamb Shank and Goat Shank Indian Vindaloo Curry Recipe. Pork shank or wild boar shin is also lovely to made rich stock for making Homemade Tontkotsu Ramen Broth from Scratch Recipe.

In Indonesia, this Chinese styke braised beef shank with spicy soy sauce is similiar with  Semur Daging Sapi (Indonesian Sweet Soy Sauce Beef Stew), but the kecap manis is a dominant ingredient that made semur pretty much sweeter than the Chinese style soya sauce braised beef. Chinese style braised beef shin got a fragrance aromas from excessive uses of spices; sichuan peppercorn, cinnamon and anise star within  garlic, ginger and scallion, while the semur daging sapi pretty much spiced with Homemade Garam Marsala.

Braising beef shin or shank with spicy Chinese soy sauce  is a very simple and easy following steps recipe. There are three basic steps or braising; marinating, pan searing and simmering. The whole beef shank is trimmed from excessive fat without touching the sinews (whitish fibrous tissue uniting muscle to bone or bone to bone; a tendon or ligament or silverskins). The sinews is the highlight of the Chinese style braised beef shin with soy sauce once it become translucent. The  fat definitely needed to trimmed off the beef shank because the braised beef shank is chilled before serving and any fat will ruined the dish.

The trimmed whole beef shank then marinated with salt, peppercorn and chinese five spice powder. The beef shank then seared on smokey hot cast iron pan until all surface browned and charred. Extra sliced bruised ginger, garlic, chilies and white part of scallion added and stir fried until slighly browned too. Plenty amount of premium soy sauce then added into the pan to stop the searing process. The bottom of the pan then scrapped off to remove any sticking seasoning then the mixture is transferred into a crock pot then boiled. Right after the mixture is boiled, spices like cinnamon, daun salam (Indonesian bay leaves), Szechuan peppercorn, and star anise. The pot then simmerred several hours above the stove of in a a medium high heat oven (about 160 C) until the beef shank is tender. The braising liquid is not compeletely submerged the beef shank, so it’s better be to turn the beef shank every 30 minutes to ensure the spices is transfered and penetrated throughly into the meat. To test the tenderness of the braised beef shank, insert a fork and it should be penetrate without any difficulty into the deepest part of the beef shank.

Once the beef shank is braised until tender on spicy soya sauce, don’t be too greedy to cut the beef shank immediately. The beef shank is needed to be chilled overnight before serving. Remove the beef shank from the spicy soy sauce braising liquid, rolled into simmetrical cillindrical tube with a help of translucent cling wrap plastic. Let it sit in the coolest part of the fridge chiller to let the braised beef shank collagen and gelatine set and  made it more easy to thinly sliced. The Chinese style beef shin braising liquid is actually can be strained and then chilled until set, cubed and then served within the thinly sliced beef shank meat too if you like.

The chilled cold braised beef shank carefully sliced into very thin slices and then arranged in a serving plate. I personally love anyting hot and spicy, so i add some chili oil with a touch of toasted ground Szechuan peppercorn husk for serving my braised beef shin with spicy soy sauce. The kicking hot chili pepper and numbning sensation of Szechuan peppercorn balanced the savoury sweet braised beef shank. I also added some bean sprout and local herbs micro greens called daun kenikir (Cosmos Caudatus sp) or daun ulam raja for a extra crisp and refreshing bites

Recipe Braised Beef Shank with Spicy Soy Sauce, Chili, Garlic, Gingger and Scallion ( Cold Cut Thin SLiced Beef Shin)

Ingredients:

• 1.5 – 2 kg whole  beef shank or beef shin
• 1.5 cup premium soy sauce
• 1 tbsp chinese black vinegar
• 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
• 2 tbsp sweet soy sauce
• 1 tbsp mushrooms sauce #optional
• 1 cup water or beef stock
• 3 red chillies, halves, roughly chopped
• 1 onion, quartered
• 12 cloves garlic (whole bulbs), bruised
• 1 tbsp toasted szechuan pepeprcorn
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 5 cm ginger, bruised, thinly sliced
• 5 cm cinnamon stalk
• 3-5 star anise
• 2-3 green cardamon #optional
• 1/2 nutmeg #optional
• 1 daun salam (Indonesian bay leaves)
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• salt and pepper to taste

Beef Shank or Shin Marinade Recipe:

• salt and pepper to taste
• 2 tbsp chinese five spice
• 2 tbsp oil for pan searing

Garnish and Dressing :

• Chili and Szechuan Peppercorn oil (Recipe below)
• Bean Sprout
• Micro greens leavy herbs

How to Make Thin Sliced Cold Cut Braised Beef Shank with Spicy Soy Sauce:

• Marinade the beef shank with salt, chinese five star  and peppercorn, marinade 2 hours in the fridge.
• Heat up 2 tbsp oil  until sizzling hot, sear the whole beef shank all over, make sure all surface are throughly seared. set aside
• Heat up the 2 tbsp oil in a heavy bottom sauce pan, saute the garlic, ginger, onion, and chilies until charred and browned
• Pour the  stock and put the rest of the ingredients, scrapped the sticking ingredients in the botton of the pan
• Transfer the beef shank and the braising liquid mixture in a heavy botton crock pot, bring the liquid to boil.
• Reduce the heat, put the lid and simmer, turn the beef shank every 30 minutes
• Simmer the beef shank until  tender for about 2-3 hours
• Remove the beef shank from the spicy soy sauce braising liquid, set aside
• Wrapped and rolled tthe tender braised beef shank with plastic cling wrap to make a regular cillindrical tube shape
• Refrigerate the braised beef shank with Chinese spicy soy sauce overnight
• Carefully thinly sliced the braised beef shank
• served the cold cur braised beef shank with chili and szechuan peppercorn oil, bean sprout and micro greens leaves.

Recipe Chili and Szechuan Peppercorn Oil:

• Heat up 1 tbsp oil, add 1 tbsp chopped fresh deseeded bird eye chilies, 2 tbsp chili flakes and1 tbsp toasted Szechuan peppercorn husk
• Slowly saute with low heat and then springkle some salt
• Add 1 cup olive oil and let it simmer in a very low heat (one small bubbles comes out at a time) for about 45 minutes
• Turn off the heat and the chili oil is ready to use

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