Diced Beef - Slow Cooker Marinade

davetaylor

Hi,

I have a packet of cubed beef to use up and am planning to make some kind of slow cooker dish tomorrow.

I want the beef to be as melt in the mouth as possible and was wondering if there was any benefit in marinading it overnight in the fridge in something? I was thinking either yoghurt or red wine?

Oh, I don't have an firm ideas about what I am going to cook it with tomorrow so any suggestion would be welcome.

I do have a bag of frozen veg, carrots, cauliflower and broccoli I was planning to chuck a load of that in...

davetaylor

Just about to go shopping and wondered if anyone had any ideas on this?

twink

am sure you could marinade the beef if you want but i find the long slow cooking makes the beef very tender anyway

davetaylor

Thanks Twink. I'm thinking some chopped garlic, and chilies, red wine and spices?

twink

davetaylor wrote: »

Thanks Twink. I'm thinking some chopped garlic, and chilies, red wine and spices?

go for it then sounds lovely, let us know how it turns out

redruby

Hi Dave,

I find marinading it overnight in guinness makes it tender and tastes fab, probably too late now as you may have gone shopping, but ok for next time.

champys

There was a fab recipe on here a while ago, and to my embarrassment I do not remember who posted it. I've made it a few times already, and it goes as follows:

Spicy Beef Casserole

1kg Stewing Beef
2 tbspns flour
2 tsps each curry powder, ground ginger,cumin,coriander
3 tbsps each brown sugar, worcestershire sauce,vinegar
1/2 cup orange juice
2 each sliced carrots,onions

Cut beef into 3cm cubes and place in a casserole. Combine the flour with the spices and rub into the meat until it is well coated. Add the sugar,sauce and vinegar and marinate for at least 4 hours.Pre-heat the oven to 180deg. Add the orange juice and vegetables to the casserole.cover and cook for 2 hours or until the meat is tender.

I think this should be very suitable for the slow cooker - although I have been using the pressure cooker myself!

Really delicious. Thanks again to the poster :-)

davetaylor

Hi,

Thanks for the replies. In particular the recipe above sounds yummy.

Here is what I ended up doing. I get on very well with my local Indian restaurant (it's my one big non OS sin). Anyway, it's just across the road from where I live, so I popped in to ask the chef for advice. He said yoghurt was the key and also to grind the other ingredients. I was not sure what he meant so he took me too the kitchen where he had a food processor on the go packed full of garlic, chillies and ginger. Anyway, he very kindly gave me a small tub of the ground ingredients. So I mixed the beef in yoghurt and the garlic, chillies and ginger added a splash of red wine and left it in a tub in the fridge over night.

When I can be bothered to get out of bed I'm planning to lightly fry a chopped onion and spices (cumin, corriander and garam massala), add to slow cooker, also add in a chunk of frozen veg. Then brown the beef add that in. Pour over some more red wine and a bit of water and leav on low all day.

Claero

That sounds like it's going to be lovely. The last time I tried a slow cooker beef recipe it actually dried out and I'm going to be trying again tomorrow. My standard recipe is to pour on a bit of leftover beer (we're going to a barbecue so finding a half full bottle shouldn't be too hard) and some herbs (usually thyme because of its nice smell), with a stock cube and just leaving it. Towards the end of the cooking time I season it and if the sauce needs thickening just stir in a bit of cornflour. I've never had much joy at making slow cooker curries, but I might just have to give that one a go! Best of luck with it