Slow Cooked Beef Ragu - Donna Hay






Slow cooked beef ragu adapted from Donna Hay.
This week, that ladies of WwDH made a slow cooked beef ragu.  Sara made the selection this week.  I did make some changes.  I had a bag of baby carrots so I used some of these in place of a carrot.  I skipped the garlic, used dried rosemary, and eliminated the Parmesan.  

I didn't shred the beef although it was cut into small pieces.  The meat was tender and had the necessary vegetables to serve this successfully with the polenta.  This is a dish my husband really enjoyed and would have loved years ago before we cut back on meat.  It was a good recipe.

It included extra virgin olive oil, beef brisket, sea salt and cracked black pepper, onion, chopped,  cloves garlic, crushed,  carrot, peeled , sprigs rosemary,  red wine,  beef stock, 
water,  chopped tomatoes,  red wine vinegar  tomato paste and the creamy polenta, 

As you can see, I did not chop up the carrots and instead left them whole.  It felt like we were having more of a meal, in  this way.

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Comments

  1. Angie's RecipesFebruary 3, 2015 at 11:00 PM

    Love Donna Hay's recipes! Your ragu looks so tasty and flavoursome, Chaya.

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  2. DIMPLEKHADIFebruary 4, 2015 at 5:49 AM

    Hmmm... looks delicious and healthy!
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  3. CakelawFebruary 4, 2015 at 6:03 AM

    Looks good Chaya. I enjoyed this one too.

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  4. SarahFebruary 4, 2015 at 7:52 AM

    I shredded my beef and was surprised how much I liked doing it! It was kind of calming; haha! I'm glad your husband liked it, too.

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  5. KayteFebruary 4, 2015 at 8:02 AM

    Looks good...nice and comforting for this cold week here. My carrots sort of got lost in the whole combination so I think next time I would make mine larger as well!

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  6. PeggyFebruary 4, 2015 at 1:55 PM

    My carrots were larger too and i liked them that way. This was so delicious to me. Great recipe! Yours looks good!

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2015 at 9:58 PM

    This was so good, we're rewinding and having it again tonight. I was using multicolored carrots and mine got lost in the ragu. Looks lovely, Chaya!

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  8. TeaLadyMarch 16, 2015 at 11:27 PM

    We've cut back on beef a lot in the last few years but you cannot beat a good roast. I will have to go back and make this one since everyone says it is so good.

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