Slow Bullet Beef

in recipes •  8 years ago 

20170414_193605.jpg

Beef Shin! What are we going to do with that? Why not slow cook it with cumin, soy, garlic, onion and most importantly 8 fat jalapeños for a fresh grassy heat. This cut has a real dark depth of flavour when cooked till it melts apart. Drool-tastic!

It's as easy as anything and dashed tasty. Let's get cooking!

You will need

20170414_142916.jpg
Half a kilo of beef shin
4 cloves of garlic
8 big fat green jalapeños
1 medium onion
1 heaped teaspoon of cumin
2 tbsps of soy sauce
2 big tbsps of tomato paste
½ a pint of hot water

An iron crock pot for cooking it in.

And whatever you like to accompany it. Salad, rice or pasta. The world will dance merrily with your Slow Bullet Beef!

To make

First off, get your oven on at 120 degrees.

Put your crock pot on a medium high heat. After it is fair old hot, season your beef shin, chuck it in and brown on all sides.
pixlr_20170414190102878.jpg

Once browned remove from the pot
20170414_143821.jpg

Finely chop your onion, garlic and jalapeños
20170414_143614.jpg

Add some oil to the pot and add them in, reduce the heat to medium and fry for a few minutes
20170414_143712.jpg

Add your tomato paste, cumin, soy sauce and hot water with a pinch of salt and some black pepper. Then plop your browned beef in
20170414_144117.jpg

Pop it in the oven and now you are free to crack open a beer and settle down for three or four hours whilst it cooks.
20170414_191240.jpg

After three or four hours, take the old girl out of the oven and open her up. Your beef should be all fall'y apart'y. Get two forks and in best shredding style give them a hard fork. Gettit!! ;0)
20170414_191103.jpg

Turn the oven up to 160 and put the old girl back in the oven with the lid off for half an hour to forty five minutes. Checking that the sauce reduces to a nice thick consistency.

Once it's nice and thick you are ready!! Get it out and scoff it!!! Sometimes a nice squirt of lime at the end is really nice but it's up to you.
20170414_193605.jpg

Enjoy!
20170414_193539.jpg

20170414_193553.jpg

Authors get paid when people like you upvote their post.
If you enjoyed what you read here, create your account today and start earning FREE STEEM!
Sort Order:  

NOMS! I could definitely eat that but the jalapenos might kill my husband.
Still, I'm saving the recipe for when my boys come to visit! :)

Yeah the jalapenos definitely add a little pizazz!!! :O)

I'll pass just because I don't take beef but I must it still looks juicily good.

Thank you! It is indeed juicily good!

You are welcome

Hehe, cheers. I must have missed the announcement for that one! Dash it all! I will have to keep a better eye on @woman-onthe-wing!

Wow!!! That looks fantastic!! (I have to admit, I got a little caught up in the "giving the old girl a hard forking with 2 forks for good measure." Or, something along those lines.)

Bahahhaha!! I was getting carried away myself at that bit. Had to drag myself back to reality lolz!!

This looks so good. Add some rice mmmm. Thanks for sharing!

Hehe, I had it with rice! I didn't put it on the plate for the photos because I love rice and if you ever look at any of my spicy meat dishes they are always sat on or next to a big mound of it. This time I thought I would pretend I am not just a rice daftie! :O)

I love rice too! I could eat rice every day! Even regular white rice with beans. Mmm. Im getting hungry! :)

I had lots tonight!

Looks really delicious. And with a good beer to slow the wait time. Doesn't get much better than that. Except I've learned a new phrase today from across yon sea. "Stonking Tasty". New goal...use that in a sentence at least once this week. Thanks for the great post, and the hardfork joke was quite nifty as well.

Hehe, I think I am glad you liked the phrase stonking tasty more than I am glad you liked the dish!

A good beer seems to fit in perfectly when waiting. I think I might have overdid it last night though as I feel a tad delicate today!

I bet this would go perfectly fine with some fried potatoes!!

You know it would. I still have plenty left over for today and might just do that!!

I appreciate that combination a lot, some beef cooked in tomato sauce accompanied​ by fried chips. I'm drooling already! Good appetite :)

Thank you! Yes it makes for a lovely saucy, beefy dish!! :0)

Good recipe, great hard-fork joke. Cheers!

Boof, first to get the hardfork joke!!! Cheers! 5 steem winging its way to your wallet for catching that :0)

Too kind @meesterboom - Means a lot to a minnow like me... powering it up now!

Fantastic to hear. I shall follow you too. A belated welcome to steemit!! :0)

Thank you and have followed you too!

My type of food! Looks great man!

Cheers dude, it's smashing. I could eat it day in day out!

that looks delicious, its making my mouth water lol.
I shall try it sometime, altho ill be using less chili's :-)

Hehe, aw! You gotta use lots so it can live up to the name!! ;0)

But, It's rather good even with less chilli's!

Thank you for posting @meesterboom.

This sounds absolutely lovely....and cooked in an iron pot really makes for the best results.

Appreciate the lovely photographs and detailed recipe which have Steemians looking forward to getting started.

The lime will be the perfect additional note.

We will join you in the waiting with a cold....cold......one. Cheers!

Wishing you and yours all the best.

It's the best way to wait with a cold, cold one!! Cheers to you @bleujay! And you are right, I do prefer it with a squeeze of lime near the end!

@meesterboom, I would like to place my order now. Steem On!

Maximum steem with this stuff dude, Cheers!!

Sorry I thought you must have had a stomach ache hehe

Maybe tomorrow!!! ;0)

Your cooking isn't that bad :)

It's awesome :0D

It does lool nice, in a big steak fan :)

It's absolutely stonking tasty!

I might give it a go as hubby likes his beef too :)

You should, shin is a cheap as chips too!

Mmmmm that slow bullet looks like it's going to hit real hard, real good! Why did it have to be with an oven?? Haha! Since it's in a crock pot, I'll try the stove version whenever I acquire a beef shin. Perhaps in my quest around the old haunted cow dungeon where the Minotaur holds dominion over. Won't be as soft though, and as you said "fall'y apart'y", even though I give it a good hard fork. I don't want to imagine the mess the slow bullet will make in its exit wound ;) Nice, dude! And it really made me hungry just in time for lunch, too!

Ohh wait, I just thought of a local variant that looks similar. But, it swaps out the jalapenos for star anise, and is a sweeter version of it called Pares. There's also one where jalapeno is swapped for calamansi, which is a Filipino staple called Bistek Tagalog or Tagalog Beef Steak. It's amazing how the Slow Bullet Beef is standing side by side with local favorites :D

Those local favorites sound awesome!! What is calamansi?

The old haunted cow dungeon. Hehe, that made me giggle for sure. Yes you are bound to find shins galore there!!

Calamansi is like a Philippine Lime. It's sweeter and tartier than a lime, but I guess they can be used interchangeably.

I just got back from the dungeon, and I fear that instead of acquiring some mythical shins, I am minus one shin myself. I hope that belligerent bovine has fun cooking up the Slow Bullet Beef from my shin. In my haste to run away, I accidentally threw your recipe at him, so I'm sure he'll put it to good use. I did spot an oven in the labyrinth, so yeah.

Slow Bullet Jedau Beef. Mmm that coo is in for a cracking feast! lolz!

I love the fact there are so many variations or different fruits out there that I am not aware of!

I'll send you some if you send me some of them rapeseed haha! The name still doesn't sit well with me hahaha Seriously though, I would definitely pack some for you if I ever happen upon your neck of the woods ;)

Yeah, the name isn't the best is it! To think that the crop is actually referred to as rape sometimes. Yeek, damn that old English!!

It was meant as "to plunder" or "to steal", right? So I guess, the modern-ish English is at fault for muddying up what was a fairly innocent term haha!

Yeah, those were it's relatively innocent roots lol!!