TL;dr: No access to smoker or bbq, how can I cook this slab?
Partner picked up 2kgs of this beef which came labelled as "short-" (remainder was cut off)
ChatGPT suggested this was beef belly/short plate, but the challenge is how to cook it as 95% of recipes online say it's best smoked/BBQ'd but unfortunately I have access to neither.
We tried cooking 1kg into Filipino Tapsilog (fried marinaded beef), but it wasn't great – too fatty/gristly with not enough meat
Can anyone suggest a recipe for what we can do with it?
Cheers
by LBdnb
30 Comments
Baked beans
As I read I realized op was looking for something to cook up soon, but I’m still a little surprised nobody but me thought of corned beef!
Roast like you would pork belly, should make a fine crackling
Freeze it slice thin for hot pot
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Crock pot or pressure cooker and make barbacoa
Make lardons for sautéing
Save until you can 🤷♂️
Slice it thin for beef bacon.
Crispy pork/or glazed pork not sure on the recipe haven’t made it yet really want to can get the glaze or make it. For crispy might be harder
Edit candied pork not glazed
My bad didn’t see beef see comment below
Japanese kakuni. Absolutely mouthwatering and freezes well.
I would cure with salt and sugar for a day. Then braise covered with some aromatics and liquid for like 5-6 hours at 285-300 depending. Uncover at the end and blast it at 400 for another 15-20 minutes to crisp. Extra points if you make the liquid into a sauce after.
If you can, press is after it comes out of the oven until cooled. It will be really gelatinous after cooking, pressing it and cooling will allow portioning if that’s what you want.
Suadero tacos
Make boneless beef short ribs in crock pot?
Braised
Trim and braise. Save Trimings and render
Trim, sear and braise
225 in the oven?
I’d make an awesome glazed belly. Not sure if it would be as good as pork belly but I’d try either way.
Slice thick add to beans.
Crockpot for 12 hours on low with a dry rub. It’ll be delicious. Make tacos.
Koreans slice this thin, it’s called cha dol baeki.
Can use it for soups, bbq(pan fry) etc
Otherwise, guiness pot pie or any stew is good
Make beef tallow from some of it and use that for cooking and frying stuff
Don’t worry, I’ll deal with it for you
For me, it’s too fatty. I would melt it down and use the tallow for cooking.
I per se dont have any suggestions for the meat but i suggest getting a wooden cutting board, no microplastics, no bacterial culture growing in the cuts and it lasts longer
You could make some delicious satay.
Use kecap manis as a marinade with some lemon.
The dip, don’t use satay but kecap manis chopped onions and tomato and generous amounts of lemon and thinly sliced kaffir lime leaves and chopped chillies.
Eat with rice.
You’ll get some great char juicy flavour and a little beef
Thinly slice the rest for shabu shabu or hotpot.
Dice into 2 inch cubes, slow cooker (or sous vide if you can), cool, then under the grill to crisp up.
oven bake or boil and then smear with garlic and bbq sauce then sear in pan
Braised it in a dutch oven or freeze and slice for hot pot.