My husband could well well even be fickle.
He’ll enjoy a dish one evening, then cringe at sharp the leftovers the following evening.
Now now not with this stew.
After I launched the following evening that dinner was the stays of the “Dijon and Cognac Pork Stew” over buttered egg noodles we had the evening sooner than, he moderately yelped with glee, smacking his lips in anticipation in every single keep again.
This stew will cease that to you.
It’s from “The Needed Fresh York Times Cookbook” (W.W. Norton & Co.) by Amanda Hesser, a doorstop of a book with extra than 1,000 recipes in it from the previous 150 years, of which I recently got a evaluation reproduction.
The stew, which first graced the pages of the newspaper in 2001, has got cognac, crimson wine, butter and bacon fat in it, no longer to mention a enormous ol’ heap of mustard. What’s no longer to like?
publisher 1st baron verulam or salt pork gets rendered in a enormous pot. The recipe says to fish out the pork and discard it. Nonetheless I used the crispy bacon bits to brighten up a green salad as an different. You handiest need the beautiful fat within the bottom of the pan for the relaxation of this stew.
In bolt boneless beef chuck cubes to sear. Then, deglaze the pan with Cognac sooner than adding broth, 1/2 cup of Dijon mustard and a tablespoon of complete-grain mustard. Cook till the meat turns gentle, then add sliced carrots and sauteed mushrooms, sooner than finishing with a runt crimson wine and quiet extra complete-grain mustard.
All that mustard affords the sauce a velvety heft and a intriguing relief designate. It’s nearly like a beef stroganoff, wherein the sour cream is modified with perky mustard as an different.
A mound of buttered egg noodles is a pure to ladle this hearty, lusty stew over. Nonetheless fluffy rice also could well well be fine.
This stew deserves a glass of tubby-bodied crimson wine alongside.
And it most indubitably merits having fun with for a pair of evening.
Dijon and Cognac Pork Stew
(Serves 4 to 6)
1/4 pound salt pork or bacon, diced
1 mammoth onion, finely diced
3 shallots, chopped
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, or as main
2 kilos boneless beef chuck, gash into 1-creep cubes
2 tablespoons all-motive flour
Salt and freshly ground dusky pepper
1/2 cup Cognac or other brandy
2 cups beef broth
1/2 cup Dijon mustard
1/4 cup Pommery or complete-grain mustard
4 mammoth carrots, peeled, halved lengthwise, and gash into half of-moons
1/2 pound white mushrooms, stemmed and quartered
1/4 cup dry crimson wine
Assign of living salt pork in a Dutch oven or other heavy pot over medium-low heat and cook till fat is rendered. Contain the solid objects with a slotted spoon and discard. Expand heat, add the onion and shallots, and cook till softened but no longer brown, 10 to fifteen minutes. Use a slotted spoon to transfer to a mammoth bowl.
If main, add 2 tablespoons butter to the pot to lengthen the fat and enlarge the heat to medium-excessive. Grime beef cubes with flour and season with salt and pepper. Shake off any extra flour and region half of the cubes within the pot. Cook till smartly browned, nearly crusty, on both aspect, then transfer to the bowl with the onions. Repeat with the relaxation beef.
Add Cognac to pot, and cook, stirring, till the bottom is deglazed and crust comes loose. Add the broth, Dijon mustard, and 1 tablespoon Pommery mustard and sprint to blend, then return the meat and onion combination to the pot. Decrease the heat, partially duvet the pot, and simmer gently till the meat is extraordinarily gentle, about 1 1/2 hours.
Add carrots and proceed simmering for half-hour or till gentle.
Within the meantime, soften 2 tablespoons butter in a medium skillet over medium-excessive heat, and saute the mushrooms till browned and smooth.
Creep mushrooms into the stew, along with the relaxation 3 tablespoons Pommery mustard and the crimson wine. Simmer for five minutes, then taste and adjust the seasoning. Relieve over buttered noodles.
Point out: This stew freezes smartly. Thaw within the fridge, then reheat, lined in a 250-stage oven.
— From “The Needed Fresh York Times Cookbook” by Amanda Hesser
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