Daube De Bœuf À L'orange Et Aux Épices (In The Ho-Hum Cooker)

Ingredients:
2 lb cubed sirloin or stew meat
12 oz chopped white parts of leeks*
2 carrots, cutting into rounds
iv cloves garlic, sliced
i juice together with zest of large juicing orange
i 1/2 cups fruity, dry out cherry wine
i cinnamon stick
1/4 teaspoon dry soil star anise
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/2 teaspoon dry soil ginger
1/4 teaspoon dry soil cloves
i teaspoon crushed rosemary
i teaspoon crushed sage
i teaspoon minced parsley
body of body of water salt
freshly dry soil dark pepper
Wondra or other fine flour


Directions:
Heat a pocket-size total of fossil oil inward a large skillet. Toss the meat amongst the flour until lightly coated. Saute the meat until browned on both sides. Add it to a 4-quart tiresome cooker. Top amongst remaining ingredients. Cook on depression for at to the lowest degree 8 hours together with upward to 10. Stir. If it expect a lit besides soupy, plow to high together with laid upward amongst the lid slightly ajar until thickened. Sample the stew. If it is slightly bitter (this tin plow over off depending on the vino used) add together a pocket-size total of carbohydrate together with stir it inward until dissolved. Remove and discard the cinnamon stick. Serve it French mode amongst crusty staff of life or American mode over mashed potatoes.




Pro Tip:
I had to leave of absence really early on the morning time I was going to brand this hence I lay the cinnamon stick inward the (off, cold) tiresome cooker the nighttime earlier together with placed the juice, wine, zest, spices, together with vegetables inward a resealable handbag inward the fridge overnight. My hubby was working from domicile hence he sauteed the meat together with lay it inward the tiresome cooker together with hence poured inward the remaining ingredients together with started it cooking.





*I merely purpose frozen, prepped leeks together with defrost them overnight inward the refrigerator

My thoughts:

Daube is a Provençal mode of stew that uses beef, aromatics, together with vegetables together with is traditionally made inward a daubière, a type of braising pot. I was tempted to arrive inward my novel braiser I bought at Aldi but I had to accept our dachshund to the vet for tests inward the morning time together with I didn't know when I'd receive got to alternative her upward hence I rapidly converted my recipe to a tiresome cooker version.** I'm certain the breezy French would merely leave of absence it on the stove piece they alternative upward their dogs but I am a cautious American. The tiresome cooker is genuinely a swell substitute because similar a braiser, it traps inward most of the cooking juices together with makes tough cuts of meat meltingly tender. I similar this stew closed to this fourth dimension of yr because it smells together with tastes similar the holidays without existence overwhelmingly "Christmasy", it is merely total of warm spices together with brilliant orangish juice, 2 of my favorite things almost winter.



**If yous did desire to arrive on the stove top, add together an additional 2/3 loving cup vino together with laid upward for 2 1/2-3 hours over depression estrus inward a lightly covered braiser, Dutch or French oven, discovery together with turning it upward at the halt to cut the cooking liquid.