Beef Tagine with Prunes
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 2½ hours
Serves: 6
This is the ideal recipe for Shabbat especially during the winter. It is a tasty warming beef stew flavoured with red wine, cinnamon and ginger. The recipe will freeze and is excellent for a buffet meal as it is particularly easy to serve for large numbers. I like to accompany it with coriander mashed potato that soaks into the thick gravy!
Ingredients
- 900g chuck beef steak cut into cubes
- 3 tablespoons Rakusen’s fine matzo meal
- 2 tablespoons vegetable or olive oil
- 4 onions – peeled and sliced
- 250g dried prunes – stones removed
- 2 cm ginger root – peeled and grated
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 200g sultanas
- 300ml red wine
- 450ml beef stock
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Garnish
- Sprigs of fresh coriander
- 6 tablespoons split almonds – toasted
For the Coriander Mashed Potatoes
- 1.35 kg Potatoes – peeled and roughly chopped
- 3 tablespoons Rakusen’s Tomor margarine
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Pinch of nutmeg
- 3 tablespoons fresh coriander – roughly chopped
- Freshly ground sea salt – to taste
Method
- Heat the oil in a large deep saucepan. Fry the beef until browned. Add the onions, cinnamon, ginger, matzo meal to the saucepan and continue to fry for a further 5 minutes.
- Add the red wine, stock, prunes and sultanas. Bring to the boil. Cover and reduced the heat to simmer for 2 hours.
- Pre-heat the oven to 200°C / 400°F / Gas mark 6.
- Place the almonds on a baking tray. Put in the oven and toast until golden. This will take about 10 minutes but keep an eye on them, as they will burn!
- Cook the potatoes until soft. Drain. Either use a fork or potato ricer to mash the potatoes. Return the potato to the saucepan. Add the tomor margarine, olive oil, coriander, nutmeg and salt. Stir and season to taste.
To serve the stylish way: Place a generous helping of mashed potato on a warm plate and pour over an individual helping of beef stew. Garnish with sprigs of coriander and toasted split almonds.
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