6 Star Red Wine & Shallot Sauce for Beef

farang31
farang31 @farang31
Lancashire, England

I love cooking high end Fancy dinners from normal supermarket ingredients, Sauces just make a $10 piece of meat for 2 into $150 each LOL

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Ingredients

1 hour - Its worth it
4-6 I freeze if only 2 of us
  1. 250 grShallots - I use red onions as really difficult (and expensive to get shallots here)
  2. 4 tbspolive oil
  3. 2garlic clove, lightly crushed
  4. sprigrosemary
  5. 5 tbspbalsamic vinegar (Cheap stuff - its more sweet)
  6. 400 mlred wine (Cheaper is sometimes best)
  7. 400 mlbeef stock (I use 2 Stock cubes dissolved in Boiling Water)
  8. 1 TblsCaster Sugar
  9. 100 Grbutter

Cooking Instructions

1 hour - Its worth it
  1. 1

    Fry 250g Onion or shallots in a frying pan with 4 tbsp olive oil over a high heat for about 3 mins until lightly browned, stirring often.
    Season with ground black pepper and add 1 lightly crushed garlic clove and a sprig of rosemary. Cook for another 3 minutes stirring so it doesn't burn.

  2. 2

    Pour in 5 tbsp balsamic vinegar and cook until evaporated away to a syrup, then pour in 400ml red wine and cook until reduced by two thirds Then Pour in 400ml beef or brown chicken stock and bring to the boil. Again let reduced by two thirds. Remove the Rosemary and Garlic.

  3. 3

    Add the juices from the cooked meat (it alot then simmer until reduced again). Taste and Add Salt if needed.

  4. 4

    Now the Fancy Part you can quickly Blitz with a Stand Blender or keep the Onions more in Pieces. Then Add the butter DO NOT stir - Chefs trick is the swirl the pan slightly until the Butter disappears - this make little droplets of butter within the sauce - SOOOOOOOOOOOO luxurious.

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