Pomegranate Braised Beef And Meatballs
From midgelet 14 years ago
- 240 minutes to make
- Serves 10
A unique dish of pomegrante infused slow cooked meats baked in a covered casserole. sealed with dough. The dough locks in the juices and is broken prior to serving Source: newspaper on Sephardic cooking
Ingredients
- 3 lbs deboned Flanken meat cut into 4 inch long strips shopping list
- 2 lbs ground beef shopping list
- 2 large sweet onions thinly sliced shopping list
- 6 cloves garlic finely chopped shopping list
- 1 cup ruby port wine shopping list
- 3 cups pomegranite juice shopping list
- 1/3 cup tomato paste shopping list
- 1 tsp hot paprika shopping list
- 1/2 tsp cayene pepper ( optional ) shopping list
- 2 eggs beaten shopping list
- 4 tsp olive oil shopping list
- 1 1/2 cup potato starch shopping list
- 2 cups flour shopping list
- water shopping list
How to make it
- In a large bowl mix ground beef, toatato paste, potato starch eggs, oil, paprika and cayenne and set aside
- In a 6 qt casserole or Dutch oven, lay on half the onions and garlic evenly.
- Place the flanken strips on the outer layers in a ring.
- Roll the beef mixture in one inch balls and fill inside the flanken ring
- Cover with the remaining onions.
- Pour over the wine and pomegranite juice
- Cover with a lid
- In another bowl mix flour and enough water to make a thick dough
- Roll the dough into half inch thick ropes and seal the sides of the casserole dish
- Bake in a 300F oven for about 4 hours.
- As it is baking the dough hardens but seals in the steam.
- Break the seal just before serving
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