Slow-Cooked Cuban Beef

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For today's recipe and dish, I'm heading back into the Pinch of Nom recipe book as there is a section for stews and soups, which are perfect for slow-cooking, meaning your dinner/tea is cooking while you're busy at work, so when you walk through the door, all you need to do is dish it up and enjoy.

Let's get cooking!

Ingredients:

500 g stewing beef

Sea salt & freshly ground black pepper

Low-calorie cooking spray

2 onions, sliced

240 ml beef stock (2 beef stock cubes dissolved in 240 ml boiling water)

1 x 400 g tin chopped tomatoes

4 garlic cloves, crushed

2 tbsp tomato puree

1 tsp ground cumin

1 tsp dried oregano

1/2 tsp ground turmeric

2 bay leaves

1 tbsp coriander

1 red wine stock pot

1 tbsp white wine vinegar

cooked rice, to serve (optional)

Start off by seasoning your beef with the salt and pepper, then spray your frying pan with some low-calorie cooking spray and place over a medium heat. Add the meat and saute for a few minutes until browned.

Next add all the remaining ingredients to your slow cooker, along with the browned meat and stir.

Set the slow cooker to high and cook for 6 hours, or on medium for 8 hours.

If using a piece of stewing meat, you can now pull the meat apart with 2 forks, if the sauce is still a little thin, remove the slow cookers lid and allow it to reduce slightly.

Serve with rice or whatever you fancy.

I thought the slow-cooker method was really easy and simple to follow, the only thing I was left disappointed and gutted about was that some of the dish was burnt to the sides of my slow cooker. Overall I loved the flavours and how soft the beef was, I think if I cooked it this way again I would add a little more liquid, so that it doesn't all pretty much cook away and burn to the sides. 

There are 2 other methods of cooking this dish which is on the hob/in the oven and an electric pressure cooker. If you would like to follow any of the other methods or check out the full recipe, as I missed out some of the ingredients due to Skye not liking them, then check out the Pinch of Nom recipe book.

You can buy the recipe book in all major supermarkets as well as online retailers Waterstones and Amazon.

See you soon!

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