Red Wine-Braised Short Ribs

By Leslie Blythe  ,   , ,

January 21, 2019

These Red Wine-Braised Short Ribs are from Ina Garten's new cookbook, Cook Like a Pro: Recipes & Tips for Home Cooks. She browns the short ribs on a sheet pan, which saves time and mess. You sauté the vegetables while the ribs brown in the oven. Then they are all slow roasted in the oven.

  • Prep: 30 mins
  • Cook: 3 hrs
  • Yields: 6 Servings

Ingredients

Fresh thyme sprigs

1 tablespoon brown sugar

6 cups beef stock

6 beef short ribs, trimmed of fat

Kosher salt

Freshly ground black pepper

¼ cup good olive oil

1 small fennel, fronds, stems, and core removed, large-diced

1 leek, cleaned and large-diced, white part only

1½ cups chopped onion (2 onions)

4 cups large-diced celery (6 large stalks)

2 carrots, peeled and large-diced

3 garlic cloves, minced

2 tablespoons tomato paste

1 (750-ml) bottle Cotes du Rhone or other dry red wine

Fresh rosemary sprigs

Directions

1Preheat the oven to 400° F. Place the short ribs on a sheet pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and roast for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Reduce the oven temperature to 300° F.

2Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a large Dutch oven and add the fennel, leek, onion, celery and carrots and cook over medium-low heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the garlic and cook for another 2 minutes. Add the tomato paste and wine, bring to a boil and cook over high heat until the liquid is reduced by half, about 10 minutes. Add 1 tablespoon salt and 1 teaspoon pepper. Tie the rosemary and thyme together with kitchen twine and add to the pot.

3Place the roasted ribs on top of the vegetables in the Dutch oven and add the brown sugar and beef stock. Bring to a simmer over high heat. Cover the Dutch oven and bake for 2 hours or until the meat is very tender.

4Carefully remove the short ribs from the pot and set aside. Discard the herbs and skim the excess fat. Cook the vegetables and sauce over medium heat for 20 minutes, until reduced. Put the ribs back into the pot and heat through. Serve with the vegetables and sauce.

Pro tip

1Browning the short ribs on a sheet pan saves time and mess. You can sauté the aromatics while the ribs brown in the oven.

Recipe from Cook Like a Pro: Recipes & Tips for Home Cooks,2018 by Ina Garten.

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1 Review

Jeanne

January 23, 2019

Happy Birthday, Grace!

Will drink a toast to you again when I make this for dinner. Will report back. Looks delicious.

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