Restaurant to Another World Red Queen Beef Stew
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So, look, I know Miss Kobayashi'southward Dragon Maid is super cute, and it'south very sugariness and empty-headed, and anybody loves information technology, but if I'yard going to take to pick a dragon I'd actually have to go with Red-Queen Dragon from Restaurant to Another World. I mean, she'd a giant absurd dragon with a literal floating island filled with treasure, and when she takes her human form she is GORGEOUS. The envy is real. The just problem I have is with her taste in food. She has a portal to a magic restaurant that makes amazing food and she chooses to eat….BEEF STEW???
Let's just say that it'due south not my favorite food. I'm not overly inspired by information technology, and the last time I made beef stew, commentors went WILD, and non in a good way. When I checked the comments at work the next 24-hour interval, I was so upset about what everyone had said that it was making me irritable with my students. They could tell I was upset about something, and then they pestered me about it and, in order to reassure my kids that I wasn't mad at them, I had to explain the intricacies of making beefiness stew, posting about it on the internet, and dealing with the backlash because SOMEHOW my beef stew resembled a curry more than a stew, despite the lack of curry anywhere in this dish. Yes, I'm yet #salty near that post. Funnily enough, that recipe was yet the best stew I've ever made, too.
So, when I saw that this recipe featured in the first episode of what looks similar a really cool evidence, I was hesitant to recreate it. What actually piqued my involvement (besides the awesome dragon lady) was the manner this dish was put together. Commonly, when you brand a stew, you brown the beef, sautee aromatics, add in the liquids, and permit it simmer for 3 hours then the meat can get tender and the stew has a take chances to take on a more nuanced flavor. Yous add in the vegetables around an hr prior to cooking completion, so that they take a chance to soak up some of the sauce and become prissy and soft. Withal, in this dish, y'all can see that the vegetables weren't simmered with the beefiness at all. They're much too clean and perfect looking. What really surprised me, though, was how cute and clear the sauce was. I'chiliad used to having onions and garlic and herbs floating around in the gravy, not to mention the other vegetables, so I was dislocated with how I could make a dish that was infused with all the flavors of the aromatics without muddling the sauce, so that the final presentation was well-baked and cute.
My solution was to cook the stew mostly as normal, sans the vegetables, which I boiled separately and added to the final presentation. This allowed the green and orange of the broccoli and the carrots to actually polish, adding to the wonderful colour of the dish. In order to keep the sauce clear and pretty, I substituted stale thyme with fresh, so that I could fish information technology out more easily. I chopped the onion in big chunks, when I would normally practise bite-sized pieces, and I left the garlic whole. This allowed me to more than easily remove these pieces from the end result. The sauce would be perfectly flavored, simply would nevertheless be clean.
Lastly, I fabricated certain to brownish the meat before anything else. I didn't exercise this the last time I made stew (and got #roasted for not doing it), only did it this time for two reasons. 1) I didn't want people to get mad at me again and 2) Since this is sort of a deconstructed beef stew, I wanted the flavor of the meat to actually be on point. Browning it not but added to the flavour and texture of the beef, but it contributed greatly to the stew base itself, farther amplifying those flavors.
I remember these changes, compared to my final beef stew recipe, really made all the difference! I was really pleased with how this turned out- I think information technology was nigh the perfect re-create of what y'all see in the anime, both in looks and sense of taste. Is this stew fit for a dragon? Absolutely! Even better, this makes a TON of food, and the leftovers seriously only get ameliorate.
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Ingredients for Dragon's Stew:
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- 2 1/2 pounds of stew meat, preferably a Chuck roast, cut into seize with teeth-sized pieces
- Salt/ Pepper
- Olive Oil
- 1/2 yellow onion
- three cloves garlic, peeled
- 2 Tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
- 2 Tbsp love apple paste
- 1/four loving cup flour
- ane loving cup red wine
- 1 cup h2o
- 2 cups beefiness goop
- 1 bay foliage
- 3-iv sprigs fresh thyme
- 2 Tsp saccharide
- 2 carrots, peeled
- 3 Yukon Gilded potatoes, peeled
- 1-ii heads broccoli
To Make Dragon's Stew:
one. Prep veggies. Cut potatoes in half, cutting carrots on an angle into 2 inch pieces, cut broccoli costless of the stalk into pieces, one-half onion and skin information technology. Peel garlic, if necessary. Set aside.
2. Preheat oven to 325 F.
three. Heat up a large pan or dutch oven (dish must be stove and oven condom) with a little olive oil. Common salt and pepper both sides of stew meat, and, when the oil is ready, start cooking in batches. Don't crowd the pan, or it volition start stewing instead of browning. Go about 6-8 pieces at a fourth dimension, calculation more oil in between batches. Equally it finishes, set aside on a plate.
4. When the beefiness is done cooking, add in the onion and garlic, and let soften a few minutes. Add in the balsamic vinegar, and deglaze the pan. Rub upwardly any blackened $.25 left behind past the beef, then that information technology becomes a part of the sauce.
5. When suitably deglazed, add in the tomato paste and stir through. Add together the beefiness + juices back in, and toss with the flour. Permit that melt ane-two minutes, and so add together in wine, water, beef broth, sugar, thyme, bay leafage, and stir together. Bring to a boil, and and so pop a hat on top, and stick into the pre-heated oven for three hours.
vi. Almost 1/two hour away from the stew being done, bring a pot of water to boil. Add in the cut broccoli and melt about 2 minutes, or until bright green and tender. Immediately strain out and put in an ice bath to maintain that pretty greenish colour.
7. Bring dorsum to a boil and popular in the carrot and potatoes. Cook both until easily pierced with a knife or fork. For carrots, this will have almost viii minutes. The potatoes will accept longer, particularly since they're in big chunks, probably xv-20 minutes. Remove both equally they finish cooking and set aside.
8. Afterward three hours, remove stew from the oven. Remove the thyme, bay leaf, garlic, and onion slices.
nine. Serve up! Dish up the meat first, and so add the stew base to the dish. Carefully garnish with spud, broccoli, and and so carrot. And at present it's done!
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