Chef Ray: Slow-Cooked Coconut Beef with Pumpkin Purée, Cucumber & Coriander Salad

What a delicious recipe that is full of flavour. The ginger comes through nice and strong and brings a zing to the steak.

Slow-Cooked Coconut Beef with Pumpkin Purée, Cucumber & Coriander Salad

What a delicious recipe that is full of flavour. The ginger comes through nice and strong and brings a zing to the steak.
Keyword: Clean Eating, Grant Scofield, Healthy Eating, Healthy Food, Healthy Food Guide, Healthy Recipe, Healthy Recipes, Prof Grant, Professor Grant Scofield, What the Fat, WTF
Servings: 4

Ingredients

For the Beef

  • 500 gm beef cheek or cross-cut blade steak
  • 300 ml coconut milk 1¼ cup
  • 500 ml water 2 cups
  • lime leaves optional
  • 2 fresh chilli halved
  • lemongrass bashed
  • 50 g ginger 12½ cm piece, peeled, chopped
  • salt & pepper

For the Cucumber & Coriander Salad

  • 100 gm cucumber ½ a small, cut into ribbons
  • 15 g cashew nuts 1 Tbsp, toasted 
  • 15 g sesame seeds 1 Tbsp
  • 30 ml Lime & Lemongrass Dressing 2 Tbsp
  • 30 g bean sprouts 1 cup
  • 15 g fresh coriander 1 tbsp

For the Pumpkin Purée

  • 15 ml olive oil 1 Tbsp 
  • Onion  sliced
  • 200 g pumpkin ⅓ small, peeled seeded and roughly chopped
  • 5 piece ginger 2½ cm, peeled, chopped
  • 250 ml water 1 cup

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 160°C.
  • Sear the beef in a hot pan and transfer it to the casserole dish. Add the rest of the ingredients to the dish, reserving a quarter of the aromatics (lime leaf, lemongrass, ginger – things with aroma) for later to add freshness back into the sauce after the long cooking process. Place in the oven for approximately 2 hours.
  • Meanwhile, sweat the onion and pumpkin along with the ginger in a pot. Pour in the water and simmer for 30 minutes until tender. Drain and purée the pumpkin in a blender and season to taste.
  • When the beef is ready, remove from the cooking liquid. Transfer the liquid to a large pot, add the remaining aromatics and reduce the sauce as quickly as possible.
  • Meanwhile, make the Cucumber Salad by combining the cucumber ribbons with the rest of the ingredients and toss gently. When the sauce has reduced and thickened, place the beef on the plate, pour over some sauce, top with the salad and spoon some of the pumpkin purée either side.

Notes

From: Schofield, Grant; Zinn, Caryn; Rodger, Craig; (2015) What The Fat? Real Food Publishing Company Ltd

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Dr. Caryn Zinn is a registered dietitian and sports nutritionist. With a Master’s in sports nutrition and doctoral studies in achieving sustainable weight loss, Caryn’s mission is to influence the dietetic profession to understand the potential of improved health benefits of LCHF nutrition.

Craig Roger is a classically-trained chef with Michelin-starred restaurant experience. Craig and his family are the founders of LOOP, New Zealand’s first restaurant to feature an LCHF approach to dining out in which carb-laden fillers are replaced with nutritionally dense ingredients.

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