Pressure-cooker beef cheeks with orange and bay
Cheeks are the most collagen-heavy cut on the animal, which normally means three hours. Under pressure it is forty-five minutes, and this is the one place the machine genuinely beats the oven.
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Ingredients
For the whole dish · serves 4
- Beef cheeks1¼ lb
- Beef stock27 fl oz
- Butter1½ oz
- Shallot4
- Orangea wide strip of zest only
- Bay leavesthree
- Black peppercornsa teaspoon
- Sea saltto taste
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+3g net · 95 kcal · 10 min · together 7g net, 480 kcal
Method
6 steps · 75 minutes
- Brown the cheeks properly first, in the pot, on saute mode. Pressure cooking adds no color at all and a pale braise tastes of nothing.
- Zest only, no juice and no pith. The pith turns the whole pot bitter under pressure in a way it would not in an oven.
- Deglaze with a little stock and scrape the base completely clean before the lid goes on, or it will trigger a burn warning.
- Forty-five minutes at high pressure, then let it release naturally. A quick release tears braised meat apart.
- Lift the cheeks out and reduce the liquid hard on saute mode for 10 minutes. Nothing evaporates under pressure, so the sauce is always thin at this stage.
- Butter whisked in off the heat at the end, which is what gives it the gloss an oven braise gets for free.
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