Braised Beef Short Ribs

Braised Beef Short Ribs is an easy, hearty, time consuming dish but very worth it! This quick short rib recipe is made of beef short ribs seasoned with salt and pepper. These are seared before making the base sauce by sauteing the aromatics of onion, garlic, some carrots, celery, tomato paste, red wine, beef broth, and thyme. All these turns into a delightfully fall off the bone savory beef dish.

Braised Beef Short Ribs Recipe :

Ingredients

• 1 kilo beef short ribs
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 onion ( minced )
• 2 cloves garlic ( minced )
• 2 pieces carrots ( chopped )
• 1 piece celery rib ( chopped )
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 400 ml red wine
• 500 ml beef broth
• 2 pieces bay leaves
• 1 twig thyme
• Chopped spring onion for garnishing
• Olive oil

Steps:

1. Prepare the beef short ribs by seasoning these with salt and pepper. Heat some oil in a pan and sear both sides of the beef ribs. Then take these out.
2. In the same pan, saute onions until soft. Cook garlic until aromatic. Cook carrots and celery until slightly tender. Then add in tomato paste and mix well.
3. Pour in red wine and beef broth. Place in bay leaves and thyme. Add more salt and pepper to taste. Place in seared beef, cover and cook for 1 & ½ hours.
4. Stir often. Once beef is tender and sauce has slightly thickened. Take these off the heat and serve over mashed potatoes. And set aside.
5. Strain the remaining sauce and vegetables. Mash and pour the sauce all over the meat. Decorate with spring onions and Enjoy !

How to make these Braised Beef Short Ribs

While it does take time and looks intimidating, this dish only have just a few steps-around 3 – 5 steps to make! A delectable pot roast you can make in many ways and even flavor with different kinds of seasonings. You’ll surely be glad to give this a try, not only will it impress your tastebuds, it’ll impress any guest.

These tasty beef short ribs are first made by seasoning the short beef ribs with salt and pepper. Season these well before searing in a pan with a bit of oil. Once all the slides have slightly browned, take this out. To make the base sauce; saute onions until soft, garlic until aromatic, then saute the carrots until lightly browned or slightly tender. Add in some tomato paste and mix well before pouring in the red wine and beef broth. The red wine will impart a deep and rich flavor. Mix in bay leaves and thyme for more aroma and flavor before adding more salt and pepper. Add back the seared beef, mix well and cover and simmer for at least 1 & ½ hours or until the beef turns tender and the sauce has thickened. Take the beef ribs out and place these on top of some mashed potatoes. To make the sauce, strain the vegetables and remaining sauce while mashing the vegetables. Pour the stained sauce over the beef and decorate with some spring onions. Enjoy this warm.

Questions : 

• Braised beef short ribs, no wine? Use this instead :

Want a short rib dinner but don’t have wine around? Then try this “Beer Braised Beef Short Ribs” ( Beer Braised Short Ribs ). Use a can of beer instead. This helps give it a deeper, slightly caramelized and earthy flavor.

• Other ingredients
  • Want a fuller dish? Make “Beef Short Ribs with Carrots and Potatoes”.
  • To make Italian Braised Short Ribs – add these seasonings; red pepper flakes, oregano, rosemary, thyme, and a bit of balsamic vinegar. You can also add pancetta or bacon and cook these to melt the oils and use these instead of regular oil.
  • Garlic Braised Short Ribs – adding more or less a cup of whole (peeled) garlic cloves once you start simmering.
  • Cuban Beef Short Ribs Recipe – try adding these seasonings; oregano, cumin, smoked paprika, and some honey as a sweetener.
  • For Jamaican Short Ribs – being on the slightly sweeter side, it has some sugar, or the spice a few drops of scotch bonnet pepper and smoked paprika, a bay leaf, thyme, and ketchup.
  • A popular Asian Braised Beef Short Ribs would be “Braised Beef Short Ribs Korean version” which is also called “Galbijjim”. Which has a braising liquid made of soy sauce, honey and or brown sugar, pear, rice wine, garlic, onion, ginger, and sesame oil.

• Other choices of meat
  • Braised Boneless Beef Short Ribs – Use boneless beef ribs for “Braised Beef Short Ribs Boneless” which also quickens the cooking time since removing the bones cooks the beef faster.
  • Use another slice of meat like beef flanks for “Braised Flanken Style Short Ribs recipe”.
  • Aside from braised pork ribs, use other meats like Pork chunks. Though use the leaner parts to avoid the pork fats from melting too much and drowning the meat and vegetables.
  • You can also use Chicken or other poultry like this “Veal Short Ribs Recipe”. Though when using poultry, do note to cook these just for half an hour or less.

• Other ways of cooking : 
  • Braised Short Ribs Dutch Oven – to make this simply cook everything in a dutch oven instead of a nonstick pan. Then once everything is cooked. Instead of simmering the beef ribs over a stove. Place the dutch oven with an oven safe lid in a 350°F or 176°C preheated oven. Bake this for 30 – 45 minutes until the beef ribs are tender.
  • Braised Beef Short Ribs Slow Cooker – For this “Short Rib Recipe Slow Cooker” after searing the meat, add in all of the ingredients and cook in the slow cooker at low heat for 6 – 8 hours or until the beef is tender.
  • For Oven Braised Beef Short Ribs – closely resembling the Braised Beef Short Ribs Dutch Oven. Once the beef is seared and the vegetables are lightly cooked with the aromatics. Follow the steps below but cook these in a oven safe pan or pot. Cook for 2 hours or more depending on how long it takes to make the beef tender. 

• Side Dishes for Short Ribs

Aside from mashed potatoes, you can also choose to use fries, toasted bread, Polenta, baked vegetables like carrots and potatoes, sauteed mushrooms, cauliflower, broccoli, salad, or even pickled dishes like kimchi, pickled cucumber, onions, or simply side with some rice.

Other Yummy Beef-y Recipes!

• Beef Stew Recipe
• Garlic Pepper Beef
• Beef Ampalaya ( Beef and bitter gourd )
• Beef Salpicao ( a buttery garlick-y beef dish )
• Beef Nuggets
• Beef Broccoli
• Beef Steak ( Bistek )

Braised Beef Short Ribs Resipi: (Tagalog version)

• 1 kilo beef short ribs
• Asin at paminta panlasa
• 1 sibuyas ( hiniwa )
• 2 butil ng bawang ( tinadtad )
• 2 piraso karots ( hiniwa )
• 1 piraso kintsay ( hiniwa )
• 2 kutsarang tomato paste
• 400 ml red wine
• 500 ml beef broth
• 2 piraso dahon ng laurel
• 1 piraso thyme
• Tinadtad na dahon ng sibuyas pang dekorasyon
• Olive oil

Paano Lutuin :

1. Ihanda ang beef ribs, iseason ng asin at paminta. Uminit ng mantika at lutuin ang mga beef sa bawat gilid. Tanggalin ang mga ito pagkatapos.
2. Sa parehong kawali, lutuin ang mga sibuyas hanggang lumambot. Lutuin ang mga bawang hanggang bumango. Lutuin ang mga karots at kinstay hanggang lumambot ng konti. Haluin dito ang tomato paste.
3. Ibuhos dito ang red wine at beef broth. Ilagay ito ng dahon ng laurel at thyme. Dagdagan ng asin at paminta panlasa. Ibalik ang nilutong beef, takpan at lutuin ng 1 at ½ oras.
4. Haluin paminsan-minsan. Pag lumambot na ang beef at kumapal ang sarsa. Tanggalin ito sa init at ilagay ang mga ito sa itaas ng mash potatoes. Itabi.
5. Salain ang natirang sarsa at mga gulay. I-mash at buhusin ang sarsa sa itaas ng mga beef. Dekorasyonan ng dahon ng sibuyas at ienjoy !