These slow cooked Beef Cheeks are braised in a beautiful red wine sauce until they are so meltingly tender, you can eat slow cooker beef cheeks in red wine with a spoon! The braising liquid in this Beef Cheeks recipe is infused with incredible flavour and when pureed, transforms into a thick, luscious gravy-like sauce. Perfectly accompanied with creamy mashed potatoes, this is a very easy dish that is suited to an elegant dinner party or a hearty midweek meal.
Make this in your slow cooker, pressure cooker or on the stove! Slow Cooked Beef Cheeks This is a magnificent dish that takes a budget cut of beef and transforms it with little effort into a dish that you’ll find on the menu of fine dining restaurants. Little known fact: Beef cheeks are the KING of all slow cooking cuts of beef! Beef Cheeks are the cheek muscle of cows and they are a very tough cut of meat that needs to be cooked long and slow to make it tender. It absorbs the flavours of braising liquid well and when you cut into it, it is stringy, almost like pulled pork. And THAT is what makes them so special! Overhead photo of Slow Cooked Beef Cheeks with Red Wine Sauce in a pot, fresh off the stove ready to be served.
What you need for this Beef Cheeks recipe We’re making a fine dining quality dish here, but it just calls for a trip to your local grocery store! Beef Cheeks 5 years ago, they were cheaper and weren’t always available in the large supermarkets here in Australia. But nowadays, thanks to shows like Masterchef and My Kitchen Rules, the price has been driven up but on the plus side, they are now regulars at mainstream stores like Coles and Woolies! Beef Short Ribs would be an ideal substitute. 8oz chunks so the same cooking times and liquid quantities in this recipe will apply. This is a magnificent dish that takes a budget cut of beef and transforms it with little effort into a fine dining restaurant dish!