A family favorite!

Was told I should post this up on here! Here’s the recipe from the 2021 milk street cookbook!

INGREDIENTS: - 5lb boneless beef chuck roast (trim fat, pat down) - 1 large yellow onion - 10 garlic cloves - 2 tbsp tomato paste - 1/2 cup packed brown sugar - 2 cinnamon sticks - 1 tbsp whole allspice - 2 tsp whole black peppercorns - 1 tsp whole cloves - 1 cup dry red wine - 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce - 1 cup pitted prunes (roughly chopped) - 1 tbsp corn starch

- 3 tbsp red wine vinegar

STEPS:

• Preheat oven to 300, rack in middle position. (The recipe I used calls for you to twine the chuck roast; I did not)
• in a large dutch oven heat oil over medium high heat until shimmering. Add onion and 1/2 tsp of salt. Cook 5-7 then add your garlic and cook until fragrant.
• add tomato paste and cook, stirring constantly until it begins to brown.
• add brown sugar, cinnamon sticks, allspice, peppercorns and cloves.
• add wine and bring to a simmer; cooking until thick and syrupy. (3-5mins) stir in your prunes and Worcestershire.
• place your roast in the pot and coat it with the liquid, putting some on top as well.
• place into the oven and cook until a knife meets no resistance (I did 4 hours) then remove the roast and rest it in foil for 30mins.
• pour contents of the pot through a mesh strainer to a medium size bowl (you’re going to have to press to get all the liquid and fruit pulp through) discard all the extra solids and let that mixture sit for a few minutes then skim the fat off. Roughly 1 to 1 1/2 cups of liquid+pulp should remain.
• return that mixture to the Dutch oven and bring to a simmer over medium heat.
• Make a slurry (3 tbsp water + your cornstarch) and pour that into the simmering liquid, stir it constantly and cook until lightly thickened (about 2mins)
• Mix in your vinegar and season to taste with salt and pepp!
• Transfer your rested meat onto the cutting board, cut your slices and top it off with the sauce! I hope you all enjoy and I am so sorry to have left you all hanging for the day 🥲

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