Beef Cheeks

karenz, Jan 11, 5:36am
Bought some of these in Moore Wilson Fresh today, anyone have any experience of cooking these!

davidt4, Jan 11, 5:39am
Beef cheeks have fantastic flavour and texture, and have a lot of connective tissue.They are best braised or casseroled at a low temperature.They will need about five hours at 150C, longer is better.

karenz, Jan 11, 5:44am
Thanks, I have come across this recipe, do you think it is a good option!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/braised_beef_cheeks_and_14349

davidt4, Jan 11, 5:52am
That looks great.I think I would give it six hours though, not three.

tiogapass1, Jan 11, 6:08am
You could brown then cook in a pressure cooker.

bedazzledjewels, Jan 11, 6:19am
I cooked a Michel Roux Jr recipe recently and they worked out well. About 3 hours at 180C for 3 hours -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/braised_beef_cheeks_with_15457

karenz, Jan 11, 6:24am
That looks amazing too, appears the key is overnight preparation, will try one of these next week, those BBC recipes are really good I tried the steak and oyster guinness pie recipe from that site, splendid.

anne1955, Jan 11, 6:27am
Any type of cheeks are just so wonderful hard to be able to buy them though.yummy slower cooker stuff red wine slow cooked Wish we could get things like that down here :(

karenz, Jan 11, 6:46am
This is the first time Moore Wilsons have stocked them, they are not expensive either $10.95 a kilo, looking forward to cooking them, possibly the next fashionable thing like pork belly seems to be now.

millseys, Jan 11, 8:37am
Oh I am going to bookmark this thread! When we had our latest home kill done we kept the cheeks for the first time ever

indy95, Jan 12, 1:10am
And of course, as soon as that happens the price will go sky-high just like oxtail and lamb shanks.

bedazzledjewels, Jan 12, 1:48am

karenz, Jan 12, 5:54am
Yes and now pork hocks, blardy TV chefs have a lot to answer for.