Beef Braised with Anchovies

Name: Beef Braised with Anchovies (Stracotto di Manzo alle Acciughe)
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 3 h 15 min
Yield: Serves 4 as a main course or 6 as part of a multicourse Italian meal
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil; 4 anchovy fillets; Salt; 2 pounds beef brisket or chuck; Pinch freshly grated nutmeg; Freshly ground black pepper; 6 to 8 sprigs flat-leaf Italian parsley; ½ cup white wine; 2 ounces pancetta, thinly sliced

Stracotto di Manzo alle Acciughe

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a main course

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
3 hr 30

Appears in

How to Cook Italian

By Giuliano Hazan

Published 2005

About

By the time the meat is done, the anchovies are undetectable but give this dish a distinctively rich flavor. Stracotto in Italian means “overcooked, ” and it’s the long, slow cooking process that makes this beef so tender and succulent.

Ingredients

2 ounces pancetta, thinly sliced
4 anchovy fillets
2 tablespoons

Europe
Italy
Main course
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

Finely chop the pancetta and anchovy fillets.
Put the olive oil in a heavy-bottomed braising pan and place over medium-high heat. When the oil is hot, put in the meat and brown it on all sides. Remove it from the pan and season with salt and pepper.
Put the pancetta, anchovies, and nutmeg in the pan and stir until the anchovies dissolve and the pancet