Idikiren Masailak Pxrekin

Beef Cheeks with Pedro Ximénez

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Preparation info
  • 6

    Raciones
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Frank Camorra and Richard Cornish

Published 2009

  • About

WHERE DOES FACT END AND MYTH BEGIN? EVERYWHERE I WENT IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY CHEFS WERE TELLING ME OF THE INCREDIBLE BEEF GROWN THERE. THAT IT WAS RARE, EXPENSIVE AND CAME FROM ANIMALS THAT WERE UP TO 12 YEARS OLD AND HAD BEEN FED ON GRASS ALL THEIR LIVES. THAT PRICKED UP MY EARS! I LOOKED FOR THIS BEEF IN THE MARKETS AND FOUND A LOT OF YEARLING AND VEAL FROM GALICIA. I WENT TO FARMS AND THE FARMERS TOLD ME THEIR BEEF WAS AROUND 2 YEARS OLD BUT HAD BEEN FED A LOT OF GRAIN. I WENT TO A BUTCHE