Family-Style Braised Beef

Name: Family-Style Braised Beef (Boeuf mode)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h 20 min
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 6 small onions; Bouquet garni, made with 3 sprigs parsley, 1 sprig thyme, and ¼ bay leaf; 9 oz. (250 g) salt pork; 6 carrots; Bouquet garni, made with 3 sprigs parsley, 1 sprig thyme, and ¼ bay leaf; 4 tablespoons (60 g) butter; Bouquet garni, made with 3 sprigs parsley, 1 sprig thyme, and ¼ bay leaf; Bouquet garni, made with 3 sprigs parsley, 1 sprig thyme, and ¼ bay leaf; About 4 oz. (125 g) fatback (for larding); ½ calf’s foot; 2 ¼ lb. (1 kg) rump roast; Salt and pepper; Salt and pepper; Generous ¾ cup (200 ml) hot water; 2 cups (500 ml) dry white wine

Boeuf mode

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 6

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
3 hr 30

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Paul Bocuse

By Paul Bocuse

Published 2014

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Ingredients

2 ¼ lb. (1 kg) rump roast
About 4 oz. (

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

About 90 minutes ahead of time, take the meat out of the refrigerator. Lard the beef with strips of fatback, using a larding pin (or ask your butcher to do it). Salt and pepper the meat and calf’s foot. Remove the rind from the salt pork and cut the salt pork into ½-in. (1-cm) cubes.

Peel the carrots, rinse them quickly and dry them. Cut them into sticks of roughly 2 in. (5 cm). Peel th