Really Good Beef Stew | Kenji's Cooking Show

beef

🥗Healthier: lean cuts of beef

💰Cheaper: pork

Pork is often less expensive and can be a leaner option.

potatoes

🥗Healthier: sweet potatoes

💰Cheaper: white potatoes

Sweet potatoes are more nutritious.

Cut chuck roast into thick steaks instead of cubes.

Season steaks with salt and pepper.

Preheat a Dutch oven with rice bran oil until it just starts to smoke.

Sear the steaks in the Dutch oven until browned on both sides.

Hydrate 2 tablespoons of powdered gelatin in 4 cups of chicken stock.

Blend the chicken stock with 2 tablespoons of tomato paste, 2 tablespoons of red miso, and a few anchovy fillets until smooth.

Set aside the blended mixture as the braising liquid.

Prepare mushrooms by quartering them without using the claw grip technique.

Brown the mushrooms in the Dutch oven after removing the steaks.

Add frozen pearl onions to the Dutch oven to brown them as well.

Cut carrots using a roll cut technique into similar-sized chunks for even cooking.

Add the carrot chunks to the browned onions and mushrooms in the Dutch oven.

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Dietary