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Venezuelan Slow-Cooked Beef with Red Peppers and Bay
Introduction
This dish of slow-cooked beef is known as ropa vieja in Cuba – rather unromantically translating as ‘old rope’, on account of how the beef looks when shredded into long strands. The Venezuelan version below includes red peppers and tomatoes: they’re usually fried and added at the end, but I love the flavour you get from cooking them alongside the beef. Bavette or skirt steak is a must here – it becomes meltingly tender after a long, slow cook, and for so few ingredients, this is really something special.
Ingredients
| beef bavette or skirt steaks | |
| red peppers, thickly sliced | |
| white onions, thickly sliced | |
| sea salt flakes | |
| boiling beef stock | |
| large tomatoes, diced | |
| Worcestershire sauce | |
| ground cumin | |
| bay leaves | |
| To serve: | |
| fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped | |
| rice and black beans |
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The Roasting Tin Around The World
Easy one-dish dinners inspired by flavours from around the world
Leave the hard work to the oven with minimal prep and less washing up
From easy midweek dinners to simple bakes and desserts
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