Recipe Review - Organic Corned Beef with Orange Sauce - Healthy Eating Book p30

[Tasty]

This recipe is from Cyndi O'Meara's book.

This is not something I would normally make so not sure what it's supposed to taste like however I thought I would give it a go, in order to use some of my cookbooks again.

I bought too much silverside so had to cut it in half in order for it to fit inside the steaming basket as suggested in the recipe but I'm sure I could've used the whole thing and stuck it in the Varoma instead. It does need a bit of prep which I didn't realise until I started making it but had leftovers to eat for dinner that night anyway, so all ok. You have to prepare the day and a half ahead by curing it.

I forgot to add water during the cooking process which would've affected the result so make sure you use a timer to remind you.

The smell of the orange sauce with cloves is amazing and it tasted nice too.

The meat was not well cooked (mainly due to the fact that I did not do as recipe stated) but I can see how it would work out. Mine was a bit undercooked and chewy. I was going to try it again with the other half of the silverside I had left over but never found the time. Oh and I didn't use biodynamic silverside as stated in the recipe, just the regular stuff you find in Woollies. Likewise with the manuka honey.

Here is a photo anyway:

[judydawn]

Thanks for trying and reviewing this one Tasty.  Back in 2009 I asked if anyone had tried it but no-one answered me - people weren't into steaming meat in the Thermomix then. Then when the question was asked again in 2011, everyone said they only do it the traditional way until finally trudyo tried Cyndi's recipe.  Here's her comment from that thread

'I've made Cyndi's corned beef recipe and it was absolutely beautiful.  I cut a piece of beef silverside in half and put it in the basket after salting etc and although it was a small piece was delicious.  Have done it a number of times now.  I prefer the usual white sauce though'.

Now of course, many of us are using the varoma dish to cook our silverside or pickled pork.  Recipe here.