Swiss Beef

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

Name of Recipe: Swiss Beef

This is our family's favourite meal.  Very simple, but so tasty!  We hope you enjoy it too. 

Number of People: Serves 4 adults (with steamed veg).

Ingredients:
A handful of fresh parsley
1 onion, peeled and quartered
100g bacon rashers
50g olive oil
500g casserole steak – trimmed and diced
500g beef stock
Salt and pepper to taste.
160g white rice (long grain)

Preparation:
Place parsley into bowl and chop for 5 seconds on speed 5.  Set aside.
Place onion and bacon into bowl and chop for 3-4 seconds on speed 5. Scrape down bowl.
Add olive oil and sauté for 3 minutes, 100⁰, reverse speed 1.
Add steak and sauté for 3 minutes, 100⁰, reverse soft speed.
Add 250g of stock and salt & pepper and cook for 25 minutes, 100⁰, reverse soft speed.
Add rice and remaining stock and continue cooking for a further 20 minutes, 100⁰, reverse soft speed.
Add chopped parsley and stir through for 10 seconds, reverse speed 3.
Serve with steamed greens.  Enjoy.

Tips/Hints:
I have tried to steam veg in the varoma whilst the Swiss Beef was cooking, but it doesn't work well on the 100⁰ temperature setting.  The Swiss Beef can be kept warm in the thermoserve however whilst veggies are being steamed in the varoma for a complete family meal.

[judydawn]

Thanks Chelsea, love quick & easy meat dishes.

[Thermomixer]

Good work - no the vegies don't tend to cook - but you can cook some custards/timbales at that temp - something to try.

[judydawn]

Hi Chelsea, we had this for lunch today and both of us really enjoyed it.  I left it in the bowl after it finished cooking and made a quick (?) phone call to a friend.  1 hour later it was time to serve lunch and I was surprised the meal looked like a risotto, having sat there for that long.  Is this how yours turns out or would it have had a different texture if I'd have served it immediately it was cooked? No matter what though, it was delicious and am thinking chicken could be substituted along with canned tomatoes for a completely different meal.  Thanks for posting it.

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

I'm glad you enjoyed it JD.  Yes it does look like a risotto - even after 5 minutes in the thermoserve.  My hubby said it was the best "risotto" I've ever made (hehehe).  It reheats really well as the rice doesn't go mushy like aborio sometimes can.

[judydawn]

Thanks for that.  We don't particularly like risotto in this house but we really enjoyed your dish and have leftovers for another meal. DH said to make sure I let you know he enjoyed it - he thinks it's his role now in life to be the official taste tester of new recipes 

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

he thinks it's his role now in life to be the official taste tester of new recipes 

My dream job!!!   

[cookie1]

We had this last night. Chelsea it has a wonderful flavour. Yum, yum.

[faffa_70]

Made this for dinner tonight...the family loved it. Everyone thought it tasted like corned beef! Considering that is a favourite meal in this house and they don't get it very often (as I don't like the  chemicals) this could become their substitute to hold over the begging lol 

[cookie1]

Perhaps it was the bacon in it.

[Very Happy Jan]

I made a chicken version of this for dinner tonight and it was great. Used 800gm chicken thighs and as I only had brown rice I parboiled it first because I though everything else would turn to mush before the rice cooked. I only needed 250ml chicken stock and threw in some peas for the last few minutes. A very tasty and quick meal. Thank you Chelsea

[faffa_70]

we had the discussion last night about using chicken instead lol and also adding peas at the end. Funny how we all start thinking along similar lines

[bron]

Hey Jan, did you remove the bone on the thighs?

[obbie]

Hi, I made this for dinner last night.
Yum.

Thanks,

Robyn

[Very Happy Jan]

Hey Jan, did you remove the bone on the thighs?

Yes I did. I actually though I had taken thigh fillets out of the freezer but they turned out to be cutlets Oh well they were easy to bone out.