Meat Dishes ideas: Beef Broth

Recipe Ingredients

1lb silverside of beef
3 pints cold water
half a cup of barley (pearl barley)
2 teaspoons salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
1 onion
1 parsnip
1 carrot
1 small turnip
A large piece of cabbage
3 leeks
Parsley (chopped)

Preparation and cooking instructions

Total cooking time approximately 3 and a half hours.
Start by putting the meat and the water into a large stockpot or pan and bring to the boil then gently simmer for 30 minutes. Skim off any fat. Wash the barley and add this to the pan with the salt and pepper. Simmer for a further 30 minutes. In the meantime peel and dice the onion and the parsnip, half of the turnip and half of the carrot. The rest of the carrot and turnip should be chopped into larger pieces, then and add all these vegetables to the broth, by now the broth will have been cooking for one hour. Now simmer for a further 2 hours. Meanwhile wash, shred and dry the cabbage on paper towel, wash and chop the leeks and dry on paper towel and wash and chop the parsley, then when the 2 hours is up (the broth has now been cooking for a total of 3 hours) add these vegetables to the broth. Simmer for a further 30 minutes or until the beef is cooked and the vegetables are tender. Then remove the beef and the larger pieces of vegetables from the pan, these can be served as a separate meal with potatoes. Serve the broth hot.

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