Best Pomegranate Braised Short Ribs Recipes

POMEGRANATE-BRAISED SHORT RIBS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 275 degrees. In a large heavy pot with a tight-fitting lid, heat 2 tablespoons oil over high. Season short ribs with salt and pepper. In batches, brown ribs on all sides. Transfer to a plate, pour off oil, and wipe loose bits out of pot.
• Reduce heat to medium-high and add remaining 3 tablespoons oil to pot. Add onion, garlic, and thyme. Cook, scraping up browned bits with a wooden spoon, until onion is softened, 5 minutes. Add flour and stir to coat. Whisk in pomegranate juice and wine and bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Return ribs to pot, cover, and transfer to oven.
• Bake until ribs are easily pierced with the tip of a paring knife, about 3 hours. With a slotted spoon, carefully transfer ribs to a large platter. Strain liquid into a fat separator, let sit briefly, and return to pot, discarding fat (or, skim off fat with a spoon). Bring to a boil over medium-high and cook until reduced to a sauce-like consistency, 10 minutes. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve, season with salt and pepper, and pour over ribs. Top with pomegranate seeds.

BRAISED BEEF SHORT RIBS IN A POMEGRANATE BARBEQUE SAUCE

Steps:

• In a saucepan, combine half the barbeque sauce with half the pomegranate juice and add the agave, to taste. Bring to a simmer over medium-low heat and reduce until thick, about 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F. Line the bottom of a braising or roasting pan with the orange slices.
• Brush the reduced sauce onto the short ribs and sear in a saute pan over high heat until the sugars are nice and caramelized. Place the meat into the braising pan with the orange slices. Pour in the remaining barbeque sauce and pomegranate juice and enough water to cover the meat completely. Cover with aluminum foil and cook until the meat is tender and falling off the bone, up to 4 hours, checking often.

BEEF SHORT RIBS BRAISED IN POMEGRANATE MOLASSES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 300 degrees. Liberally salt and pepper the short ribs. Heat a heavy dutch oven over medium. Add bacon strips and cook until crisp. Remove bacon and let drain. Increase heat to medium-high, add short ribs and brown well on all sides, about 10 minutes. Remove short ribs. Remove all but about 2 tablespoons of fat from the dutch oven. Reduce heat to medium. Add chopped onions, celery, and carrot and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Add tomato paste and cook until darkened, about 2 minutes. Deglaze pan with chicken stock. Add molasses, teriyaki sauce, Worcestershire sauce, bay leaf, and thyme and bring mixture to a boil. Remove from heat and cover tightly. Place in oven for 3 hours or until short ribs are tender. Remove short ribs from the dutch oven to a platter and keep warm. Skim the excess fat from sauce. Using a stick blender, carefully puree the vegetables. Reduce the sauce on the stove. Add 2 tablespoons of butter. Add short ribs back to the dutch oven to warm them. Serve short ribs and sauce over mashed potatoes or papperdelle.

POMEGRANATE BRAISED SHORT RIBS RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Add olive oil to large pot or dutch oven over medium high heat. Liberally season short ribs with salt and pepper to taste then add short ribs to the hot pot.
• Sear ribs on all sides until golden brown. Once beef is finished searing, remove from pot, drain on paper towels, and place to the side. Using a knife, deglaze the bottom of the pan getting up all of the bits of deliciousness stuck to the bottom of the pot.
• Next add chopped onion and bacon to pan and brown until onion is tender (about 6-8 minutes). Add garlic and only cook for 30 seconds. Sprinkle in flour and stir together and cook for about 2 minutes.
• Pour in pomegranate juice, beef stock, and soy sauce then stir in brown sugar and ground ginger and whisk until everything is smooth. Add thyme sprigs then bring the braising liquid to a boil.
• Once boiling, return beef short ribs to liquid, cover with top and place in the oven for 2 - 2½ hours or until ribs are completely tender (easily separated with a fork) and the liquid has thickened into a gravy that has stuck to the ribs.
• At this point, there will be lots of fat that has rendered to the top from the ribs. You will want to scoop this out to remove it. If you have time, place the entire dutch oven in the fridge for a few hours and let the fat solidify. You can easily scoop it out then and place the oven right back on the heat to heat up. It also let's the flavors intensify even more.