Best Potted Stuffed Beef Heart And Madeira Gravy Recipes

MAKE-AHEAD MADEIRA GRAVY

Steps:

• Heat the butter in a wide saucepan over a medium heat. Sizzle the onion, carrots, bay leaves and thyme in the pan for 15 mins until the veg starts to brown. Scatter over the sugar and continue to cook for a further few minutes until sticky and caramelised. Stir in the flour until sandy. Cook for 1 min, then add the Marmite, tomato purée, vinegar and soy sauce to make a sticky paste. Pour over the madeira and bubble for 1 min.
• Add the stock, then crush the veg with a potato masher. Bubble everything together for 10 mins until you have a thickened sauce that just coats the back of a spoon. Sieve and use straightaway as a veggie gravy or as the base to a turkey gravy. Can be cooled, then frozen for up to three months.

MADEIRA GRAVY

Steps:

• Gradually mix the madeira into the flour until smooth. Heat the stock in a pan, then pour in the flour mixture and mustard, stirring until thickened. Chill until ready to serve, covering the surface with cling film to stop a skin forming. On the day, reheat in a pan with the turkey juices until bubbling.

POTTED STUFFED BEEF HEART AND MADEIRA GRAVY

Steps:

• Heat 2 tablespoons butter in Dutch oven and saute onions and celery until tender.
• Stir in rice.
• Add poultry seasoning, salt, and pepper, and set aside.
• Remove cords and excess fat from heart.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Sew heart partially closed with large needle and heavy thread, leaving a pocket.
• Fill with rice mixture (if any is left over, heat separately).
• Sew closed.
• Heat remaining butter and oil in Dutch oven until bubbly.
• Add heart and brown on all sides.
• Add water.
• Cover and simmer over low heat until tender, about 3 hours.
• Remove heart and let rest 15-20 minutes.
• Remove threads and slice thin.
• For gravy:.
• Blend flour and wine.
• Stir flour mixture into pan juices and cook and stir until slightly thickened.
• Sprinkle parsley over meat and serve with gravy.

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH STUFFED BEEF HEART

Steps:

• Soak heart in cold water one hour.
• Wash thoroughly and remove large arteries and veins.
• Combine remaining ingredients and fill heart.
• Tie securely with cooking twine.
• Cover with boiling water and simmer for three hours or until meat is tender.
• Remove heart from water 1/2 hour before serving and sprinkle with additional cracker crumbs, salt and pepper.
• Bake at 350°F until golden brown.
• Carve crosswise in 1/2 inch slices.

BEEF HEART JERKY FOR DOGS

Steps:

• Cut the heart in 1/2" by 1/2" strips.
• sprinkle with a light dusting of garlic powder if using.
• place on dehydrator trays with plenty of room between the strips.
• dehydrate at 150F for approximately 20 hours.
• If you don't own a dehydrator, this can be done in your oven on it's lowest setting with the oven door propped open an inch or two.

MADEIRA GRAVY

Steps:

• Heat oil and add flour. Cook until flour is nut brown.
• add mushrooms and stock and stir for 2 - 3 minutes Then leave over a gentle heat for for 10 minutes.
• Add soy and sherry/madeira.
• Serve.

BRAISED BEEF HEART

Steps:

• Trim any fat off the heart. Use a pair of kitchen scissors to cut off any large pieces of the connective tissue around the top of the meat.
• Roll into a roast form and tie with string.
• Brown in the oil on all sides.
• Put in a dutch oven and add the onion, cut into about 8 pieces, and all the other ingredients, except the bread crumbs.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 4 hours, turning every hour.
• After 2 hours, add the bread crumbs.
• When done, remove heart and use an immersion blender or regular blender to smooth the gravy. If desired, you can thicken the gravy some more with a water and flour mixture, bringing it to the boil.
• Slice the heart lengthwise into 1/4" slices.

MADEIRA MUSHROOM GRAVY (TO GO WITH OVEN ROAST)

Steps:

• Combine water, 2 tbsp butter and lemon juice in a saucepan, bring to a boil and reduce heat to low and add mushrooms, cover and cook 5 minutes Pour off the fat from the roasting pan.
• Add 1/4 cup butter to the pan and place over medium high heat, stir butter to melt and add the onions, saute until transparent Drain mushroom liquid and add to the pan.
• Add beef broth, tomato paste and madeira wine, blend well.
• Stir in the mushrooms and flour.
• Stir until the gravy is slightly thickened.
• Season to taste Serve.

LEFTOVER MAGIC BEEF

Steps:

• Heat oil in large skillet over high heat.
• Add broccoli florets, mushrooms and carrots, saute 2 minutes.
• Add water, bring to a boil. Crumble in noodles (not seasoning packets).
• Simmer, covered, 3 minutes or until noodles are almost soft.
• Stir in beef strips and stir-fry sauce. Simmer uncovered 1 minute more or until noodles are soft.

BRAISED STUFFED BEEF HEART

Steps:

• Season meat inside and out with salt and pepper.
• Stuff heart with prunes and chopped apple.
• Close opening with skewers.
• Melt 2 tablespoons of the shortening in a heavy pan with a lid.
• Brown meat on all sides,
• Remove meat from pan.
• Add onion and remaining shortening.
• Saute onion until softened.
• Return meat to pan.
• Add water.
• Cover and simmer 1 1/2 hours, or until meat is tender, adding more water if necessary.
• Add apple halves to pan.
• Cover and simmer 15 minutes, or until tender.
• Remove meat and apples to serving plate and keep warm.
• Place onion and pan drippings in bowl of food processor and puree.
• Place 2 teaspoons jelly in each apple half.
• Slice meat across the grain and serve with pureed onion mixture.
• Variation: Instead of fruit, stuff heart with fresh parsley.