Italian
Roast with Figs and Apples
by Gambero Rosso · 452K subscribers on YouTube
A succulent roast beef cooked with dried figs, fresh and dried cranberries, green apples, lardo, guanciale, and Sagrantino wine, resulting in a rich and flavourful dish.
- Cook
- 2h
- Difficulty
- medium
Ingredients
17 items- Manzocompact, well-marbled cut, 'finale dell'ombra'
- Oilfor searing and drizzling
- Butterfor searing
- Coarse Saltto taste
- Pepperto taste
- Brandyfor flambéing
- Lardocut into small pieces
- Dried Figsrehydrated in white wine
- Mirtilli Rossi Secchirehydrated in white wine
- Mirtilli Rossi Freschistems removed
- Green Applepeeled and cut into wedges
- Fresh Spring Onion
- Sagea leaf
- Chives
- Paprikasprinkle on top
- Guancialeslices to cover the meat
- Sagrantinored wine, poured around the meat
Method
- Take a compact, well-marbled piece of beef (the 'finale dell'ombra' cut).
- Sear the meat in a pan with oil and butter, adding coarse salt and pepper, and cook on all sides until browned.
- Add brandy to the pan and flambé until the flame extinguishes.
- Remove the meat and set aside.
- Cut lardo into small pieces and place in the pan.
- Add dried figs and dried cranberries that have been rehydrated in white wine, along with fresh cranberries (stems removed).
- Add a green apple, peeled and cut into wedges, along with fresh spring onion, a sage leaf, and chives.
- Sprinkle paprika over the meat and vegetables.
- Cover the meat with slices of guanciale.
- Drizzle oil over the top, place in the oven at 250°C, and pour Sagrantino wine around the meat.
- Bake for at least two hours.
- Slice the roasted meat against the grain and serve with the pan juices and accompaniments (bits of guanciale, apple, fig, etc.).
Gambero Rosso
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