Beef Stew- Meat Always Ends Up Dry, Help Please?!
Beef Stew- Meat Always Ends Up Dry, Help Please?
I am such an amateur.
The beef stew recipes always call for cooking the meat for an hour and a half to two hours, or "until meat is tender". The meat never seems to get to "tender", just directly goes to dry & hard. Yes I have tried shortening the cooking time before.
This is regular stew meat that is already in one inch cubes.
Help a lady in culinary distress?
13 hours ago
Thank You For All the Tips :)
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Answers:
Next time, you could try buying a different cut of meat and cubing it yourself. Ask your butcher, he knows. ALso the cooking time for tender meat has to be long, really long. Have you ever cooked in a pressure cooker? that would work for sure. Make your stew and put it in the pressure cooker, close the lid and when it starts to fizzle, count 45 minutes and voila! you have tender meat. You can also do it slowly in a crock pot. Make your stew and put in crock pot when you go to bed, at a low setting. Come morning you'll wake up to tender delicious stew.