Another meal for one, tonight beef cooked in stout, rich and tasty. The ingredients used are thyme, mustard, stout, carrots, garlic, bay leaves, shallots, onions, beef shin, worcestershire sauce; and mashed potatoes made from sour cream, butter and potatoes(obviously).
Dice up the onion, garlic, and one of the carrots.
Brown the shin on both sides. Remove from the pot. Add the diced carrot and onion and cook until soft and beginning to colour.
Test that the beer is of a suitable quality.
Pour the quality tested beer in to the pot along with a spoon of mustard, the thyme and bay leaves. Reduce. Once it has reduced by half put the beef back in and cook on high pressure for about 20 minutes (or I guess a slow simmer for about 60? if conventional).
While it's cooking, chop the remaining carrot in to bite size pieces, and peel the shallots. Cook the potatoes.
After 20 minutes, and 10 minutes on natural pressure release (or about 5-10 min before the 60 is up) remove the beef and strain the liquid discarding the vegetables. Reduce the liquid (if needed). Add the carrots, shallots and beef back to the pot with the liquid and cook for 4 minutes under pressure.
While it's cooking, mash the potatoes with butter and sour cream, season well.
Serve.
My favorite bit of the shin is the marrow.
