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Pomegranate-Braised Short Ribs Pomegranate-Braised Short Ribs. These pomegranate braised short ribs are an incredible take on comfort food! Pomegranate juice and molasses are the base of the recipe and after braising, you're left with tender, juicy and flavorful beef that is amazing served with polenta, potatoes or even in tacos.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook pomegranate braised short ribs using 24 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pomegranate Braised Short Ribs:
- Make ready 4-5 lbs short ribs, English cut
- Prepare 2 Tbsp salt
- Take 1 onion, diced
- Take 1 carrot, diced
- Prepare 2 Tbsp ras el hanout
- Prepare 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Make ready 4 cups pomegranate juice
- Make ready 1 cup water
- Take 1 Bou beef bouillon cube
- Make ready 1 cup pitted prunes, halved
- Prepare 1 handful cilantro, roughly chopped
- Get 1 Tbsp toasted sesame seeds
- Make ready ras el hanout
- Prepare 12 green cardamom pods
- Take 4 black cardamom pods
- Take 4 tsp cumin seed
- Make ready 4 tsp coriander seed
- Prepare 2 tsp anise
- Get 1/2 tsp allspice berries
- Take 1/2 tsp black peppercorns
- Make ready 4 tsp ground ginger
- Prepare 2 tsp Aleppo pepper
- Make ready 2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Prepare 2 tsp ground cinnamon
First of all, short ribs are such a great meal for entertaining. All the hands-on work you do is in the beginning, then the oven finishes it. Plus, they need to cook for a long time so it's the perfect recipe to put on early in the day so that later in the day you can focus on other entertaining things. Serve ribs with parsley and pomegranate seeds.
Instructions to make Pomegranate Braised Short Ribs:
- Heat the oven to 450°F. If you have a convection oven use it.
- In a large roaster or sheet pan, lay out the short ribs, bone side down. Season liberally with salt.
- Roast in the oven 40-45 min until browned and the fat has rendered. Remove the ribs from the pan, pour the fat off into a glass bowl, and return the ribs to the pan and roast another 10-15 min.
- While the ribs are roasting prepare the other ingredients.
- When the ribs are about 5 minutes from done, heat 1 Tbsp of the beef fat in a dutch oven over high heat. Add the onion and carrot and cook until translucent (~5 min)
- Add the garlic and ras el hanout and cook another 30 sec.
- Add the water and beef bouillon and turn the heat to low.
- Remove the ribs from the pan and add them to the dutch oven. Add the prunes on top. Turn the oven down to 300°F.
- In the still hot pan, add the pomegranate juice.
- Scrape the fond up with a whisk or wooden spoon.
- Add the pomegranate to the ribs.
- Cover and place in the oven for 2-2.5 hours.
- Remove the dutch oven from oven.
- Place the ribs in a bowl.
- Add the braising liquid, veggies, and any meat scraps to a blender and blend until smooth.
- Return the sauce to the dutch oven, and add the ribs to coat. Toss with cilantro and sesame seeds.
For an extra festive presentation, garnish the short ribs with colorful pomegranate arils (seeds) and fresh parsley or mint (or both!). In a saucepan, combine half the barbeque sauce with half the pomegranate juice and add the agave, to taste. Heading over to the savory side… In this recipe, the traditional Middle Eastern ingredient stars as the main flavor burst for a very hands-off Instant Pot batch of short ribs. As a very small nod to a culinary sister of pomegranate, the short ribs are served over a carrot (!) and potato mash. To Serve As An Appetizer: Pomegranate Braised Short Ribs on Crispy Polenta Cakes.
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