To Make Bresaola

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  1. Zimmy

    Zimmy Wait, I'm not ready!

    I inadvertently defrosted a beef tenderloin. I had just cooked one and wanted to try something different.

    I got to looking around and had trouble finding good beef recipes like you can find for pork.

    I found something called Bresaola. It's an Italian dry cured beef yet seems different from biltong and carne seca. I started the process of making it tonight.

    I'll explain my process as it goes. So far I have trimmed fat on a ~#4 piece of meat and am soaking it overnight in red wine before I dry cure it tomorrow night.
     
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  2. Dunerunner

    Dunerunner Brewery Monkey Moderator

    Sounds interesting... Can't wait for the process. [winkthumb]
     
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  3. runswithdogs

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    Mmmm Bresaola is yummy(y)
     
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  4. Zimmy

    Zimmy Wait, I'm not ready!

    Bresaola.


    Trimmed weight 5.5 pounds


    Original cure 26 May 19


    5 grams #2 Prague powder


    200 grams sea salt


    200 grams granulated sugar


    10 grams fresh ground black pepper


    15 grams coriander


    15 grams sage


    15 grams cilantro


    10 grams rosemary


    5 grams fresh ground mustard seeds

    I rubbed half of the cure ingredients on the meat and put it in a Ziploc bag. After pushing out the excess air I put it in the fridge for a week of cure. (Flipping daily)
     
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  5. Zimmy

    Zimmy Wait, I'm not ready!

    I rendered all the fat that I trimmed off and simmered it slowly until the water was all cooked out.

    I drained off the tallow for experiments in cooking and essential oil salves.

    The meat that came out of the rendering process made a pretty good machaca or carne seca when some adobo seasoning was thrown in. We did the same thing with pork when I was young as a pork preservation process. This will go in scrambled eggs with jalapeno and cheese for breakfast tacos.
     
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  6. Zimmy

    Zimmy Wait, I'm not ready!

    Today I drained off the liquids that came off the meat, dried it with a towel and added the second half of the cure mixture.

    It'll go back into the fridge for another week, flipping daily.
     
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  7. Dunerunner

    Dunerunner Brewery Monkey Moderator

    [worthless]
     
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  8. Zimmy

    Zimmy Wait, I'm not ready!

    The Bresaola after addition of the first cure IMG_20190526_104339829.

    The Carne Seca like dried meat

    IMG_20190526_104744637.

    The rendered tallow
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  9. Zimmy

    Zimmy Wait, I'm not ready!

    After another week with the second application of cure I rinsed the meat off and wrapped it in cheesecloth with enough rosemary sprigs to run the length of the loin.

    It took two months in the refrigerator to reduce weight by 30%. When the meat was unwrapped it looked like this: 582.
     
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  10. Zimmy

    Zimmy Wait, I'm not ready!

    The flavor was both buttery and beefy and the aroma was rich and floral.

    Slicing paper thin like prosciutto by hand proved impossible because of the hardness of the meat. Don't think jerky, consider it more like a 4"×2" dry salami. Once a chef friend of mine sliced it shave thin it was tender without a discernable rind.

    Several Italians both foreign and domestic were given samples and gave wholehearted approval of flavor, appearance, and texture for authenticity. Bresaola is a premier gourmet meat.

    In all, it was a good experience to make bresaola. I suppose in a winter disaster it would be a good way to preserve meat. If time involved was compared to resources required I would compare this to jerky in cost. I would still suggest biltong for efficiency in a disaster. There's a post out there on it.
     
  11. Meat

    Meat Monkey+++

    Yum.
     
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