Braised Beef Short Ribs for an Anniversary Dinner! Delicious, braised, fall off the bones beef short ribs. This is so delicious!
On Monday, my husband and I celebrated our wedding anniversary. . 7 years! We started dating in 2005, but I feel like I’ve known my husband forever. Like every marriage, we have our good days and bad days, but at the end of the day, we love each other and I am very thankful for him. If you read my blog, you know my husband is a meat lover so I, of course, wanted to cook these short ribs for him. On our anniversary.
This recipe is also on my culinary bucket list so I was extremely excited for this! Since I am a food blogger and cook a lot, I am often flipping through magazines, reading blogs, reading cookbooks and watching cooking shows. But when I need something special for a special occasion, I almost always go to Food & Wine magazine or the Cooking Channel for inspiration. These resources have never steered me wrong. I believe it when they say the recipes have been “perfected in our test kitchen.”
These Braised Beef Short Ribs. Oh my goodness. So good. I seriously wished I had doubled the recipe because the meat was so tender, juicy and flavorful. This was absolutely delicious. I mean come on. I feel like anytime an overnight marinade is involved, you know the meat is going to be freaking awesome. I will definitely be making this again. Really really soon. And stay tuned for tomorrow’s post. What we had for dessert: Chocolate Lava cakes!
And since we were celebrating our wedding anniversary, I just want to say this. I can’t imagine not being able to marry the person I love and that union not be recognized. Marriage equality for all.
Braised Beef Short Ribs for an Anniversary Dinner
Equipment
- Dutch oven with lid
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 to 6 flanken-style short ribs with bones cut 2 inches thick
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1 large onion finely chopped
- 2 carrots sliced
- 3 celery ribs sliced
- 3 garlic cloves sliced thickly
- 1 750-milliliter bottle dry red wine such as a Cabernet Sauvignon (use a good one! You always want to use a wine that you would enjoy drinking.)
- 4 thyme sprigs
- 1 fresh rosemary sprig
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 cups beef stock
Instructions
- In a pot or Dutch oven over medium high heat, add the olive oil and let the pot get hot. Season the beef short ribs with salt and pepper all over, on both sides. Add them to the pot and cook, flipping every 4 minutes, until browned and crusty on all sides, for about 15 to 18 minutes. Transfer the ribs to a shallow baking dish in a single layer to set aside.
- Add the onion, carrots, celery and garlic to the pot (with all the lovely brown bits) and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until very soft and lightly browned, about 18 to 20 minutes. Add the wine and thyme, rosemary and a bay leaf and bring to a boil over high heat. Pour the hot marinade over the ribs and let cool. Cover and refrigerate overnight, turning the ribs once.*
- When ready to cook, preheat the oven to 350°. Transfer the ribs and marinade to a large, enameled cast-iron Dutch oven. Add the beef stock and bring to a boil. Cover and cook in the lower third of the oven for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until the meat is tender but not falling apart. Check your ribs after one hour. Uncover and braise for another 30 to 45 minutes longer, turning the ribs once or twice, until the sauce is reduced by about half and the meat is very tender.
- Transfer the meat to a clean shallow baking dish, discarding the bones as they fall off. Strain the sauce into a heatproof measuring cup and skim off as much fat as possible. Pour the sauce over the meat; (there should be about 2 cups of sauce).
- Preheat the broiler. Broil the meat, turning once or twice, until glazed and sizzling, about 5 minutes. Watch your meat and make sure it does not burn. Transfer the meat to plates, spoon the sauce on top and serve. You can serve with mashed potatoes, buttered noodles or crusty bread.
Notes
Recipe from Food and Wine.
Recently, I tried Chef Billy Parisi’s recipe, and it was divine! Check this one out. No overnight marinade time and only uses 2 cups of red wine, I also love the addition of the tomato paste. Highly recommend!
(I did not add much sauce for the photos because I wanted to try to keep the plate looking clean. When you eat this, be generous with the sauce if you like. It’s delicious!)
Oh Alice, happy anniversary my friend! To you and to Paul. I would be glad to have this for dinner too. It´s awesome, the wine and long cooking just makes meat an incredible experience! I´m pinning this one. If you like F&W so much, I recommend their annual cookbooks. They´re fantastic! I use them soooo much. And it spares me so many magazines, which are hard to get here and a pain sometimes to subscribe being so far away. I got old ones (2005/07) for $4 at Barnes & Noble. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=node%3D6&field-keywords=food+and+wine+annual+cookbooks
Thank you, Paula! I have the 2012 annual cookbook and their “Fast” cookbook for recipes in 30 minutes or less! Totally going to look into getting the old ones, what a great idea! I love Food and Wine!
Happy Anniversary, Alice. Looks like you had a lovely meal to go with a lovely day. 🙂 The flavor profile on those ribs sounds wonderful and I bet they were very tasty, indeed.
Happy anniversary once again to you and Paul! You guys are just too cute together. I always love reading your posts about your family because you are so sweet but also refreshingly honest about what it takes to keep a relationship and family going. It’s a lot of hard work but it’s worth it, right? These ribs are indeed the perfect celebratory dinner – I’d be in heaven if someone made these for me. I’m definitely going to try this recipe. I’ve never used any of Food & Wine’s recipes but if you and Paula both think so highly of them, I’m going to start. I just scrolled through your post again to stare at these gorgeous photos – that is one amazing plate of food!
I’ve always wanted to make braised short ribs, too! I need to do this before it get’s too hot and I don’t want to use my oven.
Meghan, you must try this recipe! 🙂 Hope you get to it before it gets too hot. 🙂
Alice, so sorry for the belated wishes. Wishing you another wonderful journey with Paul. We both adore beef short ribs and I might follow your footsteps making this for our anniversary next month. Cheers to both of you!