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Ossobuco alla Milanese

Big flavor, simple recipe! Where does all this taste come from? Classic Italian comfort food: beef braised in wine. Old Sam makes Ossobuco alla Milanese, a great dish for a crowd. A restaurant-worthy, step-by-step recipe that's genuinely easy and delicious.

Old Sam

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Beef (Beef shank, bone-in with marrow)

Flour

200

Celery

Carrot

Onion

Parsley

Garlic

Lemons

White wine

100

Butter

Vegetable oil

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 43 % 13 g

Fats 27 % 8 g

Carbohydrates 30 % 9 g

164 kcal

GI: 22 / 0 / 78

Cooking method

Step 1:
1. Start with the vegetables: cut the onion and celery into a medium dice, and cut the carrots into medium matchsticks.
Step 2:
1. Now for the meat. Dredge each piece in flour on both sides, then sear in a mix of butter and vegetable oil until deeply browned and crusty on both sides.
Step 3:
1. Repeat with all the pieces of meat. Season them with salt and pepper to taste and transfer to a large pot along with a few extra marrow bones. Pour in enough boiling water to leave the top piece about half exposed. Set the pot over the heat right away.
Step 4:
1. While the water comes to a boil, brown the vegetables one at a time. Lightly cook the carrots first; once they take on a bit of color, add the celery. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, then add the onion. Pour in the star ingredient, the white wine, and cook over high heat until the alcohol has cooked off. Add the vegetables to the meat and braise over low heat for 2.5 hours, topping up with water as needed.
Step 5:
1. A key part of ossobuco alla Milanese is the gremolata. Make it just before serving, since the lemon zest loses its fragrance fast. Finely mince the garlic. Pull the parsley leaves off the stems and finely chop them too. Combine the garlic and parsley with the zest of half a lemon. Season with a little salt if you like.
Step 6:
1. Enjoy, everyone! Serve topped with the gremolata. Recipe by Old Sam.

Ossobuco alla Milanese looks fancy at first glance, but even a beginner can pull it off, and that's Italian cooking in a nutshell: simple, honest food. If you want easy recipes, Italian dishes are the way to go. Back to the ossobuco: behind that intimidating name is a very straightforward recipe built around beef shank, one of the cheapest cuts at the market, precisely because a bone runs right through the center. That bone is exactly what we want here, since the marrow is the highlight of the dish (I go into detail about it in the video). Along with the meat, we use vegetables and white wine, which turn this humble recipe into something close to a work of art. It's a rich, juicy, satisfying meat dish, and mashed potatoes make the perfect side, since braised meat in wine is the real star. Enough talk though, let's get cooking, because it's just that good.