#beef heart

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['cause I'm going to be eating that evidentially. The only whole heart is a broken heart. The beef heart. Every Peruvian eats this.]

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Beyond the Yuck Factor: Why Grandma Was Onto Something With Organ Meats

Yuck Factor Remember that smell wafting from Grandma’s kitchen? The one that made you wrinkle your nose and bolt for the backyard? Chances are, she was cooking up liver and onions, or maybe simmering a pot of hearty beef heart stew. For generations, organ meats – often called offal – were prized nutritional powerhouses, central to traditional diets worldwide. But somewhere along the line, in our…

Beyond the Yuck Factor: Why Grandma Was Onto Something With Organ Meats

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I have taken over the cooking of dinuguan for special occasions in my family. This was my dad’s specialty. He is still with us, but is too frail to be taking this on.

This dish is also known as blood pudding, chocolate meat.

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Inktober Day 4: Freeze

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The Cannibal

The Royalton burger is fantastic (named for the farm where they get a lot of their meats). I usually don’t like brioche buns, but this one held up just fine. What’s inside? Dry aged wagyu beef, beef heart, malted bacon jam, Vermont cheddar, smoked tomato and frisee.

For $27 it comes with fried, and they’re great: crispy shoestring style, nicely seasoned, crisp and flavorful.

But they also sell…

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Stewed Heart of Beef with Barley and Vegetables

I’ve been flailing about my luck in getting a whole beef heart over at @fannibalgrowingcircle so I thought I’d share my recipe for Beef Heart Stew with the masses. If you can’t get actual heart, don’t fret. This recipe works just as well with chuck or shoulder. And like those cuts, heart is a hard working muscle that requires a long cooking time... so don’t rush. Your patience will be rewarded.

Ingredients:

2lbs beef heart cut into 1 inch cubes

1/4 cup flour

4 TBS olive oil (or cooking oil of choice)

one onion roughly chopped

8 oz mushrooms sliced (your choice)

3-4 cloves garlic minced

2 TBS tomato paste

1/2 cup red wine (can be anything honestly. I usually use what’s leftover from the night before)

1 can diced tomatoes in juice or puree

Beef broth (enough to cover the previous ingredients. 4 cups maybe?)

herbs of your choice (rosemary, basil, oregano)

salt and pepper

1 large bay leaf or 2 smaller ones

6 carrots peeled and cut into 1 inch pieces

1 cup pearled barley

Instructions:

Toss the beef heart with the flour and some salt. 

Add the olive oil to the bottom of a heavy bottomed pot or Dutch oven and place over medium heat. When the oil is good an hot, add the beef heart to brown. You will likely have to work in two or three batches. Remove heart to a plate and set aside.

In the remaining fat and drippings saute the onions and mushrooms until softened. Add the garlic and the tomato paste and cook for one minute more before deglazing the pan with the wine. Then add the canned tomatoes and beef broth along with the herbs, salt and pepper, and bay leaf.

Cover and allow this to simmer for about an hour. Add the carrots and then simmer for an hour more.

Add the pearled barley and simmer until the barley is tender, about half an hour.

Note that odds are good you’ll need to add some water during the cooking process. Especially if the lid to your pot is not a tight fit. Just use your judgement and taste often.

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Beef heart

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I have posted here before about the nutrition value of beef liver, nature’s “super-multivitamin”. I have even speculated that grain-fed beef liver could be particularly nutritious (citeN=citeN+1;document.write(Number(citeN))). What I should have done also was to post about beef liver’s equal in terms of nutrition value – beef heart. In this post I am correcting the omission. Contrary to popular belief, not all organ meats are inherently fatty. The fat that is attached to an animal’s heart after slaughter, even if from grain-fed cattle, can be easily removed. The resulting cut will have a very low fat-to-protein ratio; often significantly less than fat-trimmed non-organ muscle cuts. I don't say this because I consider fat to be unhealthy. In fact, dietary fat is necessary for the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins, and can thus be uniquely healthy. However, fat also is the most calorie-dense macronutrient. Even though the caloric values of macronutrients vary based on a number of factors, excess calories tend to be stored as excess body fat. A 100 g portion of cooked beef heart, as in the photos below, will have 28 g of protein and only 5 g of fat (see this link, you may have to reset the serving size field: citeN=citeN+1;document.write(Number(citeN))). The photos below show two different beef heart dishes I have prepared. In the first the beef heart was barbecued. In the second it was simmered in a pan with vegetables for about 8 h.

Below is a simple recipe for the barbecued beef heart, which I recommend cutting into steaks. For the simmered beef heart I suggest cutting it into chunks that resemble cubes; then you can just add the dry seasoning powder mentioned below to the water, some vegetables, enough water to last about 8 h, and leave it simmering. - Prepare some dry seasoning powder by mixing salt, garlic power, chili powder, and a small amount of cayenne pepper. - Season the beef heart steaks at least 2 hours prior to placing them on the grill. - Grill with the lid on, checking the meat every 10 minutes or so. (I use charcoal, one layer only to avoid burning the surface of the meat.) Turn it frequently, always putting the lid back on. - If you like it rare, 20 minutes (or a bit less) may be enough. Beef heart is a very good source of vitamins and minerals, and is one of the least expensive cuts of meat (in meat sections of grocery stores, not in paleo restaurants). Many people prefer beef heart over beef liver because of beef heart’s texture. While I have restricted my comments in this post to “beef” heart, the hearts of most animals that are eaten by humans (e.g., chicken, duck, deer, turkey) are fairly nutritious, and they seem to have that uniformly meaty texture that many people like. Here is an interesting factoid. The largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times was the now extinct Tasmanian tiger. It was an elusive and solitary animal, and the subject of the beautiful film "The Hunter (2001)" (citeN=citeN+1;document.write(Number(citeN))). The Tasmanian tiger was known to frequently eat only the hearts of prey. I hope this is not why it became extinct!