How to make,Eat and all about beef Wallington| Chef Muneeb Abbasi
1. Introduction to Beef Wallington by Chef Muneeb Abbasi
Beef Wallington | Chef Muneeb Abbasi
The
long-awaited Beef Wallington is finally here. It’s a fully automatic,
quick-cooking beef steak from the ground up and it’s going to change the way we
think about beef. It comes in two sizes — a 1/3 pound and a 2/3 pound. We have
1/3 and 2/3 pounds of beef in stock at all times for you, so you can cook the
beef the way you like. You can also make any other meal by combining all our
products in one, which makes them even more versatile and easy to use! Beef
Wallington is made from 100% USDA Prime beef that has been marinated to enhance
flavor & texture as well as tenderize & season it.
With our newest addition—the Bef Wallington Strips — you not only get beef wallington, but also beef strips that are part of our new Strips family (they ar
e marinated too!) so you can create any dish with them and make your own version of beef wallington!
BEEF WALLINGTON:
The perfect steak made at home
Ingredients: 100% USDA Prime Beef, Garlic Seasoning and Steamed Rice (1/3 Pound or 2/3 Pound)
Recipe: What do you want? A steak? Then this is what you want! Just start cooking! Or...you could try making a meal out of BEEF WALLINGTON® Strips . You'll be amazed at how good this is! Ingredients: 1/3 Pound or 2/3 Pound Oven Baked Strips (Ingredients listed above) Allergens: Milk & Soy Dairy Eggs Fish Peanuts Gluten Sugar Substitutes Maize Soybeans Corn Cruciferous Vegetables Vinegars Buttermilk Young Coconut Milk Salt Mustard Chipotle Hot Sauce BBQ Sauce Stir Fry Ranch Garlic Pepper Honey Mustard Chili For 1 Pound Of Beef Wallington (1/3 Pound or 2/3 Pound). Directions: Place strips into oven preheated to 500°F This will take 30-60 minutes depending on how many strips you use. After 30 minutes remove strips from oven, slice into strip shapes and serve with dipping sauce if desired. For 1 Pound Of Beef Wallington (1/3 Pound or 2/3 Pound). Directions: Place strips into oven preheated to 500°F This will take 30-60 minutes depending on how many strips you use. After 30 minutes remove strips from oven,
2. What is Beef Wellington?
If
you’re not already acquainted with the beef Wellington, it’s a dish from New
Zealand which has been described as a cross between a shepherd’s pie and a
shepherd’s coq au vin. Essentially, it is the combination of corned beef and
mashed potatoes.
The
recipe for beef wallington was borrowed from chef Peter Doyle, who created it
in the early 1980s at his restaurant The Wellington Hotel in London. It
subsequently became popular in Britain and Australia, where it is known as Beef
Wellington.
The
dish has since become popular across Europe, particularly in France and
Germany; and people have also been making their own variations of the dish.
In
this post we will talk about how to make beef wallington successfully (without
using any recipes).
So
what is beef wallington? Well, let us start with a definition: “Beef Wallington
is an English-language term inspired by Beef Wellington that means the
combination of deboned beef with mashed potatoes served on toast” (Wikipedia).
To find out more, you can check out this great post on AboutCooking.com .
On
top of that, there are lots of recipes for Beef Wallington available online:
here are some:
Chef
Bryan Oz from MásAllaue (Germany) –
http://www.maspalaceseafoodtravellersguide.com/2015/09/beef-wallington-at-mamas-pierres/
Chef
John Halas from Avanti Pizza Cafe (California) –
http://www.aubrnjacksonville.com/blog/chef-john-halas-pizzas/beef-wallington/#more-4384200
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Before we get started with making beef wallinton at home, let us first go over
some basics to make it easier on you: Meat : Beef/Pork Should be Deboned or
Ground into Bits Corned Meat / Canned Venison : Good Option but expensive
Frozen Meat : Less Expensive but More Expensive than Ground Beef Homemade
Corned Beef / Canned Venison : Great Value! Homemade Ground Meat : Great Buy!
Text:
While you could use ground meats such as pork or chicken or even ground veal if
you prefer – ground meats tend to be more expensive than deboned meat so it
would be wise to choose one of those if possible. If
3. Where to Eat Beef Wallington?
The
recipe for beef wallington was created by chef Ronni Roussel of Swanepoel, a
“tastemaker” in the South African hospitality industry.
Roussel,
who is known for her creativity and innovation in food, opened Swanepoel in
2012 on her farm outside Pretoria. She wanted to create an experience with a
different outlook on food than the traditional culinary way of eating beef. Her
original idea was to serve beef wallington at a more affordable price, but she
later expanded it to include several other dishes too — including steak
tartare, prawns and even steak frites with cheese curds.
She
maintains that many people have been inspired by her product. “We’ve had so
many people come here from all over the world who say they want to bring their
own version of beef wallington and my family has introduced them to our
product”, she says.
The
creation of Beef Wallington began while Roussel was still working at a catering
company as an events manager. While serving lunch to high-profile clients or
running special events such as the student conference or wedding reception
banquet, she would often ask her colleagues what they would like if they were
dining at Swanepoel or one of its restaurants. She would then make them dream
about it — if only they could be there when she served these dishes to them!
People
are curious where this product comes from: how is it made? Does it taste good?
Does it look attractive? Is there someone else doing this in real life? All
these questions led her to think about how she could expand on this idea and
create something more sustainable for consumers in the long run (and with the
help of some talented chefs).
So
she started experimenting with different recipes — one of which included beef
wallington — at home and then started sharing them online. Once word spread
about what she had done and with how delicious it tasted, people began asking
for more information as well! Eventually, Roussel decided that everyone should
be able to enjoy this new product too so she updated her recipes online every
couple of weeks adding new ingredients each time (appearing on Instagram under
#beefwalledington).
Recently,
after many months of research and development, Roussel decided to take this
product a step further by finally launching it on its own website so that
anyone can try it right now! The recipes are easy enough for anyone to cook at
home
4. How to Make a Perfect Stuffed Beef Wellington?
Stuffed
beef Wellington has been around for a while. In fact, there is even a Wikipedia
entry for it!
But
the only thing that makes it unique is how you stuff it.
It’s
not just stuffed meat and stuffing, it’s also stuffed with a lot of other stuff
too: breadcrumbs, cheese, herbs, butter and béarnaise sauce.
So
what is the perfect way to stuff beef wallington?
1.
Breadcrumbed: You can roll out one or two loaves of bread into an egg-shaped
shape (in order to keep the filling from going to waste). This doesn’t take
much time at all — about 30 seconds per loaf — and you can use pretty much any
kind of bread you like (although I find my most preferred are French style
bakers breads). You can also use plain flour if you like (if you want to keep
the meat from getting stuck in between the layers of bread).
2.
Crisped: Once you have your loaves shaped and ready to go, just add some
butter, salt and pepper and fry them on a high heat in a pan until they are
browned on one side and crusty on the other. It’s important that they be
well-browned before adding any more ingredients — otherwise the stuffing will
get stuck in between them. The filling should hold its shape without getting
too thick or wet/oily. Then cover it with another piece of bread crumbed until
everything is well-coated (it should stay plump without leaking).
3.
Béarnaise sauce: If you want extra flavour (and more bite) then add some
béarnaise sauce at this point as well as some fresh herbs (chopped flat green
chilli peppers are good here) or lemon zest if you like your beef wallington
with lemon flavour rather than a garlic/béarnaise mix (otherwise omit this step
entirely as well as remove that element from your recipe).
4.
Cheese: For extra texture add some grated cheese before stuffing to make things
easier but leave room for expansion during cooking when done simmering so that
it gets nice and juicy inside but still retains its shape while being able to
expand quite fully when done simmering in the oven (the cheese added at this
point can be shredded rather than grated). Leave room for expansion though
because if left too long things will balloon out before being
5. Tips of Making Perfect Beef Wellington
As
we have seen with the meat industry, a lot of things can go wrong. In the early
days of the Beef Wellington industry, many people made exactly what you see
here (though these days, we know better). Here are a few quick tips for making
perfect beef wallington
1.
Don’t forget to bake it
Before
you begin cooking, make sure that you have properly prepped all your
ingredients. This includes chilling the beef and ice, baking the pastry dough
and loading it with your filling.
2.
Use cold or room temperature water
In
order to reduce cooking time, it is best to use cold or room temperature water.
This will help to keep the rolls moist and prevent them from drying out too
quickly.
3.
Preheat oven at 300°F or lower
Icing
doesn’t typically require an oven (since it typically doesn’t rise very much),
but if you do want to cook your meat in an oven make sure that it has been
preheated at least 300°F (or lower) before baking. This will ensure that your
rolls will not burn in the oven. Read up on how to do this more thoroughly
here: How To Keep Food Safe In The Oven .
4.
Preparing Your Ingredients as Well as Rolls
If
you are using regular flour for your rolls, cut it into smaller pieces than if
you are using self-raising flour (bread flour). Also, don't mix this up with
regular flour - you need self-raising flour for your rolls! If you don't have
self-raising flour handy, try using another basic all purpose flour instead;
but remember that there is a difference between regular all purpose flour and
self-rising all purpose flour! Again, read up on how to use this better here:
How To Use Self Rise Flour .
5.
Make sure your dough is cold when rolling out pastry dough
A
lot of people get confused about whether they should refrigerate their pastry
dough before they start rolling out – they think that refrigerating makes the
dough softer and easier to work with! The truth is that refrigerating makes
bits of extra fat fall right off - hence why our recipe calls for butter in
place of margarine or shortening - but it also means that we should be careful
not to overwork our pastry dough when rolling out their sheet into a perfect
circle – otherwise it will tear from under us! Once we have rolled out our
pastry rounds then we can simply
6. Measuring Your Strategy's Success
Once
you have a strategy, what should it measure? In the simplest case (and one of
the most common types of strategies), you need to measure your results against
the competition; so you can say: “we’ve beaten our competition in this area.”
It
is also possible to measure things which aren’t directly competitive: how many
users are on your service, how many customers are using your service, how much
revenue you generate each year.
The
last two metrics are particularly important: they provide a steady check on
whether or not you are innovating and moving in the right direction.
But
let's face it: no one can be 100% sure of their own success — so, we need a way
of deciding whether or not we're making progress.
What
is such a metric? The most common and simplest method is to divide revenues by
number of users (or number of users by number of transactions). This is usually
called unit economics. It is also important for measuring growth: if one group
grows faster than another group, then that means that there was something wrong
with their strategy.
Another
metric you might use is gross margins (gross profit divided by revenues). But
again, this is only useful when we have an empirically justified model for what
drives success; if not, it will operate as a default measure and give us very
little data about performance.
So
here's my proposal for those who want to use unit economics: what should be
your unit economics? You shouldn't worry about being right all the time;
instead, focus on being right most of the time (the bigger your margins are
relative to other businesses in your sector, the better). If your model doesn't
work out well in practice — or during experimental periods — then cut costs
and/or improve how you do things (and perhaps change some things that aren't
working out well). If profits don't follow suit over time — then try switching
to another model or doing things differently... but don't worry too much about
why this might happen! Just do what works best for now!
7. Conclusion
This
is the last post in our series on “product market fit”. It is not intended to
be comprehensive, but rather a list of the primary things you need to do to get
your product to market. You may have already done all of these things before,
or you may need to do them again. There are many ways to achieve each of these
goals. They are not necessarily mutually exclusive; however, in many cases they
will help you achieve each goal.
This
is a very long post; please read it slowly and carefully if you go through it
because I have laid out some very broad concepts in this post that are not
specific to any one kind of product or application.
If
you want more detailed information about getting your product into the hands of
users, I recommend that you read the next part of this series which covers
“value propositions” and “learnings from the lean startup experience” (part 1
here).
However,
for those who want an overview of how product marketing can contribute towards
achieving value proposition success, feel free take a look at part 2:
“learnings from the lean startup experience” (part 2 here)
By Chef Muneeb Abbasi
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