Slow-Baked Hanger Steak in Demi-Glace

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Hanger steak is sometimes called "butchers' steak," due to the fact that butchers utilized to support this oddly shaped chopped for themselves. What a translation it undergoes erstwhile it's cooked this way.

As the meat, vegetables and spices cook slowly, their flavors gradually mingle and bloom to make the silken texture that is the hallmark of a classic, wine-fortified concentrated nutrient broth.

Serve implicit rice. You whitethorn privation to apical it with pea shoots oregon different greens, conscionable to adhd a deed of colour to the rich, acheronian meat.

Ingredients

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Servings: 6-8

4 pounds hanger steak (see headnote)
1/4 cupful flour
Sea salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1 spoon dried thyme
Pinch crushed cloves
2 tablespoons rootlike oil
2 mean yellowish onions, finely chopped
4 mean carrots, good scrubbed, past finely chopped
2 ribs celery, peeled, past finely chopped
1 cupful adust reddish wine
2 cups water
1 tablespoonful herb paste
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
Pea shoots, for garnish (optional)

Adapted from "Cooking Slow: Recipes for Slowing Down and Cooking More," by Andrew Schloss (Chronicle, 2013).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published October 8, 2013

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Updated March 14, 2026

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