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CLASSIC BEEF ACCOMPANIMENTS

Beef and horseradish, steak and ale pie, Accompaniments for Beef
boiled beef and onions – such classic
What they do – enhance the meat’s
dishes have been around for centuries.
natural flavours, enriching each other
Marinate and the eating experience.
What it does – adds flavour. What to do – combine the ingredients
and serve with your beef dish.
What to do – mix marinade ingredients.
Place meat and marinade in a plastic bag. What to use – for creamy blue cheese,
Refrigerate. combine natural yoghurt with a good blue
vein cheese and chopped spring onions.
What to use – horseradish, mustard,
For a hot chilli accompaniment, mix
red wine, peppercorns, garlic, ginger,
natural yoghurt, tomatoes and chillis. For
wholegrain mustard, brown sugar, allspice,
the best of British, make some Yorkshire
cumin, paprika, wasabi paste, chilli, garlic
puddings and gravy and serve with
salt. (These are just few examples, try
horseradish and peppery watercress sauce.
experimenting with your own marinades).
Get boozy! Beef laps up stouts so add
Glaze your favourite ales in pies and casseroles.
What it does – adds flavour, enhances Or pan fry and deglaze with Madeira.
visual appeal of cooked meat. You can even poach fillet steaks in good
red wine and serve with pomme purée
What to do – brush the glaze over the and green beans!
meat a few minutes before end of cooking.
What to use – sugar is essential for
glazing. So try blackbean glaze, barbecue
sauce or a sweetened wasabi and
horseradish.

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 Pairing Ingredients for Beef
Anchovy Cucumber Orange
Anise Dill Oyster
Artichoke ( Jerusalem) Egg Parsley
Bacon French beans Parsnip
Beetroot Garlic Pea
Bell pepper Ginger Peanut
Black pudding Grape Pear
Blackberry Haggis Pepper
Blue cheese Hard Cheese Potato
Broccoli Horseradish Saffron
Cabbage Juniper Shellfish
Caper Kidney Swede
Carrot Lemon Thyme
Celery Lime Tea
Chilli Liver Tomato
Cinnamon Mint Truffle
Clove Mushroom Turnip
Cocoa Mustard Walnut
Coconut Oily fish Watercress
Coffee Olives
Courgette Onion

Some interesting flavour combinations to try with Scotch Beef PGI

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more information about meat
Free recipes:
www.scotchbeefkitchen.com
Consumer Clubs – To find member restaurants of the Scotch Beef Club:
www.scotchbeefclub.org
To find members of the Scotch Butchers Club:
www.scotchbutchersclub.org
Food hygiene and general labelling legislation – Food Standards Agency:
www.food.gov.uk
Labelling legislation – search for meat labelling at:
www.scotland.gov.uk
Healthy eating:
www.eatwell.gov.uk
Industry information:
www.qmscotland.co.uk
Scotland Food & Drink:
www.scotlandfoodanddrink.org
Waste of food:
www.lovefoodhatewaste.com
Consumer protection and information – Consumer Focus:
www.consumerfocus-scotland.org.uk
Scottish SPCA – The Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals:
www.scottishspca.org
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Nutrition

Source: QMS/Dietplan6, nutritional values are per serving.

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Index
Accompaniments 136 Flank 25
Aging 18 Food hygiene 18, 38
Animal welfare 10 Fore rib 25, 41
Bavette steak with potato wedges 112 Fore shin 25
BBQ 38 Forequarter 24
Béarnaise sauce 122 Freezing 43
Beef & ale pot roast 47 Frying 30
Beef and barley soup 65 Glaze 136
Beef and black bean chilli 62 Grilling 30, 38
Beef gravy 56 Hanging 18
Beef & toasted Mexican cornbread Hind shin 27
sandwich 109 Hindquarter 26
Beef carbonnade 74 Horseradish sauce 128
Beef carpaccio tartlets 95 Information about meat 138
Beef casserole 85 Kitchen equipment 134
Beef goulash 77 Lasagne al forno 72
Beef gravy 56 Leftovers 42
Beef noodle soup 106 Leg of mutton 25
Beef ratatouille 79 Lemon & parsley butter 130
Blade 25 Loin 27
Brisket 25, 41 Marbling 20
Carving 40 Marinades 136
Casseroles 37 Marinate 136
Chilli basil kebabs 93 Meat colour 20
Chimichurri sauce 124 Meat loaf 104
Chinese beef dumplings 99 Meatballs 80
Chuck 25 Mediterranean roasted field mushrooms 60
Clod 25 Mini toad in the holes 66
Cooking methods and times 25, 27, 30-41 Neck 25
Crispy beef in beer batter 96 Nutrition 16
Cuts 24-27 Oxtail 27
Farming 12 Pairing ingredients for beef 137
Fillet 27, 41 Perfect pasties 102

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Perfect steaks & roasts app 139 Thick rib 25
Popeseye 27, 41 Topside 27, 41
Pot roasting 36 Touch test 32
Pulled spiced beef brisket 90 Warm rump steak salad 116
Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) 5, 8 Yorkshire puddings 55, 66
Rather special burger 82
Ribeye 25, 41
Ribeye steak with green
peppercorn sauce 120
Roast rib of Scotch Beef PGI 52
Roast silverside of Scotch Beef PGI 51
Roast topside of Scotch Beef PGI 48
Roasting 34-35
Rocket salad with minute steak 119
Rump 27, 41
Sauce diane 126
Scotch Beef PGI 8
Scotch Beef PGI steaks 30-33, 38
Scottish Beef 9
Scottish SPCA 10, 12
Shallot & red wine sauce 132
Silverside 27, 41
Sirloin 27, 30, 41
Sirloin steak with tomato
& red onion salad 115
Slow cooker 36
Social sustainability 14
Steak and mushroom pie 88
Stock 42
Store-cupboard staples 134
Storing meat 18
Stovies 69
Tenderness of meat 18

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