Description
Ina Garten’s beef stock recipe delivers rich, complex flavor profiles from carefully selected ingredients. Home cooks can elevate soups, sauces, and braised dishes with this professional-grade homemade stock that brings depth to culinary creations.
Ingredients
Scale
- 7 lbs (3.18 kg) beef bones, sawed into 2-inch pieces
- 2 cups (300 g) chopped onions
- 1 cup (150 g) chopped celery
- 1 cup (150 g) chopped carrots
- 5 garlic cloves, peeled
- 2 cups (470 ml) claret wine
- 1 (6 oz) (170 g) can tomato paste
- 1 ½ gallons (5.68 l) water
- 20 peppercorns
- 5 bay leaves
- 1 tsp dried leaf thyme
Instructions
- Roasting Preparation: Preheat oven to 400°F (204°C) and arrange bones evenly in a roasting pan to ensure uniform golden-brown caramelization.
- Bone Transformation: Roast bones for 1 hour until deep golden color emerges, developing intense, rich aromatic profiles, then coat thoroughly with tomato paste.
- Vegetable Integration: Distribute chopped vegetables across bone-tomato paste mixture, creating a flavor-enhancing foundation, and return pan to oven for additional 30-minute roasting to caramelize vegetables.
- Flavor Extraction: Transfer roasting pan to stovetop, deglaze with wine using wooden spoon to capture concentrated browned essence, then transfer entire mixture into large stock pot.
- Herbal Infusion: Incorporate fresh herbs, minced garlic, whole peppercorns, and salt to elevate taste complexity, bringing liquid to robust boil before reducing to gentle simmer.
- Slow Simmering: Maintain consistent low heat for 4 hours, periodically skimming accumulated surface fat to refine stock’s clarity and depth.
- Final Refinement: Strain liquid through fine-mesh sieve, discarding spent ingredients and preserving rich, concentrated stock with complex layered flavors.
Notes
- Bone Selection Matters: Choose meaty, collagen-rich beef bones like knuckles, oxtails, and marrow bones for maximum flavor and nutrition.
- Roasting Technique Crucial: Deep golden-brown roasting develops concentrated, complex umami flavors that transform basic stock into gourmet liquid.
- Temperature Control Key: Maintain a gentle, low simmer to extract maximum nutrients without clouding or breaking down the stock’s clarity.
- Fat Removal Essential: Regularly skimming fat ensures a clean, pure stock with rich, intense beef flavor without excessive greasiness.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 hours 30 minutes
- Category: Dinner, Snacks
- Method: Roasting
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 20
- Calories: 60
- Sugar: 2 g
- Sodium: 120 mg
- Fat: 2 g
- Saturated Fat: 1 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 1 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 6 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 10 mg