Beef spare ribs, aged malt vinegar

  • 6
  • 60 minutes plus 2 hours 30 minutes for brining
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Pip Lacey here presents a very simple but unusual way to cook brined beef short ribs: deep-fry them. The brined beef is floured before it’s added to the oil so that it has a slightly crunchy exterior, and then served with a drizzle of aged malt vinegar.

First published in 2023

Ingredients

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Beef brine

For frying

  • 1 rack of beef short ribs, about 6 ribs
  • oil, for deep-frying
  • gluten-free self-raising flour
  • aged malt vinegar, for serving

Method

1

Toast the coriander seeds, star anise and cloves in a pan. Add the toasted spices and all the other aromatics to a large pan. Add the salt and water, and then bring to the boil to dissolve salt. Take off the heat and chill

2

Once the brine is cool, add the ribs and brine them in the fridge for 2.5 hours

3

Once brined, cut the rack of ribs into single ribs and pat dry with paper towels

4

Fill a large, deep pan with a few centimetres of oil, and heat up to 180°C

  • oil, for deep frying
5

Toss the ribs in gluten free self raising flour and deep-fry for 5 minutes at 180°C. Serve drizzled with aged malt vinegar

  • gluten-free self-raising flour
  • aged malt vinegar, for serving
First published in 2023

Pip Lacey may have first donned her whites at twenty-seven, but she has since worked in the kitchens of Gordon Ramsay and Clare Smyth, been mentored by Angela Hartnett and headed up Michelin-starred Italian restaurant Murano. Today, she is at the helm of her woodfire-focused restaurant Hicce at Kings Cross and Islington pub Hicce Hart.

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