Slow cooker beef cheeks with roughly mashed sesame oil flavoured sweet potato
This week I enjoyed a new sweet potato treat and I now have a hankering for some sweet potato.
Jervis Bay Territory and Sweet potato scallops
I had to visit the Jervis Bay Territory (JBT) for work and I asked about a good place to buy lunch. I was told to visit Huskisson and check out the main drag.
I came across “World Famous Fish and Chips, Huskisson” and was recommended their sweet potato scallops. I wrote a short review here.
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I bought all the ingredients from Coles.
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Recipe
- 2 Beef cheeks
- 2 tablespoons Chinese barbecue sauce
- 2 cups Water
- Red radish
- Red capsicum
- Green capsicum
- Carrot
- Celery
- Red onion
- Lime juice
- Olive oil
- Iodised salt
- Black pepper
- Crushed peanuts
- Sunflower seeds
- Coriander
- Sweet potato
- Sesame oil
- Butter
- Sour cream
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Unwrap the beef cheeks from the vacuum pack and place the cheeks into the slow cooker.
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Add in a couple of tablespoons of Chinese barbecue sauce.
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Cover the beef cheeks with some tap water.
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Turn the slow cooker on and cook for eight (8) hours.
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At the end of the cooking time remove one cheek and put into a bowl and cover to keep the cooked muscle warm while preparing the vegetables.
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Put the other cheek into an airtight Tupperware container and refrigerate it to enjoy as a leftover meal at another time.
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Pour the juices into a small saucepan and heat to the boil. Gently simmer to thicken to a sauce.
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Finely dice or slice all the vegetables and put into a mixing bowl. Squeeze over the juice of a lime and add a slug of olive oil. Mix and season to taste.
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Mix in some crushed peanuts and sunflower seeds, and chopped parsley.
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Roughly dice a sweet potato and put the pieces into a mixing bowl.
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Add a splash of olive oil and sesame oil along with some sesame and poppy seeds.
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Mix the sweet potato pieces and the oils well.
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Place into a hot oven (250 °C/480 °F) for 45 minutes or until the sweet potato is soft enough to penetrate with a skewer.
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Roughly mash with a fork, add a couple of teaspoons of butter, and add a couple of tablespoons of sour cream and mix through.
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Cover the surface of a plate with the mashed sweet potato.
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Place one beef cheek on the sweet potato and spoon over the flesh of the cheek some sauce.
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Add the raw vegetables in a way that will make the plate look pretty. If pretty isn't possible, just put it anywhere you feel.
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Shoot a photograph and a short video because Google now wants video on recipe cards.
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Eat the meal.
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Wash the dishes (hint, wash as you cook, it makes life easier).
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Write the recipe.
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Write the blog post.
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Hit publish and hope this blog post gets shared on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.
Recipe Video
Disclaimer
I have no culinary training nor qualifications. This post is not intended to convey any health or medical advice. If you have any health concerns about anything you read, please contact your registered medical practitioner. The quantities are indicative. Feel free to vary the quantities to suit your taste. I deliberately do not calculate energy for dishes. I deliberately default to 500 Calories or 500,000 calories because I do not make these calculations.
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I cooked the beef in a slow cooker and the sweet potato was roasted and then mashed.
Questions and answers
Can you cook beef cheeks more quickly?
Sure, in a pressure cooker. I don’t think I’d try pan frying beef cheeks. I reckon the meat would be really tough.
Why the Chinese barbecue sauce?
I had an open jar in the refrigerator and I needed to use it. Regular readers know I’ll try almost any combination to see what’s like.
How was the meal?
It was delicious. Slow cooker beef cheeks have an amazing texture. The mouthfeel of the mashed sesame oil sweet potato was also fantastic.
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Final thoughts
What’s your favourite lunch when you travel for work?
Do you like sweet potato? How do you like it cooked or prepared?
Have you ever visited the Jervis Bay Territory?
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Oh wow, that sounds delicious! I have to admit I had never cooked beef cheeks up until a few weeks ago, did them in the pressure cooker and they were great. Quite a strong meat flavour, so I felt it needed lots of veggies to balance that out (not a bad thing!)
I’m yet to cook them in a pressure cooker. That might be my next project Elissa 😃😃😃
Immense! Do you live near a good butcher? I’ve never tried beef cheeks–and never seen them for sale either. My favourite lunch for work usually involves a salad with beans or quinoa, chicken or fish. I love sweet potato and usually have it baked and served with lots of butter, salt and cheese. I’ve never been to Jervis Bay Territory.
There are butchers close to where I live but I normally buy meat from the local supermarket.
I really should improve my lunch repertoire. I do like quinoa.
I love using beef cheeks too, I usually pressure cook them before adding them to sauces. Your meal looks so wholesome and so fresh!
Thanks very much Rose. The beek cheef meat was amazing. Great taste and great texture.
Good to know I can pick up beef cheeks easily while doing a grocery shop. Thanks for sharing Gaz!
My pleasure Eileen. I’ve noticed beef cheeks are available most days I shop, but sometimes, I can’t find them at all. There are also heaps of ways to slowly cook them. I was lazy with the Chinese barbecue sauce, but normally, I’d use some red wine, beef stock, celery, carrot, and onion.
Sweet potato scallops. How delicious. Never had them but love the original ones. I know the Huskie F&C shop. I love Huskie. The little movie theatre there is gorgeous.
Thanks, Sue. I’m tempted to return on a weekend and take a look around. I hear the parking though on weekends is atrocious.
Huskisson looks like a nice place to visit. The water looked so blue, it was gorgeous.
Yes parking is dreadful around the Main Street. If you do go park way away from that one.
It should be a pleasant walk if I can park a few streets away from the beachfront.
very distinct for me indeed !
Thank you
Re your question, I love eating whatever is local to the place I am visiting because I don’t know when I’ll get there again!
I agree, Lorraine. Eating local and what the locals eat is a great guide.
I like sweet potato a lot. In fact, I just had some along with some bacon for dinner. Did you buy purple or gold sweet potatoes? I pefer gold and like it boiled and then mashed.
Those fish and chips looks amazing, and the batter looks so delightful.
The batter was really good.
I only buy gold sweet potatoes 😃
Bacon, I should have added bacon 💡
Definitely gold sweet potatoes all the way. One time I bought purple sweet potatoes and for some reason, didn’t taste as good.
Yes, bacon is always good. No cheese today too, Gaz 😃
Oh there was cheese at lunch with leftover KFC 😃
Should make it cheese with every meal. At least for a week 😃
I usually have some grated cheddar with my eggs every morning.