Fast slow beef short ribs quinoa rice
Dedicated to friends at work who let me get out of work in time to buy beef on Thursday evening.
The last couple of years, I’ve eaten beef short ribs on Good Friday. I think it started because people were telling me I shouldn’t eat beef on Good Friday. I guess I’m a rebel.
Two years ago when I cooked beef short ribs I broke a tooth. That wasn’t such a good experience. Last year, there was no broken tooth which was good. This time, rather than cook the beef in the oven, I cooked the beef in the slow cooker and used the pressure cooker for the rice, hence the title, “fast and slow beef ribs and rice”. I used my fast and slow cooker or what many people call an Instapot or Instant Pot.
The Instapot or Instant Pot phenomenon seems to have taken off, especially in North America. It doesn’t appear to be as popular here in Australia. Along with my Tupperware Microwave Radiation pressure cooker, my electric fast slow cooker made by Breville is among my favourite cooking appliances.
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I bought all the ingredients from Coles. Yummy Lummy is not sponsored by anyone.Recipe
- Beef short ribs
- Red wine
- Beef stock
- Black pepper corns
- Smokey barbecue sauce
- Rice
- Quinoa
- Fennel
- Red onion
- Spring onion
- Bird’s eye chillies
- Parsley
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In the slow cooker vessel carefully place the beef short ribs
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Be careful because the meat on the bones will be so tasty and so tender later in the day
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Treat your meat gently and it will reward you with great taste, flavour, and mouthfeel
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Pour in some beef stock
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Pour in a cup of red wine
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Add a handful of black pepper corns
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Add a couple of good slugs of smokey barbecue sauce
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Put the cooking vessel into the fast slow cooker and secure the lid
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Set the timer for the slow cooker function to eight hours and then spend every moment thinking about your meat along with other tasks you need to undertake during your busy day
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When the timer goes off, remove the lid from the fast slow cooker and gently left out your meat being careful not to allow the bones to fall away and splash back into the cooking liquid
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Set your meat aside on a plate and begin to remove the rib bones
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Gently tease your meat apart and put it onto a baking tray
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Add some more smokey barbecue sauce and mix with the meat
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Heat in a warm oven for about 20 minutes
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Wash some rice and quinoa
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Add it to the cooking liquid from the beef short ribs
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Secure the lid of the fast slow cooker
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Set the function to pressure cooker and the timer to 20 minutes
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When the timer goes off, remove the lid
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Spoon out the quinoa rice and place into a bowl
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Arrange the quinoa rice which has absorbed all the fatty peppery flavours from the slow-cooked beef short ribs into a bowl.
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Using tongs, add some of the smokey barbecue pepper beef short ribs
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Add the sliced and chopped fennel, spring onion, red onion, bird’s eye chillies, and parsley on top
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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 the energy for dishes. I deliberately default to 500 Calories or 500,000 calories because I do not make these calculations.
Photographs
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Beef short ribs 
Beef short ribs and slow-cooker 
Beef short ribs in slow-cooker vessel 
Cooked beef short ribs 
Cooked Beef short ribs sans rib bones 
Cooked beef short ribs shredded 
Fast slow beef short ribs with quinoa rice 🐄🥩🍚🌶 The recipe will be on the blog #yummylummy #foodphotography #foldio #hypop #slowcooker #beefshortribs #pressurecooker #rice #quinoa Barbecue sauce, Beef, Bird’s eye chillies, Black pepper corns, Fennel, Lime, Lime juice, Parsley, Quinoa, Red onion, Rice, Short ribs, Spring onion 
Fast slow beef short ribs with quinoa rice 🐄🥩🍚🌶 The recipe will be on the blog #yummylummy #foodphotography #foldio #hypop #slowcooker #beefshortribs #pressurecooker #rice #quinoa Barbecue sauce, Beef, Bird’s eye chillies, Black pepper corns, Fennel, Lime, Lime juice, Parsley, Quinoa, Red onion, Rice, Short ribs, Spring onion 
Fast slow beef short ribs with quinoa rice 🐄🥩🍚🌶 The recipe will be on the blog #yummylummy #foodphotography #foldio #hypop #slowcooker #beefshortribs #pressurecooker #rice #quinoa Barbecue sauce, Beef, Bird’s eye chillies, Black pepper corns, Fennel, Lime, Lime juice, Parsley, Quinoa, Red onion, Rice, Short ribs, Spring onion
Questions and answers
Why did you dedicate this post to your workmates?
Well, work was busy and there was some urgent stuff that had to be attended to. One particular colleague was very good at getting said urgent stuff sorted which meant I could get to the shops in time to buy my meat.
Is slowly cooking the beef short ribs better than slowly cooking in a casserole in the oven?
The flavour is different. It’s not as caramelised. That said, the flesh of my meat was more tender and the pressure cooker cooked quinoa rice went really well with the beefy meat.
Is the Instapot or Instant Pot worth having?
In my opinion yes. Combining fast slow cooking really made this a convenient albeit long cook for this meal.
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Final thoughts
- How often do you rely on workmates to get you out on time?
- What did you eat on Good Friday?
- Do you have an Instapot or Instant Pot? Do you like using it?
That looks extremely delicious, thank you for sharing the recipe! I will definitely try cooking it myself next weekend, we have a family gathering and I feel this will be the perfect meal.
Thank you very much Jane. I really appreciate your visiting here. I hope your meal turns out well 😃😃😃
I grew up in a fundamental Christian religious home, so meat on GF a huge no-no in my childhood. In my early 20s but still involved I cooked lasagne for GF lunch, telling my mum that I reckon Jesus didn’t worry too much about what we ate. She was consumed with (yummy lasange) and guilt. It gives me a perverse pleasure these days, now I’ve well and truly lost my religion, to eat meat on GF. 😜😂
As much as I don’t wish to offend anyone I share your perverse pleasure in eating a bit of red meat on GF 😉
Oh, should I too be wary of offending anyone? 😜
You’ll never offend me but there are so many people these days who seem to make being offended a “career choice”.
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We ate pizza on Good Friday but I did eat seafood yesterday on Easter Sunday. I don’t know if that counts hehe.
Mmm…pizza. I made nachos for Easter Sunday and a low carb burrito which was basically left over beef short rib meat wrapped in iceberg lettuce leaves https://youtu.be/Y52ma7C0XF4
That looks delicious, Gary. We’re only half-way through Good Friday here so have yet to eat my evening meal. But what I’ve planned is pork chops. I’m going to brine them for 30 minutes, then flash fry and finish off in a low oven and serve with home-made ratatouille.
Mmm….Emma, that sounds delicious. I’m a big fan of pork chops. I have enough meat from my beef short ribs to last for at least another couple of meals. I’m thinking a sandwich for sure for at least one meal.
I’ve never made ratatouille, I figure if I can’t spell it without having to look it up I shouldn’t cook it 😂🤣
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Looks a-mazing! 👁👁🍃
Thank you very much Gail 😃
It is the best when workmates can take one for you and you can go home early. You be there for them, they be there for you 😃
Yep, exactly Mabel. As a result I had a nice beef short ribs meal 😃
Fantastic article. Your meal sounds delicious. I was brought up Baptist so we didn’t have food restrictions on Good Friday. As far as I can remember we ate meat on Fridays.
I think my housemate has a Crock Pot which is a Slow Cooker. He mostly uses it for dinner parties in the summer.
Question: What is faffing?
Thanks. Likewise, I wasn’t raised Roman Catholic. It was a mystery to me.