Rib Eye Red Wine Stew
created by Iron Chef French II, Hiroyuki Sakai
Battle Mishima Beef
reverse-engineered by David J Rust

Ingredients:

Steps

1. Season the rib eye cubes with the salt and pepper. NOTE: You may want to lightly toss the beef cubes (after they have been seasoned) in some flour to promote browning. In a hot, cast iron skillet, heat the olive oil and brown the meat.

2. Once browned, deglaze the pan with the red wine and simmer for about 10 minutes.

3. Remove the meat and wine from the skillet and place in a pressure cooker. Add the veal stock, onion and garlic. Put the lid on the pressure cooker and cook at high pressure for about 30 minutes.

NOTE: Be very careful when using a pressure cooker and -after the 30 minutes are up- allow the steam to fully escape before attempting to open the lid.

4. Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil to a skillet over medium-high heat and cook the snow pea pods until slightly darker green in color, but still crunchy. Add the cabbage leaves to heat them through and then, remove from the heat.

5. After the pressure cooker has been removed from the heat (after 30 minutes) and allowed to stop sputtering from it's valve, carefully remove the lid.

6. On individual plates, place a single cabbage leaf and spoon one-sixth of the pressure cooker contents onto each. Garnish each serving with 2 snow pea pods. Serve.

Serves 6 as a small entree.

Serving Notes:

This was served by the Iron Chef as an entree along with the Garlic Rice side-dish.

Iron Chef Notes:

This is one of those unusual Iron Chef dishes that really does not seem like what it's name suggests. Rather than a stew that you eat with a spoon from a bowl, it's more like a stewed meat item that's served on a plate with a bit of the sauce clinging to it as a glaze. It's possible that this was done in the serving process and excess liquid was discarded from the pressure cooker. If you *do* have a large amount of liquid, you may want to place the stew in a bowl rather than a plate and use the cabbage leaf as a partial "bowl" as well.