At Ketofest this year I showed 6 different ways of cooking pulled beef.
You might have already seen the recipe I made with pulled beef cooked in zero carb beer. It’s the same cut of meat. In Australia it’s called a Bolar roast, in the USA you can use chuck roasts.
Both are cut from the fatty shoulder of a cow. There is a seam of gristle through it and the meat is tough unless you cook it for a long time. But look at the price. It’s around AUD $11 per kilo (US$3.8/lb) – we usually have 100g per plate so for us that’s AUD $1.10 per plate plus low carb vegetables – that’s a very cheap meal.
Each meal here made 8 tastes, each of which is roughly 50g (1.7 oz) of meat. A regular serving is usually 100g (3.6 oz).
| Cook Time | 12 hours |
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Ingredients
Basic pulled beef
- 4 Kg Bolar blade roast or chuck roast
- 4 bay leaves
- 2 Cups liquid stock
- 1 Sprig of thyme
Hungarian pulled beef
- 400 g Pulled beef
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 roasted pepper in oil
- 2 tbs Sour Cream
Thai pulled beef
- 400 g Pulled beef
- 1 Kaffir lime leaf
- 2 inches lemon-grass stalk
- 1/2 cup Coconut cream Coconut cream
- 1 inch grated ginger root
- 1 inch grated turmeric root or 1 tsp Turmeric
- 1 green chili-pepper
- 1 clove
BBQ pulled beef
- 400 g Pulled beef
- 1 tbs apple cider vinegar
- 1 tbs Worcestershire sauce
- 1 packet Tomato paste
- 2 tsp sugar-free sweetener
Curry pulled beef
- 400 g Pulled beef
- 1 tbs cumin seed
- 1 tbs Coriander seed
- 1/2 tbs Fenugreek seed
- 1/2 tbs cardamom seed
- 2 tbs beef ribeye steak
- 1 tbs ghee or butter
Philly Cheese pulled beef
- 400 g Pulled beef
- 2 cups grated cheese
- 1 tbs Sodium citrate
- 1/2 cup boiling water
- 1/2 Onion
- 1 Worcestershire sauce
- 1 butter
Taco seasoned pulled beef
- 400 g Pulled beef
- 1 tbs cumin seed
- 1 tbs Coriander seed
- 1 tbs Mexican chili-powder
- 2 tbs Sour Cream
- 1 tbs ghee or butter
- 1/2 cup water
Instructions
Basic pulled beef
- Add the stock to a slow cooker/crock-pot. It can be in ice cubes if you store your stock like that. It could be just water or sometimes I even use Whey left over from making cheese. The point is to have a liquid to prevent the meat from catching and burning before it has had a chance to render out some of the fat.
- Add Bolar Blade. If you want to cook a spiced pulled beef you can smear a spice mix over the top surface of the roast, but for this recipe we'll add the flavorings after the meat has been cooked and pulled.
- Add Bay leaves and Thyme. These herbs specifically compliment beef and make the resulting flavor more beef-like.
- Cook with the lid on for 6-10 hours, or until the meat to start to fall apart. There will be a lot of cooking liquid that's normal.
- With a pair of forks tease the meat apart so the fibers draw up the cooking liquid.
- I portion the beef into 200 mg bags for 2 servings per bag, and then freeze.
- NOTE: This is unseasoned, so we will have to add salt to each meal to taste.
Hungarian pulled beef
- Put pulled beef in the microwave for 1 minute to thaw. Make sure you have cracked the seal of the ziploc bag.
- Take a Magic bullet container, add the garlic, paprika and roasted pepper and puree the mixture.
- Add the mix to a hot pan and fry for about 1 min to mellow the harshness of the garlic, then add the meat and mix well.
- Cook until the meat is warmed through.
- Take the pan off the heat, and swirl through the sour cream.
Thai pulled beef
- Put pulled beef in the microwave for 1 minute to thaw. Make sure you have cracked the seal of the ziploc bag.
- Take a Magic bullet container, and add the Chili-pepper, Kaffir lime leaf, Lemon-grass, ginger, turmeric, clove and Coconut cream then puree.
- Add the mix to a hot pan and fry for about 1 min to blend the flavors, then add the meat and mix well.
- Cook for about 2 minutes to develop the flavors.
BBQ pulled beef
- Put pulled beef in the microwave for 1 minute to thaw. Make sure you have cracked the seal of the ziploc bag.
- Take a Magic bullet container, and add the ACV + Tomato paste + Worcestershire sauce + Sweetener and puree.
- Add the pureed BBQ sauce to a hot pan with the meat and mix well.
- Cook for about 2 minutes to develop the flavors.
Curry pulled beef
- Put pulled beef in the microwave for 1 minute to thaw. Make sure you have cracked the seal of the ziploc bag.
- Roast the seeds in a dry fry pan until they have started to "crack" - this will mellow and develop their flavor
- Add the roasted seeds to the magic bullet blender and puree
- Add the pureed curry powder to a hot pan with the ghee and meat and mix well.
- Cook for about 2 minutes to blend the meat and curry flavors.
- Take the pan off the heat, and swirl through the sour cream.
Philly Cheese pulled beef
- Put pulled beef in the microwave for 1 minute to thaw. Make sure you have cracked the seal of the ziploc bag.
- Slice the onion into rings, and fry in a little butter until translucent
- add the meat and Worcestershire and cook until the meat is warmed.
- Take a Magic bullet container, and fill it 3/4 with grated cheese.
- Add boiling water and Sodium Citrate and blend.
- If the mix is not liquid enough, add a tsp of water and re-blend.
- If the mix is too liquid, add a little grated cheese and re-blend.
- Serve in a lettuce leaf cup with cheese sauce.
Taco seasoned pulled beef
- Put pulled beef in the microwave for 1 minute to thaw. Make sure you have cracked the seal of the ziploc bag.
- Roast the seeds in a dry fry pan until they have started to "crack" - this will mellow and develop their flavor
- Add the roasted seeds to the magic bullet blender with the chili-powder and blend to make taco spice mix
- Add the meat to a hot pan with the water and the taco spice mix and mix well.
- Cook for about 2 minutes to blend the meat and spice flavors.
- Take the pan off the heat, and swirl through the sour cream.
- Serve in a lettuce cup with grated cheese and guacamole
