• Slow cooking the beef is the key to making this balsamic-honey shredded beef buns recipe as it allows the meat to simply melt in your mouth.

    Balsamic-honey shredded beef buns

    Serves: 4
    Total Time: 3 hours 20 mins

    Ingredients

    • 250 grams stewing beef
    • 1 Tbsp. flour
    • 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
    • ¼ cup finely sliced ginger
    • 3 garlic cloves, minced
    • 2 Tbsp. chopped chillies
    • Cabbage and radish slaw
    • 200 grams cabbage, thinly sliced
    • 4 radishes, trimmed and thinly sliced
    • 2 Tbsp. chopped chives
    • ¾ cup mayonnaise
    • 2 Tbsp. white wine vinegar
    • Balsamic honey sauce
    • 1 Tbsp. olive oil
    • 1 onion, finely chopped
    • 2 garlic cloves, minced
    • 1 cup balsamic vinegar
    • ½ cup tomato sauce
    • 1 Tbsp. worcestershire sauce
    • ¼ cup brown sugar
    • 1 cup beef stock
    • 2 Tbsp. honey
    • 1 Tbsp. dijon mustard
    • 4 brioche buns 

    Instructions

    1

    DUST beef in flour. Heat oil in a pot over high heat and sear the beef on all sides. Remove from the pot. 

    2

    FRY the ginger, garlic and chillies for 5 minutes. Add the beef, stock, sugar, soy sauce, vinegar and salt. Simmer for 2 hours, then remove from the heat and set aside to cool slightly. Once cooled, shred the beef.

    Cabbage and radish slaw

    3

    COMBINE all the ingredients together in a bowl, then season to taste.

    Balsamic honey sauce

    4

    HEAT oil in a pan over a medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic and cook for 5 minutes until softened. Add vinegar, sauces, sugar, stock, honey and mustard. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until reduced and syrupy.

    5

    ADD shredded beef, season and mix to coat well. Fill buns with shredded beef and top with coleslaw.

    Notes

    TIP: This meal works great with leftover roast beef or gammon from the night before. 

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