Iberian cheeks, video recipe with Claudia and Chef Rafa

You already know how we like to use the cocotte. From preparing soups and creams to making rice, making a good and hearty fabada or stew, preparing casseroles, cooking a thousand and one fish recipes or, of course, preparing meats a tutti pleni with very little effort. That's what we're going for today!

Today Rafa Antonín brings us the recipe to prepare some magnificent Iberian cheeks , a dish that will give you very little work in the kitchen and you will get the most tender and juicy meat, with a delicious flavor.

To prepare the recipe, use the Le Creuset cocotte , firstly on the stove and then put it in the oven, where the meat will cook by itself. We leave you with the video recipe, and below the written step-by-step instructions. You will see that with just a few simple steps you have it ready and it turns out great!

Ingredients (for 3-4 people)

• 3 or 4 Iberian cheeks without bone or fat
  
• 1 onion
• 3 carrots
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 150 ml dry white wine
• 250 ml chicken broth
• Oil
• Salt and pepper

Preparation

1. Season the cheeks to taste. It is important that the seasoning is uniform.
2. We pour a little oil into the cocotte and place the cheeks in it. We keep them and turn them until they are golden.
3. Meanwhile, prepare the onion and carrots by cutting them into medium pieces.
4. We crush the garlic without cutting it, so that we can remove it whole later.
5. We remove the cheeks from the cocotte and set them aside on a plate.
6. In the same cocotte, while still hot, we add the vegetables to sauté. We also add a little salt.
7. Once the vegetables have lost all their water, we put the cheeks back into the cocotte and add the dry white wine.
8. Once the alcohol has evaporated, add the vegetable broth.
9. We put the covered cocotte in the oven at 150ºC for 45 minutes.
10. We take them out and transfer them to a frying pan (only the cheeks and the liquid) and let them set aside for 1 hour.
11. When we want to eat them, we can reheat them either on the stove or in the oven.

Grades

• We have chosen onion and carrot to prepare this recipe, but any other vegetables you have in the fridge or pantry, such as celery, leeks, etc., would also work.
• You can accompany this dish with mashed potatoes, it will be a perfect match. Or if you want to expand the recipe, you can prepare some noodles or rice, and you will have a dish that will go a long way (Noodles with cheeks will become a great dish for the whole family!).