You need to make this amazing beef sauce

Beef dripping or tallow is the fat rendered from beef. It makes great potatoes, pastry, and is the core ingredient of this brilliant sauce which pairs fantastically well with lamb and beef. I use xanthan gum as a thickener. This is my take on the sauce they offer at Miller & Carter steakhouses, a UK restaurant chain. It's not sponsored or official, but is my interpretation from having eaten it (far too often!). Full version of recipe with quantities and timings here https://bigspud.co.uk/beef-dripping-sauce-miller-and-carter-style/ INGREDIENTS 50 g beef dripping 2 shallots 3 garlic cloves ½ star anise 100 g fatty stewing steak like skirt, flank, chuck etc 80 g red wine 20 g port 500 g beef stock ½ teaspoon sugar red wine vinegar ¼ teaspoon xanthan gum see notes INSTRUCTIONS Get a wide sauce pan over a medium heat. Peel and finely dice the shallots. Peel and mince the garlic. Slice the beef into thin slices. Add about a third of the beef dripping to the pan and once melted, add the shallots, garlic, star anise and beef and stir fry for 4 - 6 minutes. Cook until the beef has started to brown and everything smells great. Turn the heat up. Discard the star anise. Add the red wine and port and move everything around to get the great crusty bits off the bottom of the pan. Once the wine has bubbled away to about a third of it's volume, add in the beef stock and remaining beef dripping. Bring to a furious boil. Let this all simmer away until it's about half of what you started with. This will take 20 - 30 minutes. Strain off all the solids (see note) and return the sauce to the pan. Turn the heat down low and adjust seasoning: it might need salt, pepper and a pinch of sugar, and add a couple of drops (I do mean a couple of drops) of red wine vinegar to taste to help balance the richness. Once the flavour is right, whisk in the xanthan gum. You can serve immediately, or it refrigerates or freezes well. @PolarIceCreamery guide to xanthan gum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2dHQtIhY88 Olivia Newton John 'Xanadu' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLi8fTlDEag Rush 'Xanadu' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuOoMprDqg Winery Dogs 'Xanadu' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAUnJeYvKGM Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9dtAQNbb1NPqSIWoOyYNA/join Find me on X https://twitter.com/BigSpud Find me on Instagram https://instagram.com/TheBigSpud Find me on Facebook https://facebook.com/TheBigSpud Visit my blog for over 1,000 recipes, product reviews and restaurant reviews https://bigspud.co.uk ============================= Table of Contents: ============================= 0:00 - Ingredients 1:47 - Getting everything on to simmer 3:24 - Miller & Carter 5:17 - Thickening your sauce 6:37 - Finishing the sauce 8:14 - Tasting AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE: Some of the links used in the description will direct you to Amazon. I get a small kickback from purchases through this at no additional cost to you. #steak #beef #recipe