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Beef in root vegetable cream sauce
Think of it as: Like a Sunday pot roast that came with dessert toppings
Beef, cream sauce, jam and whipped cream. Yes.
What does it taste like?
Creamy, sweet-sour vegetable sauce with tender beef and tart cranberry.
SweetSpicySourSaltyFunkSmellTextureSmooth sauce, moist meat
What is it?
A Czech home-cooked dish: beef is roasted with root vegetables, which are then blended with cream into a silky sauce. Served with bread dumplings called "knedlíky," sweet cranberries and whipped cream.Source: Wikipedia
How locals eat it
Served at Sunday dinners and weddings. Wipe up the sauce with the knedlíky.
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SportSoccer
Jaromír Jágr (ice hockey; NHL legend) World HeritageHistoric Centre of Prague and more National animalDouble-tailed lion FestivalPrague Spring International Music Festival (May-June)
Ingredients
- Beef (tenderloin or round) 600 g
- Carrots 2
- Celeriac (or celery) 1/2
- Onion 1
- Heavy cream 200 ml
- Vinegar 2 tbsp
- Cranberry jam, as needed
- Knedlíky (bread dumplings), as needed
Can't find it? No celeriac? Use regular celery plus parsley stems.
How to make it (one way)
- Salt the beef and marinate overnight with chopped root vegetables, onion, vinegar and spices
- Roast with the vegetables for about 1 hour 30 minutes
- Remove the meat and blend the vegetables and juices until smooth
- Transfer to a pot, add cream and simmer until thick
- Pour the sauce over sliced beef and knedlíky, and add jam and whipped cream
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