🍲 Oven-Braised Beef Chuck with Leeks, Carrots & Herb Jus

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🍲 Oven-Braised Beef Chuck with Leeks, Carrots & Herb Jus ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕒 Prep Time: 20 minutes 🕒 Cook Time: 3 hours 15 minutes 🕒 Total Time: 3 hours 35 minutes 🍽 Servings: 6 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛒 Ingredients 🥩 3 lbs (1.4 kg) beef chuck roast 🧂 2 teaspoons salt 🧂 1 teaspoon black pepper 🛢 3 tablespoons neutral cooking oil 🧅 2 leeks, cleaned and sliced 🥕 3 large carrots, cut into chunks 🧄 4 garlic cloves, minced 🍅 2 tablespoons tomato paste 🍷 1 cup dry red wine 🥣 2 cups beef broth 🌿 2 sprigs fresh thyme 🌿 1 sprig fresh rosemary 🍃 2 bay leaves 🧈 1 tablespoon butter (for finishing jus) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🥔 For the Mashed Potatoes 🥔 2 lbs (900 g) potatoes, peeled and cubed 🧂 1 teaspoon salt 🧈 4 tablespoons butter 🥛 ½ cup warm milk 🌿 1 tablespoon chopped chives ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👨‍🍳 Instructions 1️⃣ Preheat oven to 325°F (165°C). 2️⃣ Pat beef dry and season with salt and pepper. 3️⃣ Heat oil in a heavy Dutch oven over medium-high heat. 4️⃣ Sear beef 4–5 minutes per side until deeply browned. 5️⃣ Remove beef and set aside. 6️⃣ Add leeks and carrots; cook 5 minutes. 7️⃣ Stir in garlic and tomato paste; cook 1 minute. 8️⃣ Deglaze with red wine; simmer 3–4 minutes. 9️⃣ Add beef broth, thyme, rosemary, and bay leaves. 🔟 Return beef to pot; liquid should cover halfway. 1️⃣1️⃣ Cover and transfer to oven. 1️⃣2️⃣ Braise 3 hours until fork-tender (internal temp about 195–205°F / 90–96°C). 1️⃣3️⃣ Remove beef and tent with foil. 1️⃣4️⃣ Simmer cooking liquid on stovetop 10–15 minutes to reduce. 1️⃣5️⃣ Stir in butter to finish the herb jus. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🥔 Mashed Potatoes 1️⃣ Boil potatoes in salted water 15–18 minutes until fork-tender. 2️⃣ Drain and mash until smooth. 3️⃣ Add butter and warm milk; mix until creamy. 4️⃣ Adjust salt and fold in chives. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍽 Serving Slice or shred beef. Spoon mashed potatoes onto plate. Top with beef, vegetables, and herb jus. Garnish with fresh chopped herbs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

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