Slow Cooker Osso Buco Nilaga

Osso Buco or Shin-Bone In is a quality choice of beef that works best in slow cooked meals for cold winter nights. It means 'hollowed bone' which refers to the marrow-filled shin bone.
The osso buco nilaga is a Filipino beef soup that is simply healthy and comforting!

Equipment: 

• Slow cooker, 6.5 liter
• Fat separator
  

Ingredients

• 500 grams Australian Osso Buco or Shin-Bone In, 2 pieces
• 2 pieces washed large potatoes, peeled and quartered
• 1 piece onion, quartered
• 1 stalk celery, trimmed and sliced
• 8 pieces beans, trimmed
• 1/4 cabbage, quartered
• 1/2 tablespoon Saxa Blended Peppercorns
• 1 liter water
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• 2 pieces Continental Beef Stock Pot, dissolved in 1 liter boiling water

To Serve

• spicy fish sauce
• steamed rice

Method

1. Place the pieces of osso buco osso buco, onion, celery, potatoes, blended peppercorns, prepared beef stock pot and water in the slow cooker. Slow cook in high for 5 hours.
2. After 2 hours (approx.) of slow cooking, remove the impurities on the surface of the soup. Close the lid and continue cooking.
3. After 4 hours of slow cooking. Remove the fats in the surface of the soup using fat separator as much as you could.
4. Season with fish sauce, then add cabbage. Close the lid and continue cooking for 1 hour.
5. Serve hot with steamed rice!

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