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Published: 20th August 2008

Roll up for some mighty meaty treats

What could be better after some hectic Christmas shopping than these delicious beefy recipes? ask Clare Latimer

WITH Christmas shopping on all our minds now is the time to get down to the West End and have a taste of some wonderful Irish beef. It is a good chance to see the variation of taste that grazing gives to meat.
Irish chef Clodagh McKenna will be appearing in London’s Selfridges’ Food Hall this weekend. As part of the store’s ‘Food Glamorous Food’ festival, she will be demonstrating a selection of delicious recipes using prime Irish West Cork Beef on Friday November 17 from 5pm-7pm and again on both Saturday and Sunday (November 18 and 19) from 12pm-2pm. Visitors to the store will be able to sample the best of Irish beef and join in the chance to win a fantastic hamper packed full of the best of Irish food and drink.

Tender Beef Wraps
Strips of sirloin beef flavoured with chilli, ginger, garlic with spring onions, wrapped in a tortilla with salad for a fast and satisfying snack or light lunch. If you can’t get the Irish beef then buy steak from a good butcher and the result will be the same but with a different flavour.

Serves 4
Ingredients
225g of Irish West Cork Beef sirloin steak, cut into thin strips.
One chilli, seeded and shredded.
Two teaspoons of grated ginger.
Two cloves of garlic, peeled and crushed.
Eight spring onions, trimmed and sliced.
Two tablespoons olive oil.
A good dash of Tabasco sauce.
Salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Four tortillas.
One tablespoons of sunflower oil.
A bag of salad leaves.

Method
Place the beef strips in a bowl and add chilli, ginger, garlic and spring onions. Season. Cover with olive oil and a good dash of Tabasco. Leave for 20 minutes. Heat oil in a pan and transfer strips and flavourings to pan. Toss around for just two minutes to sear the meat. Remove with a slotted spoon and blot on kitchen paper.
Warm the tortillas. Divide the beef mix between them and add salad leaves. Roll up. Serve with extra salad on the side.

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