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Grilled Bones
Created by Chef Juliette
Os de Bœuf Grillés prove a roast isn't finished when carving ends: meaty bones, cayenne, and Dijon meet fierce heat until the edges crisp and the mustard bronzes.
Os de Bœuf Grillés teach the discipline of looking twice at a roast. A scraped-clean bone belongs in the stockpot; a bone with browned meat and soft fat still clinging is another course waiting to happen. That is the one true thing to know before you begin: the meat left on the bones is not untidy carving, it is the dish.
The original entry assumed a sirloin broken down by a brigade and a salamander standing ready. It needed neither the saucier nor the perpetual stockpot supporting the rest of grand-kitchen service. For one cook, the honest equivalent is four hand-sized bones and the broiler already built into the stove. The brigade's trimming is scaffolding and can go; the cayenne-first sequence, mustard coating, and fierce top heat are the dish itself, so they stay exactly where the book put them.
Watch the mustard, not the clock. It must blister and bronze while the scraps of beef grow crisp at their edges, but black mustard tastes bitter. Stay beside the broiler for these few minutes and dinner gives you an encore.
Ingredients
meaty bones from a fully cooked roast sirloin
Quantity
4 bones (about 1½ to 2 lb / 680 to 900 g total)
separated into hand-sized sections
smooth Dijon mustard
Quantity
3 tablespoons (45 ml / 45 g)
cayenne pepper
Quantity
¼ teaspoon (1.25 ml / 0.5 g)
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| meaty bones from a fully cooked roast sirloinseparated into hand-sized sections | 4 bones (about 1½ to 2 lb / 680 to 900 g total) |
| smooth Dijon mustard | 3 tablespoons (45 ml / 45 g) |
| cayenne pepper | ¼ teaspoon (1.25 ml / 0.5 g) |
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