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Boiled beef in gherkin sauce - recipe

Regional speciality Northwest Bohemia

Sauces of all kinds are one of the main features of Czech cuisine. They appear on Czech plates most often in the company of beef. This is the case here, too, and this recipe proves that you can make a good sauce from practically any vegetable.

Ingredients:

600 g boiled beef 100 g butter 100 g pickled gherkins 1 onion

300 ml beef stock 300 ml whipping cream freshly ground white pepper salt

Instructions:

Finely dice the onion and sweat in butter. Pour in the cream and stock and leave to reduce by around a half. Season with pieces of gherkin, salt and white pepper. Simmer and serve with boiled beef and bread dumplings.