Recipe: Slow Cooked Shortrib Ragu

Ingredients

• 4 T olive oil
• 2 onions, roughly chopped
• 3 leeks, washed and roughly chopped
• 6 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
• 2 carrots, roughly chopped
• 2 celery stalks, roughly chopped
• 2 bay leaves
• Salt, to taste
• 1 x 400 g chopped tomatoes can
• 2 T tomato paste
• 2 cups water or good-quality beef stock
• 1.5 kg beef shortrib
• Freshly ground black pepper, to taste