How to Remove Fat From Beef

Series Summary

Nothing satisfies like a bowl of hot homemade soup on a cold, dreary day. Food has the special ability to give us more than just nutrition; sometimes it can make us feel loved, feel like the world is just a little bit better than it was two minutes ago. Homemade cuisine is especially welcome in a society that does everything on the go, including eating. Getting back into the kitchen can be a welcome reminder of what fresh, hot meals taste like, and that a home-cooked meal will beat fast food any day of the week.

In this free cooking video series, learn how to make a bowl of hearty, healthy vegetable beef soup. Our expert will guide you through this recipe step-by-step, including having the right ingredients, preparing the beef stock, adding the vegetables, herbs, and seasonings, and an extra tip for thickening up your soup without using fillers like flour or cornstarch. Enjoy!

This series is an Equilibrio Films production.

Video Transcript

" Hello! This is Helen McMahon from Expert Village. Today we are going to use some of that leftover holiday lovely rib roast to make a beautiful soup. You probably have something like this sitting in your refrigerator wondering what you are going to do with these beautiful bones. I am going to show you a wonderful way to use them up and to make a delicious soup with the beef and the bones incorporated into the broth and vegetables to go along as well. The first thing we want to do is get rid of some of this excess fat; we do not need that. You might want to cut some of it down using a small paring knife so that you can just scrape it off into a container. By the way, the birds will love this and they need all the fat they can get in the summertime. So with your scrapings, you can put them into a container and put them out in the bird feeder or just scrape them into the corner of the branch as it meets the trunk of the tree. The birds can use that to keep warm and to fortify them over the winter. We do not need it because we are trying to cut down on our cholesterol but don’t throw it out because your wildlife will be grateful for it. Notice that I am using a plastic cutting board. Anytime you are using a cutting board for fish or for any kind of poultry or meat, it is not recommended that you use a wooden one because the wood will absorb some of the material that it is cut on and it becomes ingrained into the wood of the board, so use a plastic one for your fish, poultry or meat; that way you can wash it very thoroughly with hot soapy water and have it ready and it will be safe to use. Here is a rather large chunk of fat; we can cut that right out and the birds will be happy for that in this cold winter weather. "