Short Ribs

For her addictive short rib and shiitake skewers, Food & Wine’s Laura Rege does a very quick and simple marinade of mirin, vinegar, sake, soy sauce and brown sugar, which imparts a fantastic sweet and salty flavor to the dish.

F&W's Justin Chapple quickly grills flanken-cut short ribs (cut across the bones) until they're juicy and delectably charred.

Before cooking, these short ribs are rubbed with five-spice salt so they’ve got deep, rich flavor. You can use either six-inch or three-inch ribs for the dish; the cooking time will be the same.

This twist on the British Sunday Roast swaps tender, red-wine-braised short ribs and a root vegetable mash for the traditional roast beef and potatoes.

Chef Erin French cooks her ultra-tender short ribs with beets, then serves them with buttery pureed parsnips, horseradish cream and pickled onions.

Tom Colicchio is a master with meat, and his tender, succulent braised short ribs are much in demand. He marinates the short ribs along with vegetables in wine, then discards those vegetables and braises the ribs with fresh vegetables.

To go with his tender braised short ribs, Hugh Acheson puts a spin on the classic Southern side of collard greens by adding a few tablespoons of umami-rich miso.

This rich braise is sweet, smoky and pleasantly bitter all at once. It comes from a Food52 member with the screen name hardlikearmour, who uses a smoked porter from the Alaskan Brewing Company. If you can’t find smoked porter, substitute a regular porter or another dark beer. Polenta is the ideal accompaniment for the short ribs and their luscious sauce, but mashed potatoes or egg noodles would also work well.

Cooks often braise short ribs, but here, the rich ribs are marinated in a mix of apple juice, lemon juice and soy sauce, then grilled until charred on the outside and medium-rare within.

This beef stew is hearty, soothing and packed with flavor. Adding caramelized kimchi as a condiment makes it even more delicious.

"A good sauce is the bridge between the meat and the wine," says Ken Frank. When pairing beef with Cabernet, he usually serves a hearty red-wine sauce, like the one on these short ribs. Veal stock gives the dish extra-deep flavor, but chicken stock (preferably homemade) works well too.

"This type of dressing is in my blood," Alex Raij says. "It's like the chimichurri I grew up eating when visiting family in Argentina." The thinly sliced short ribs here are perfect for quick grilling. Ask your butcher to cut them flanken-style, or look for them at Asian markets.

These tender short ribs are served in an intense broth made sweet with mirin and brown sugar and dark with soy sauce and sherry. "This is a variation of a Korean dish called kalbi tang," Sang Yoon says.

To layer the flavors in this dish, chef Rory Herrmann at Bouchon in Beverly Hills marinates beef short ribs and vegetables in red wine overnight, then uses the marinade in the braise as well.

Try a full-bodied, peppery Zinfandel from California to pair with this fragrant dish.

Adam Perry Lang first roasts short ribs, then braises them in beef stock with porcini mushrooms, until the meat is fall-apart tender. He finishes the cholent by stirring matzo farfel (crushed matzo) into the pan juices until it plumps up. Fresh baby spinach and crunchy sea salt complete the dish.

This warming eastern European short rib stew is best served in deep bowls over buttery noodles.

When Ethan Stowell was growing up, his father was the family cook; beef stew was one of his specialties. Unlike his dad, who favored rump roast, Stowell uses short ribs, a marbled cut that turns fabulously succulent and tender when slow-simmered.

Chewy udon noodles have a mild flavor that's wonderful with the delicate spices in this rich beef broth from chef Nobuo Fukuda of Sea Saw in Scottsdale, Arizona, who was an F&W Best New Chef in 2003. Udon is available at Asian markets and some supermarkets, but if you can't find them, Italian egg noodles are the best alternative.

Sommelier Clint Sloan of McCrady's in Charleston, South Carolina, swears by this easy short ribs recipe, adapted from the Joy of Cooking, because it brings out the flavors in the braising wine.

This warming curry has a good bit of heat to it; serve with lots of rice to round out the meal.

Farro is a chewy, earthy emmer wheat that’s grown in Tuscany, where chef Marco Canora’s mother is from. When cooked risotto-style, as it is here, the grain releases its starch into the broth, making it creamy.

Traditional Korean cooking meets French technique in the elegant take on kalbi jim from chef Sohui Kim of The Good Fork in Brooklyn. Kim braises the short ribs slowly in red wine, instead of boiling them, for extra-tender meat and a rich, flavorful sauce.