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Beef Heart

How to Cook Beef Heart in the Slow Cooker

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Beef Heart, raw on a wood background

I purchased a beef heart last spring during a local grassfed beef sale and had been intimidated by it ever since.  Since it has the potential to be tough, I wanted to use long slow heat to cook it.  It turned out great!

It turns out that beef heart is delicious! What a pleasant surprise.   For an organ meat, it’s not weird at all, and it isn’t tough like I expected. It was easy to cook in the Instant Pot.

Beef heart is rich in CoQ10, and that it is recommended by Sally Fallon in Nourishing Traditions to serve your family organ meats often.  She recommends grinding up heart meat and mixing it in with ground beef. Other than that, there have been very few further mentions of heart, its benefits, and how to cook or serve it.  It turns out, though, that CoQ10, which is super high in heart, is also super beneficially especially in aging people.

CoQ10 For Cardiovascular Disease and Inflammation Treatment

CoQ10 improves energy, augments the immune system, and acts as an antioxidant. (source)

Though CoQ10 is produced in humans, supplementation may also be useful especially with aging.

There is evidence that supplementation positively affects mitochondrial deficiency syndrome and the symptoms of aging based mainly on improvements in bioenergetics. Cardiovascular disease and inflammation are alleviated by the antioxidant effect of CoQ10.  (source)

Despite the knowledge of the importance of CoQ10, it was hard to track down many studies of where it can be found in food. Placating ‘in fresh fruits and vegetables’ was thrown around in various mainstream articles, without specifics.  Upon further digging, I found that CoQ10 is super high in heart and liver of any animal, most specifically heart!

See the tables below comparing mg of CoQ10 in heart vs liver, muscle meat, vegetables, and grains.

And lucky for us, heart is also inexpensive, easy to prepare, and delicious!

Source https://www.academia.edu/17827432/Coenzyme_Q10_Contents_in_Foods_and_Fortification_Strategies

Another win for organ meats, and the traditions of eating every part of the animal.

How to Serve Beef Heart

Think of the beef heart as a nice big flavorful roast.  In my experience, heart is even easier than roasts to cook since it doesn’t dry out.

Here we cook the heart on its own, but you could quarter peeled onions and cook them with the heart, or add sliced carrots and celery as well with no change in cooking time.

Beef heart can be purchased as pieces from US Wellness Meats, or your local butcher probably can set one aside for you.

 

Beef Heart

Beef Heart in the Slow Cooker

Course: Meat
Cuisine: Allergy Friendly, Diary-Free, Easy, GAPS Diet
Keyword: beef heart, instant pot
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 8 hours
Servings: 12 servings
Calories: 169 kcal
Author: Cara

Beef Heart cooks up easily in the Slow Cooker (Crockpot) and is a tender, mild-flavored organ meat that is rich in CoQ10, protein, B12, folate, and more. 

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Ingredients

  • 1 beef heart 3-4 lbs
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 onions optional

Instructions

  1. Peel and quarter optional onion, and place in the bottom of the slow cooker. 

  2. If not cut in half, cut beef heart in half and remove any hard bits (it may already be trimmed and there is nothing to do).  Place in the slow cooker on top of the onion if using, and sprinkle with sea salt.  Pour water around the salted beef heart.

  3. Place the lid on the slow cooker and cook on low for 8-10 hours.

  4. Slice thinly against the grain, salt as desired, and enjoy.  The sliced pieces can be served as you would serve steak, topped with sauce like chili-lime mayo, salted, or even diced and added to stir fry or soup, or slice thinly and use as lunchmeat in sandwiches. 

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Nutrition Facts
Beef Heart in the Slow Cooker
Amount Per Serving (5 ounces)
Calories 169 Calories from Fat 45
% Daily Value*
Fat 5g8%
Saturated Fat 2g10%
Cholesterol 187mg62%
Sodium 342mg14%
Potassium 433mg12%
Protein 26g52%
Vitamin C 3.1mg4%
Calcium 11mg1%
Iron 6.5mg36%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Alternative Option: Beef Heart in the Instant Pot

 

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About Cara

Cara is the main author here at Health Home and Happiness. She loves the health and energy that eating well and playing well provides and has a goal to share what she's learned with as many families interested in making healthy changes as possible.

She helps other families achieve health in simple steps through healing their gut with the GAPS Diet and helps them stock their freezer for busy days with the Allergy-Friendly Afternoon Freezer Cooking Class.

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