Beef carbonade
2
Points®
Total time: 2 hr • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 1 hr 45 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy
This super simple, filling and full flavoured stew is quintessential comfort food that can be put together then forgotten about while you put your feet up
Ingredients
Vegetable oil
2 tsp
Leek
1 whole, trimmed, sliced
Carrot(s)
1 medium, peeled, finely chopped
Celery
1 stick(s), trimmed, thinly sliced
Beef chuck steak, raw
500 g, (buy 650g), fat trimmed, cut into 2.5cm pieces
Plain flour
1 tbs
Lager beer
1 cup(s), (250ml)
Beef stock
½ cup(s), (125ml)
Dijon mustard
2 tbs
Worcestershire sauce
1 tbs
Fresh flat-leaf parsley
2 tbs, coarsley chopped
Instructions
1
Heat half the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add leek, carrot and celery and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until vegetables have softened.
2
Meanwhile, heat remaining oil in a large non-stick frying pan over high heat. Dust beef with flour, shaking off excess. Cook beef, in batches, turning, for 5 minutes or until browned. Transfer to saucepan with vegetables.
3
Add beer, stock, mustard and Worcestershire sauce to frying pan and bring to the boil, scraping any brown bits from the base of the pan. Pour stock mixture over beef mixture and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer, covered, for 1½–2 hours or until beef is tender. Serve sprinkled with parsley.
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