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Beef, guinness and mushroom stew

Sophie Grigson from Good Food Live
On a cold winter night try Sophie Grigson's warming winter stew, slow-cooked tender beef in a rich Guinness gravy.

Beef, guinness and mushroom stew

Method

1. Pre-heat the oven to 170C.

2. Toss the beef lightly in seasoned flour.

3. Heat a third of the butter and 1 tablespoon of the oil in a frying pan and brown the meat briskly in batches, without overcrowding the pan. Transfer the browned beef to a casserole.

4. Add a little more butter and oil to the pan and fry the onions until lightly browned. Scoop into the casserole. Finally fry the button mushrooms and add those to the casserole too.

5. Pour the Guinness into the frying pan and bring to the boil, scraping in the brown residues from frying. Stir in the tomato puree and sugar.

6. Pour the Guinness mixture into the casserole, add enough hot water to come about 3/4 of the way up the meat and add the bouquet garni, salt and freshly ground pepper.

7. Cover and transfer to the oven. Cook for 2-3 hours or until the meat is very tender. Check occasionally, giving it a stir, and if necessary add a little more hot water.

8. Remove the stalks from the shitake mushrooms and discard. Slice the caps thickly. Heat the remaining butter in a frying pan and sauté the mushrooms, then stir into the casserole and return to the oven for 5 minutes.

9. Discard the bouquet garni, adjust the seasoning and serve.

Comments add a comment

taggy2 | Posted 19-Apr-08

is the tomato puree enough to thicken it

imac1 | Posted 17-Apr-08

excellent

Cleary | Posted 16-Apr-08

Could I freeze this?

Serves: 6

Prep: 15 min
Cook: 3 hrs 30 min

Ingredients
900g shin of beef, trimmed and cut into 2.5cm cubes
seasoned plain flour, for dusting
50g Butter
2 tbsp sunflower oil
2 Onions, roughly chopped
100g button mushrooms
300ml Guinness
2 tbsp tomato purée
1 tbsp Sugar
1 bouquet garni, (1 bay leaf, 2 sprigs of thyme, 2 sprigs of parsley, 1 sprig of rosemary, tied together with a string)
salt and fresh ground black pepper
225g shitake mushrooms