skip to main
|
skip to sidebar
Bistro Braised Beef With Shiitake and Pearl Onions
Time: 2 hrs 6 mins
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb shiitake mushrooms or 1/2 lb oyster mushrooms or 1/2 lb your favourite mushroom
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 lbs stewing beef, cut into 1 to 11/2-inch (2.5 to 4 cm)
- 1 cup brewed coffee (your favorite)
- 3/4 cup water
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 3 sprigs fresh thyme (or 1 tsp/5 mL dried)
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano leaves
- 2 -3 cups baby carrots
- 2 -3 cups peeled white pearl onions
- fresh ground black pepper
Directions
- 1 Clean shiitake and remove stems, if using other mushrooms simply clean.
- 2 Leave whole or if mushrooms are large, thickly slice.
- 3 In a large wide saucepan or Dutch oven, melt butter and 1 tbsp (15 mL) olive oil over medium-high.
- 4 Add mushrooms and cook until tender, about 3 minutes.
- 5 Remove from heat and turn into a bowl.
- 6 In a large bowl, stir flour with salt.
- 7 Add beef and lightly coat in flour.
- 8 In the pan that mushrooms were cooked in, heat remaining oil over medium-high heat. Cook half the meat until browned all over, then remove to a bowl.
- 9 Repeat with remaining meat adding a little more oil.
- 10 Stir in coffee, water, garlic, vinegar, brown sugar,Worcestershire, herbs and meat in bowl to the saucepan.
- 11 Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce heat to medium-low, mixture should be gently simmering.
- 12 Stir occasionally for 1 1/2 hours, meat should nearly be tender.
- 13 Stir in carrots and onions.
- 14 Continue to cook, simmering gently and stirring occasionally until meat is very tender, about 30 minutes.
- 15 If you would like sauce a little thicker, uncover and simmer 15 to 20 minutes.
- 16 Stir in mushrooms.
- 17 Add pepper to taste.
- 18 Serve with mashed potatoes or egg noodles, sprinkled with parsley or fresh thyme.
- 19 PEELING PEARL ONIONS:.
- 20 Drop unpeeled onions in boiling water for a minute or so.
- 21 Plunge into cold water.
- 22 Cut base of onions and squeeze.
- 23 Onions will pop out of skin.
0 komentarze :
Prześlij komentarz