Easy Beef Bourguignon

This is an easy dish to do with maximum flavour the recipe was adapted from a recipe on French cooking academy Youtube page https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lG3Ihe4LGV851lODRIS5g

Ingredients for 4

500-750 grams of  Casserole steak
approx 300 ml of  good beef or veal stock
approx 300ml of  Red Burgundy wine
1 carrot diced
1 Onion diced
1 Bouquet Garni
2 Garlic Gloves
20 grams of Plain Flour

For Garnish

100 grams of Mushrooms Fried
100 grams of bacon cut into cubes  Fried
10 shallots or pearl onions  Carmelised by covering in water , 2 big pinches of sugar and 2 nudges of butter and cook until water evaporates.
Parsley

Method

1) Brown the beef and set aside whilst doing  turn your oven at 240 oC , and slowly warm the wine and stock
2) Then cook the carrots and Onions for  5 minutes
3) Add the beef back and  add the flour and put in an oven for 5 minutes
4) Take out and mix the flour well
5) Add the stock and wine so it just covers the meat
6)  Add the garlic cloves and Bouqet Garni
7) Put in the oven at 200 oC and  check from time to time
8) When cooked take the meat out  , sieve the sauce  and pour over the meat  add the mushrooms , bacon and carmelised onions and garnish with parsley.




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