I Fall To Pieces Beef Stew

Name: I Fall To Pieces Beef Stew
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters bacon, cubed; 1 bay leaf; 2 beef shank with marrow; 355 milliliters beef stock; 59 milliliters carrots, brunoise; 237 milliliters carrots, large chunks; 59 milliliters celery, brunoise; 1 kilograms Chuck roast, cubed; 710 milliliters red wine (dry); 4 servings fleur du sel; 2 Tbsps flour; 3 Tbsps fresh grated horseradish; 4 cloves garlic, peeled; 1 tiny garlic clove, smashed to pieces; 2 Tbsps lemon zest; 1 Tbsp olive oil; 118 milliliters onions, bruinoise; 6 cippolini onions, peeled, halved; 1 teaspoon korean red pepper flakes; 2 Tbsps Korean red pepper flakes; 2 sprigs thyme; 1 Tbsp tomato paste; 237 milliliters chopped parsely; 1 Tbsp lemon juice

I Fall To Pieces Beef Stew might be just the main course you are searching for. One serving contains 1013 calories, 83g of protein, and 47g of fat. This recipe covers 49% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 4. It will be a hit at your Autumn event. It is a good option if you're following a dairy free diet. If you have bacon, tiny garlic clove, beef shank, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the dry red wine you could follow this main course with the Pinot Noir Brownies as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

Pat meat dry and season generously with salt, pepper and korean red pepper flakes, try not to weep as meat must be dry in order to brown properly

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Red Pepper Flakes

Pepper

Meat

Salt

Fry bacon cubes till crisp, remove, pour off half the fat set aside, resist the urge to do a shot of bacon fat with bacon bits, it will do you no good.

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Bacon Bits

Bacon

Shot

Brown meat in bacon fat, do this in batches, you don't want to crowd the meat, it needs space (sob), set the browned meat in a bowl so to catch any juices

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Bacon Drippings

Meat

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Bowl

Pour off a bit of the beef fat and add mirepoix (carrots,celery. onion), bay leaf & thyme, season with salt & pepper and sweat

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Salt And Pepper

Bay Leaves

Beef Fat

Mirepoix

Carrot

Celery

Onion

Thyme

Add tomato paste, push the mirepoix off to the side of the pan and make a little solo area for the tomato paste, push and prod it a bit till it starts to turn rusty in color, when that happens mix it all up together

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Tomato Paste

Mirepoix

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Frying Pan

Sprinkle flour over the veg and stir that a bit to cook the flour

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All Purpose Flour

Add in carrot chunks, cippolini onions and any bacon bits left over from your constant snacking. Stir that in as well

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Bacon Bits

Carrot

Onion

Pour a small bit of the beef stock in to the pan, just enough to get all the fond, really get in deep to get to the bottom of it all

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Beef Stock

Stock

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Frying Pan

Add beef chunks along with all of the juice that may have seeped out

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Juice

Beef

Add remaining beef stock and whatever wine you have not guzzled along side the bits of bacon.

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Beef Stock

Bacon

Wine

Cover, put on back burner and let it stew, simmer for about 3 hours..on low. Go out and get your nails done or go to best friends house, do something constructive, do not stare at it willing it to be done whilst drinking more wine or eating bacon.

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Bacon

Stew

Wine

It will be done when the meat is soft and welcoming, the marrow has oozed from the bones and the onions have disintegrated in to gooey sweet bits.

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Onion

Meat

If you've got it in you.. this would be wonderful with buttery mashed potatoes...though you could add a few cube potatoes in about 2 hours in to the cooking time if you like.

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Potato