BEEF AND ALE STEW | BEEF RECIPES | JAMIE OLIVER RECIPES
A good stew is delicious, comforting, nutritious, homely, nostalgic, cheap to make and can be eaten and enjoyed in so many different ways. This basic stew will work every time and should be thought of as a principal recipe that you can chop and change, using different meats, herbs and liquids – think chicken or butter beans and white wine, lamb and red wine, or pork and cider. Stews are great to serve up for family dinners, because once they’re cooking away in the oven you’re free to do other things.
Total Time 3 hours 20 minutes
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- If using the oven to cook the stew, preheat it to 180ºC/350ºF/gas 4.
- Put a large shallow ovenproof casserole pan on a medium heat with 2 tablespoons of oil.
- Trim the celery, wash the carrots, peel the onions, then roughly chop it all about the same size as your beef chunks, adding the veg to the pan as you go.
- Season the veg with sea salt and black pepper, and fry for 10 minutes, or until softened and starting to caramelise, stirring occasionally.
- Strip in the rosemary leaves, stir in the flour for 2 minutes, then pour in the booze and let it cook away.
- Pour in the tomatoes, breaking them up with the back of the spoon. Fill the tin with water, swirl around, and pour into the pan.
- Bring just to the boil, then stir in the meat, season, and cover. Either simmer slowly on the hob or place in the oven for 2 hours, or until the meat falls apart easily.
- Taste the stew and tweak the seasoning, if needed, then serve with rice or mashed potato, and some lovely veggies, or check out the topping ideas below.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 334 calories, FatContent 13 g fat, SaturatedFatContent 4 g saturated fat, ProteinContent 30.8 g protein, CarbohydrateContent 20.2 g carbohydrate, SugarContent 10.4 g sugar, SodiumContent 0.8 g salt, FiberContent 3.6 g fibre
PROPER BEEF, ALE & MUSHROOM PIE RECIPE | BBC GOOD FOOD
Escape to your kitchen this weekend and make this comfort food classic – it's well worth the effort
Provided by Barney Desmazery
Categories Dinner, Main course
Total Time 4 hours
Prep Time 1 hours
Cook Time 3 hours
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- If you’re using the porcini mushrooms, cover 10g of mushrooms in boiling water for 20 mins, then squeeze out but keep the soaking water.
- Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Heat 1 tbsp vegetable oil in a large casserole dish, brown 1kg large chunks of braising steak really well in batches, then set aside.
- Add 2 large onions, roughly chopped, and 4 large carrots, chopped into large chunks, to the pan. Add a drizzle more vegetable oil, then cook on a low heat for 5 mins until coloured.
- Add the soaked porcini mushrooms, sizzle for 1 min more, then scatter over 2 tsp golden caster sugar and 4 tbsp plain flour, stirring until the flour turns brown.
- Tip the braising steak and any juices back into the pan and give it all a good stir.
- Pour over 300ml dark ale, 2 beef stock cubes mixed with 400ml boiling water and the porcini mushroom soaking liquid, discarding the last few drops.
- Season the stew, tuck in a small tied-together bunch of thyme, bay leaf and parsley, and bring everything to a simmer.
- Cover with a lid and place in the oven for about 2 hrs, until the braising steak is really tender.
- While the stew is cooking, heat a drop more vegetable oil in a frying pan and sizzle 200g smoked bacon lardons for 3 mins until crisp.
- Turn up the heat, add 200g halved chestnut mushrooms and cook for 4 mins until golden. Remove from the heat and, when the stew is cooked, stir them through.
- Leave everything to cool completely – better still, make this up to 2 days in advance and keep it in the fridge as the pie will be better if the filling is fridge-cold when added. Can also be frozen for up to 3 months and defrosted when needed.
- Make the pastry up to 2 days before you want to assemble the pie. Crumble 650g plain flour and 250g cold diced lard or butter, together with a generous pinch of sea salt until completely combined, then add up to 200ml ice-cold water to make a soft dough. This can be done in a food processor if you want.
- Knead the pastry, then wrap in cling film and leave to rest in the fridge for at least 1 hr. The pastry can be made up to 2 days ahead and kept in the fridge or frozen for up to a month.
- When you want to make the pie, heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7 and place a flat baking tray in the oven. Heavily grease a 24-28cm pie dish and dust well with flour.
- Cut a third off the pastry and set aside. Roll out the pastry to a thickish round that will easily line the pie dish with an overhang, then line the tin.
- Add the braising steak to the dish using a slotted spoon so some gravy is left in the container, as you don’t want too much sauce in the pie. You want the filling to be slightly higher than the rim of the dish. If you have a bit too much, set it aside.
- Roll out the remaining pastry to a thick round big enough to cover the dish. Brush the edges of the pastry in the dish with 1 beaten egg yolk, then cover with the pastry lid.
- Trim the edges, crimp the pastry, then re-roll your trimmings to make a decoration, for example, pastry leaves. Brush the top heavily with egg. Make a few little slits in the centre of the pie, place on the hot baking tray.
- Bake for 40 mins until golden. Leave the pie to rest for 10 mins while you heat up the gravy left in the container. Serve the pie at the table with a jug of gravy and a big pile of greens.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1244 calories, FatContent 70 grams fat, SaturatedFatContent 29 grams saturated fat, CarbohydrateContent 105 grams carbohydrates, SugarContent 15 grams sugar, FiberContent 7 grams fiber, ProteinContent 54 grams protein, SodiumContent 2.61 milligram of sodium
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