This traditional French recipe from the Burgundy region is an excellent comfort food and extremely delicious.

Beef Bourguignon
18 September 2018
Category
Main
Serves
4
Preperation Time
30 minutes
Cooking Time
3.5 hours
Ingredients
1 bottle fruity French red wine
2 bay leaves
2 cloves garlic
chopped or crushed
2 tbs light olive or vegetable oil
150g unsmoked bacon lardoons
3 carrots
peeled and cut into chunks
12 pearl onions or small shallots
peeled
200g button mushrooms
1 small onion
peeled and thickly sliced
1.2kg braising steak or chuck steak
cut into large chunks
1-2 tbs plain flour
1 quality beef stock cube in 100ml boiling water
black pepper
handful fresh parsley
chopped
few sprigs fresh thyme
Instructions
1Preheat the oven to 140ºC fan/160ºC conventional/Gas 3
2Pour the wine into your Circulon large saucepan and add the bay leaves and garlic. Bring to a gentle simmer for 30 minutes until reduced by almost half
3Heat 1tbs of the oil in your Circulon non-stick Stockpot or Casserole and fry the bacon for a few minutes until golden then lift out and set aside, leaving the fat in the pan
4Add the carrots, pearl onions and mushrooms to the pan and fry for 5 minutes until golden. Tip into a bowl and set aside
5Fry the sliced onion for 3-4 minutes until golden then lift out and set aside on a separate plate
6Place the beef into a bowl and sprinkle over the flour then toss to coat all the pieces evenly. Add the rest of the oil to the casserole and fry the beef in batches until just sealed and browned all over
7Add back the sliced onions then pour over the reduced wine and the beef stock. Add the thyme, season with black pepper and place on the lid. Cook in the oven for 2½ hours, stirring occasionally until the meat is very tender
8Remove the lid and add the carrots, pearl onions and mushrooms then return to the oven, uncovered for half an hour
9Add the cooked bacon lardons and heat for a further 5 minutes then sprinkle over the parsley before serving