Thread: PAG's Beef Bourguignon

M'Sahib shopping the other day, brought back some beef (I think she thought it was steak, but being a pescatarian she's no expert). Anyway, all this talk about stews recently made me think about another Burgundy beef. Again, she was out doing a small shop yesterday, and I asked her to get a cheap bottle of red wine, if it was Pinot Noir that would be great. She forgot about the cheap, and got a reasonable Pinot Noir, albeit Chilean, not French.



The beef was diced up into large chunks, some bay leaves and sprigs of thyme added, then soaked in the whole bottle of wine, covered and put in the fridge overnight.





Everything else needed prepared this morning. Chopped onions and mushrooms, carrots, and peeled small shallots.



After straining the meat and herbs from the wine, keeping the wine in a jug, patted the chunks of meat dry and browned in batches in a frying pan.



Once the meat was all browned, put a drop of wine in the frying pan to deglaze the carbonised bits off the bottom.

Next was frying chopped onion and carrot in a casserole pan for about 10 minutes.



A couple of spoons of flour, and one of tomato puree was mixed in and cooked for a few minutes.



Then the beef and herbs, and the wine from the frying pan was added.



The rest of the wine added, brought to the boil, then lid on and in the oven for 2 hours.



When nearly ready, in some butter, fried for about 10 minutes the pork belly lardons until they'd turned crispy, and the shallots until they turned a pale colour.



Then the mushrooms added for a further 5 minutes.



This then mixed with the beef, and simmered for a further 10 minutes, and she's done.



Normally, mashed potato is enough with this dish, but thought I'd add some peas to get Mendy excited (it was his birthday the other day).

Looks delicious. Adding the pork fat was a surprise, but oooh, so much flavor.

PAG once again you have posted up some amazing food and top-notch pics.

Originally Posted by bsnub

PAG once again you have posted up some amazing food and top-notch pics.

yep I wish he had a bistro next door.

Well don PAG our galloping gourmet

Looks very good