Beef, Porcini and Onion Stew
"A Sunday dinner - it needs a good 3 hours to cook - so do it on a lazy day when you want family and comfort."
- Ready In:
- 3hrs 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 1⁄2 ounce dried porcini mushrooms
- 1⁄2 cup hot water
- 1⁄3 cup olive oil
- 3 lbs stewing beef, cut into 1 ½ inch pieces
- 2 beef bones with marrow (3/4 lb)
- 2 large onions, chopped
- 1 cup dry red wine
- 4 bay leaves
- 2 whole cloves
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 4 teaspoons tomato paste
- 4 cups chicken broth
- potato gnocchi
directions
- Pour ½ cup hot water over dried mushrooms in small bowl.
- Let stand for ½ an hour.
- Drain; reserving liquid.
- Strain liquid through a fine sieve lined with damp kitchen towel.
- Combine liquid and mushrooms.
- Heat oil in large Dutch oven over high heat.
- Add beef and bones in batches and brown well, turning frequently.
- Transfer beef and bones to large bowl with a slotted spoon.
- Add onions to pot.
- Reduce heat to medium and saute until transparent, about 10 minutes.
- Return beef and bones and any juices that have accumulated to pot.
- Add wine, bay leaves, cloves and salt.
- Boil until wine is reduced by half, about 10 minutes.
- Mix in tomato paste and mushrooms with their liquid.
- Simmer 5 minutes.
- Add chicken broth.
- Bring mixture to boil; reduce heat.
- Cover and simmer gently until meat is tender, stirring occasionally, about 2 hours.
- Uncover and simmer until sauce is thick and chunky, about 25 minutes longer.
- Remove cloves and bay leaves (can be prepared 1 day ahead to this point).
- Serve with potato gnocchi and a green salad.
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Reviews
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Delicious! I made some changes to this recipe, I omitted the marrow bones, also I increased the garlic to 3 tablespoons (one can never have enough garlic lol!) I sauteed the garlic with the onions along with a tablespoon of dried chili flakes and a jalapeno pepper. I plan on serving this on top of cooked rigatoni pasta, but the gnocchi sounds wonderful!, thanks Ev!...Kitten:)
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
