Prep Time: 30 minutes      Cook Time: 3 hours               Serving size: 6 persons

This fresh version of the classic French beef stew, usually prepared with red wine, is perfect for a summer dinner. I make it in summer, but now also in winter as its nourishing but not too heavy. The meat is marinated in white wine and herbs, then cooked over slow heat in a dutch oven. So delicious xx

Ingredients

Beef Marinade
✅ 2 cups dry white wine
✅ 2 tbsp of olive oil
✅ 4 branches of thyme
✅ 2 tsps ground coriander
✅ Sea salt and ground black pepper

Stew
✅ 1kg beef meat cut into medium
✅ 1 onion
✅ 150 gr smoked bacon
✅ 6 carrots sliced into 5 mm rounds
✅ 2 tbsp tomato paste
✅ 6 garlic cloves, chopped
✅ 3 cups chicken broth
✅ 1 tsp ground coriander
✅ Sea salt and ground black pepper

Directions

Marinade: 

1. Prepare the marinade for 3 to 12 hours before starting cooking the stew. 

2. Mix all the ingredients of the marinade in a big glass or plastic bowl. Add the pieces of meat and mix well until covered with the marinade, place a cover and rest in the fridge for 3 to 12 hours. (12 hours is best, though any longer and the wine will start to impact the structure of the meat)

Stew

3. Slice the onion and cut the bacon into small pieces. Slice the carrots and chop the garlic cloves into another dish. 

4. Take the beef cubes out of the marinade (keep the marinade for later).

5. Warm a Dutch oven over medium heat and quickly fry the beef pieces until each side is brown. Once the meat is brown on every side, take it out of the pot and set it aside. If there is any liquid remaining in the pot, increase the heat to make it evaporate. That way you keep the fragrance of the juice.

6. Reduce heat to medium and fry the onion and the bacon in the pot for a couple of minutes, then incorporate the carrots, the tomato paste, the garlic cloves, the white wine marinade, the chicken broth, and the beef cubes again.

7. Cover the Dutch oven and gently simmer over low heat for 3 hours.  

8. If the sauce needs reducing then remove the meat and carrots and simmer on high till you are happy with the consistency.

9. Serve with mashed sweet potato and steamed greens.

Enjoy xx