Ingredients used for brown beef stew

This recipe is comes under stew recipes

• 400 g of prepared stewing beef
• 25 g of dripping or oil
• 75 g of onions
• 75 g of carrots
• 25 g of flour or whole meal
• 1 tablespoon of tomato puree
• 750 ml of brown stock, bouquet garni clove of garlic

Steps cook brown beef stew

• Remove excess sinew and fat from the beef
• Cut beef pieces into the length of 2cm
• Fry beef quickly in hot till the fat gets lightly browned
• Add the roughly cut onion and carrot and continue frying to a golden colour.
• Add the flour and mix in and singe in the oven or brown on top of the stove for few minutes
• Add tomato puree and stir in with a wooden spoon
• Mix in the stock, brings to the boil and skim
• Add the bouquet garni and garlic; season and cover with a lid and simmer gently till cooked, preferably in the oven, approximately one and half hours – 2 hours
• When cooked place the meat into a clean pan
• Correct the sauce and pass on to the meat
• Serve with chopped parsley sprinkled on top of the meat

One portion of the beef stew provides

• 216 kcals/907 kJ
• 11.0 g fat of which 2.9 g saturated
• 7.7 g carbohydrate of which 2.5 g sugar
• 21.9 g protein
• 1.0 g fibre