Kitchen
Wizard
Cooking
Flemish stew
Number: 6 persons
Complexity: easy
Working time: 45 min
Total preparation: 4.5 hours
Ingredients
2 kg stew meat (e.g. beef steaks, rib steaks)
6 onions
4 cloves of garlic
salt pepper
flower
cooking olive oil
3 bay leaves
2 tsp dried thyme
5 cloves
½ tsp nutmeg
4 stock cubes
1 liter of water
2 bottles of Trappist beer of your choice (e.g. Grimbergen, La Trappe, St.Bernardus)
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Other supplies
No
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Mis en place
Peel and chop the onions and garlic. Cut the meat into pieces of 2 x 2 cm and place in a large plastic bag (I use a pedal bin bag).
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Preparation
Preheat the oven to 140 degrees.
Sprinkle with some salt and pepper and enough flour to coat all the meat well.
Take a large oven pan and add the beer, water, herbs and stock cubes and bring to the boil and reduce to low.
Heat some olive oil in a frying pan and fry the meat in parts until brown on all sides.
Place the browned meat in the oven pan with boiling liquid.
Then fry the onions for about 3 minutes and then add the garlic, fry for 1 minute and add it to the meat in the oven pan.
Bring everything to the boil, put the lid on the pan and place in the oven for 3.5 hours, so that everything can simmer and cook nice and slowly.
Remove the pan from the oven and give it a good stir and enjoy the wonderful smell.
Look for the bay leaves and cloves and remove them from the stew.
Delicious with (homemade) fries and (homemade yogurt) mayonnaise.
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KPJ/18Mar2018
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