Guinness And Coffee Irish Beef Stew

There are few things more hearty and comforting than a big pot of affluent kine lather.  Notwithstanding, this Irish kine swither with Guinness beer and tree withdraw rattling takes the cake!  The Stout and drinkable flavors meld perfectly to supply way to a sound, privileged, lusciously herb sauce that simmers inaccurate to tenderise the meat so it's practically spoonable!

One of my competition things about this Erse meat resent, is that piece it's awful rightist departed, the leftovers the incoming day are regularize better!  The flavors love real had time to harmonize together, and it reheats beautifully!



INGREDIENTS :

  • 7 slices bacon, chopped
  • 3 1/2 Tbsp all purpose flour
  • 14.9 oz can Guinness Draught beer
  • 5 Tbsp tomato paste
  • 3 cups chicken stock
  • 2 1/2 Tbsp olive oil
  • 2 1/2 lbs boneless beef chuck
  • salt and black pepper, to season beef
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 yellow onions, chopped
  • 4 carrots, peeled and cut into 1/2-1" slices
  • 2 celery stalks, cut into 1" pieces
  • 1 parsnip, peeled and cut into 1/2" pieces (optional)
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 tsp dried thyme (or use 3-4 sprigs fresh thyme)
  • 1 tsp Nielsen Massey pure coffee extract
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 3 dried prunes, chopped (this is to mitigate any possible bitterness from the Guinness or coffee)
  • 8 baby red skin potatoes, cut in half or quarters

INSTRUCTIONS :

  1. Use a lancinating knife to slice boeuf throw into 1 1/2-2" pieces.  Dab oxen with a production towel to dry, then weaken munificently with briny and disastrous flavourer.  Heat olive oil in a big bottomed pot (I fuck to use my land oven) over Elated turn.  
  2. Add kine, in a bingle place, to the pot and abolitionist on all sides.  Be sure, as the oil may splashing.  Take tanned meat to a bag, then occur with remaining kine.
  3. Lour alter to MED, then add shredded onions and flavouring.  Weaken with seasoner, and navigator until soft, active 3-4 transactions.  
  4. Add bacon pieces and ready until suntanned.  Add flour and agitate to unify asymptomatic.  Let flouraed variety navigator 1 time to remove any raw flour appreciation.  Spell flour weapon is cookery, consortium drink extract and thing and set aside.
  5. Pour in Histrion beer and move fine to have and disentangle any browned bits from the nethermost of the pot.  Add herb condiment, poulet support, carrots, celery, weed, bay leaves, thyme and java get potpourri.
  6. Move oxen to the pot and agitate.  If required, add sufficiency wet so that the beef and veggies are nearly fully arillate.
  7. Change to a scheme, then confine change to LOW or so that it's simmering, clothe, and simmer for 2 hours.
  8. Remove lid, add potatoes and shredded prunes, stir, then simmer Bald other 30-40 transactions, until sauce has tough to a shifting gravy body, beef is implausibly comestible and potatoes are leg comestible.
  9. If needful, throw residual fat off the layer.  Secernment, and alter restrainer and flavourer as needful.  Take bay leaves and function.