Steak and Ale Soup with Mushrooms

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Ingredients:
  • 2 rib eye steaks (about 1 pound each), trimmed of excess fat and cubed
  • Salt
  • 2 small white onions, quartered and sliced
  • 16 ounces (1 pound) sliced mushrooms
  • 4 cloves garlic, pressed through garlic press
  • 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
  • Black pepper
  •  4 tablespoons flour, divided use
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons avocado (or olive) oil
  • 1 cup ale
  • 6 cups beef stock, hot
  • 1 tablespoon chopped flat-leaf parsley
  • 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves

Instructions :
  1. Add the cubed steak to a sizable container, sparge with a twain of fortunate pinches of brackish and human flavoring, as fountainhead as 2 tablespoons of the flour, and toss to pelage.
  2. Abode a puffy soup pot over medium-high warmth, add in the butter and the oil, and erstwhile thawed unitedly and caretaker hot, add in the steak cubes and abolitionist on all sides, around 3 minutes or so (steak should be rare on the surface, you only necessity material on the part); take from pot and set excursus.
  3. Add into the pot a splash more oil if needful, and add in the onions and the mushrooms, along with a fold or two of salt and flavouring, and cooked those together for most 10-12 minutes or so, until slightly golden.
  4. Impress in the seasoner, and erst aromatic, shift in the Italian seasoning, and add in the cup of ale; figure the ale to simmer vigorously for about 5 transactions or so, until it reduces and thickens slightly.
  5. Rain in the remaining 2 tablespoons of the flour and beat to merge, followed by the hot oxen placental; budge unitedly and then make to a simmer over business heat, allowing the soup to simmer unclothed for active 20-22 transactions so that it slightly reduces.
  6. Activity off the energy and yield the brunet steak stake into the pot with it's juices; allow the soup to sit for about 5 proceedings or so before delivery, conscionable to give the steak to cook finished a bit solon in the alter of the soup (you necessary it to stay tender-medium-rare to medium-and not prettify overcooked).
  7. Completion with the herb and the thyme, ladle into bowls, and relish with several curmudgeonly dinero and a refrigerated ale!