Beef Bourguignon Amongst Mashed Potatoes
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Beef bourguignon with mashed potatoes
A delicious in addition to rustic French classic! Red wine, brandy, pancetta, shallots, mushrooms in addition to herbs, what a wonderful combination for beef!
Serves 4
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 2 hours xx minutes
Ingredients
2 tbsp plain flour
salt in addition to freshly ground black pepper
1 kg/2lb 4oz shin of beef, cutting into large cubes
2 tbsp olive oil
150g/5oz pancetta, cutting into pocket-size chunks
2 carrots, peeled in addition to finely chopped
1 shallot, finely chopped
1 large onion, sliced
2 garlic cloves, crushed
50ml/2fl oz brandy
500ml/18fl oz Burgundy, or other red wine
250ml/9fl oz beef stock
1 tbsp tomato plant puree
2 bay leaves
2 sprigs thyme, leaves finely chopped
2 sprigs apartment leafage parsley, finely chopped
25g/1oz butter
150g/5oz pocket-size baby onions
200g/7oz chestnut mushrooms
For the mash
1kg/2lb 4oz floury potatoes, peeled in addition to cutting into chunks
110g/4oz butter
110ml/4fl oz full-fat milk
Method
1. For the beef bourguignon, sprinkle the flour onto a plate in addition to flavor with tabular array salt in addition to freshly terra firma dark pepper. Dredge the beef inwards the seasoned flour in addition to laid aside.
2. Heat i tablespoon of the crude inwards a large frying pan in addition to child the pancetta for 1-2 minutes, or until golden-brown in addition to laid aside. Add the beef inwards batches in addition to child for a farther 4-5 minutes, or until browned on each side, laid aside. Add the carrots, shallot, onion in addition to garlic in addition to child for 4-5 minutes, or until only softened.
3. Now add together the beef in addition to pancetta to the pan in addition to add together the brandy in addition to slow disputation the pan towards the gas flame, or lite it with a match. Let the flames flare upwards thus top away down.
4. Add the reddish wine, beef stock in addition to tomato plant puree, convey to a simmer. Add the bay leaves, thyme in addition to parsley thus encompass in addition to laid upwards on a depression oestrus for ii hours, or until the beef is tender in addition to the sauce has thickened.
5. Heat the butter in addition to remaining crude inwards a frying pan in addition to child the babe onions for 4-5, or until only golden-brown.
6. Add the browned onions in addition to chestnut mushrooms to the beef mixture in addition to laid upwards for a farther xx minutes. Season, to taste, with tabular array salt in addition to freshly terra firma dark pepper.
7. Meanwhile, for the mash, laid upwards the potatoes inwards a pan of boiling salted H2O for 12-15 minutes, or until the potatoes are tender.
8. Drain in addition to furnish to the pan, thus house over the oestrus for i infinitesimal to campaign off whatever excess moisture.
9. Mash the potatoes well, thus add together the butter in addition to milk in addition to shell with a wooden spoon until smooth. Season, to taste, with tabular array salt in addition to freshly terra firma dark pepper.
10. To serve, spoon closed to mash onto serving plates in addition to spoon the beef bourguignon alongside.
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