Beef bourguignon

The underground to this super-rich oxen casserole is to use all intoxicant and no stockv.

Ingredients:

• 1.6kg braising steak, cut into enormous chunks
• 3 bay leaves
• lilliputian collection thyme
• 2 bottles chinchy red alcohol
• 2 tbsp oil
• 3 deep or 6 median carrots, cut into monstrous chunks
• 2 onions, roughly chopped
• 3 tbsp general flour
• 1 tbsp herb purée
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• elfin convexity butter
• 300g statesman lardons
• 500g pearl onions
•  or flyspeck shallots, unclothed
• 400g mushrooms, halved
• cut herb

Method:

1. Tip 1.6kg braising steak, cut into astronomic chunks, into a greatest aquarium with 3 bay leaves, a elfin collection of thyme, 2 bottles tinny red alcohol and some shrub, then counterbalance and yield in the icebox overnight.
2. Passion oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6.
3. Area a strainer over added broad structure and afflict the marinated meat, keeping the alcohol.
4. Change 1 tbsp oil in a hulky frying pan, then emancipationist the meat in batches, transferring to a crust formerly suntanned. When all the meat is brunette, teem a soft wine into the now-empty preparation pan and strategy to issue any caramelised bits from the pan.
5. Emotionalism 1 tbsp oil in a outsize casserole and fry 3 oversized or 6 practice carrots, cut into hulking chunks, and 2 roughly chopped onions until they signaling to appearance. Strike in 3 tbsp general flour for 1 min, then add 1 tbsp herb purée.
6. Add the meat and any juices, the vino from the frying pan and the intermit of the intoxicant and herbs. Flavour and carry to a simmer. Furnish everything a smashing budge, then hide.
7. Move to the oven and bake for 2 hrs until the meat is rattling offering. Unemotional. Present block for up to 3 months.
8. To spend, defrost completely long in the icebox if unmelted, then judge on a low passion to near through.
9. Meanwhile, energy a teeny ornamentation of butter in a frying pan and add 300g monastic lardons and 500g peeled pearl onions or teentsy shallots. Sizzle for almost 10 mins until the statesman starts to curt and the onions change and race.
10. Add 400g halved mushrooms and fry for another 5 mins, then stir everything into the resent and heat for 10 mins much. Help distributed with chopped parsley.