Recipe#6383

Title: Beer Beef Stew 02

Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 From: "Joel Plutchak" joel@bolt.atmos.uiuc.edu 
 Subject: Guinness Beef Stew 
 Message-ID: DoBG2K.CFC@taranto.com 
 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:51:56 GMT 

This is a variation of a basic Carbonade recipe common to many
 countries-- a simple beef stew made with beer. Whereas a Belgian
 version would call for a Flemish brown ale, this one is perfect
 for a St Patrick's Day dinner. The friend who gave me this recipe
 (Rob Demillo) likes to prepare the whole dish in a crock pot and
 slow-cook it at the lowest setting for 6 hours.
 Guinness Beef Stew
 1/4 lb  bacon
 2 lg onions, thinly sliced
 1 Tbsp granulated sugar
 1 cup flour
 1 Tbsp dried thyme
 1 tsp salt
 1/2 tsp black pepper, freshly ground
 3 lbs beef, in 1" cubes
 12 oz Guinness Extra Stout
 vegetable oil
 chopped fresh parsely (optional)
 Egg noodles or baking powder biscuits (optional)
 Coarsely dice the bacon and fry in a large skillet over medium heat
 until crisp. Remove bacon, leaving grease in pan. Lower heat, add
 onions to the bacon grease and saute until tender. Sprinkle the
 sugar over the onions, raise the heat to high, and stir until onions
 turn brown. Remove onions to strainer and let drip until bowl,
 collecting the drippings. Meanwhile, mix the flour, thyme, salt,
 and pepper, and coat the beef cubes with the mixture, discarding
 any remaining flour mixture. Add the collected onion drippings back
 to the skillet, raise heat to medium high, and brown the beef cubes
 on all sides in small batches, removing each batch to an oven
 casserole dish when browned. Add vegetable oil to the skillet as
 necessary. Once all the beef has been browned and removed, pour
 Guinness into pan, add bacon bits, and deglaze the skillet (heat
 and stir until all the brown bits come off the bottom of the pan).
 Add the onions to the beef in the casserole dish, pour the contents
 of the skillet into the casserole, and cover.
 Cook in a 325 degrees F oven for 1.5 hours or until beef is tender.
 Serve atop egg noodles or baking powder biscuits, garnished with
 parsley, with Guinness as the accompanying beverage.
 Serves 6-8.