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Beef stew

Three hours of doing almost nothing, and then dinner.

Beef stew
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How to make beef stew

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The long one

210 minutes · serves 6 · Easy

What you need

  • 1kg beef shin or chuck, in large chunks
  • 2 onions
  • 3 carrots
  • 3 celery sticks
  • 3 tbsp flour
  • 500ml beef stock
  • 2 bay leaves
  • Oil

What you do

  1. 1Dry the beef properly and brown it hard in batches. Crowding the pan steams it, and you will not get the colour back later.
  2. 2Soften the vegetables in the same pot, scraping up what is stuck.
  3. 3Flour in, cooked out 2 minutes, then the stock added gradually.
  4. 4Beef back in with the bay. Lid on, 150C oven, 3 hours.
  5. 5It is ready when a spoon goes through a piece without resistance. Skim the fat off the top.

Pressure cooker

60 minutes · serves 6 · Easy

What you need

  • 1kg beef chuck
  • Onions, carrots, celery
  • Stock
  • Flour
  • Bay

What you do

  1. 1Brown the beef in the pot on sauté, then the vegetables.
  2. 2Flour, stock and bay in.
  3. 3High pressure 45 minutes, then let it come down on its own.