Five Hour Beef Stew With Red Wine Food

FIVE HOUR STEW

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).
• Combine the cubed chuck, carrots, onions, brown sugar, wine, tapioca, tomatoes, tomato sauce in a large baking dish. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Bake at 250 degrees F (120 degrees C) for 4 hours. Remove from oven and add stir in the potatoes, water chestnuts and mushrooms.
• Raise oven temperature to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 1 more hour.

RED WINE BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325°F.
• Season the meat with salt and pepper, place in a large bowl, and toss with the flour.
• Heat the oil in a large Dutch oven or wide-bottomed pot with a tight-fitting lid over medium-high heat. Cook the meat, in batches, until well browned on all sides, 6 to 8 minutes, transferring the pieces to a plate as they are browned. Pour off and discard any drippings from the pot.
• Add the tomato paste, wine, broth, onion, bay leaves, thyme, and 2 of the carrots and bring to a boil. Return the meat and any juices back to the pot (the meat should be barely submerged in liquid), cover, and transfer to the oven. Cook for 2 hours.
• Using tongs, remove and discard the cooked vegetables. Add the potatoes and the remaining 8 carrots to the pot, cover, and return to the oven. Cook until the meat and vegetables are fork-tender, about 1 hour more.

OVEN 5 HOUR BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Combine all above ingredients into a large baking dish; cover with aluminum foil.
• Bake for 5 hours at 250 degrees-- NO PEEKING!

FIVE HOUR BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Mix ingredients well in dutch oven and cover.
• Bake at 300 degrees for five hours.
• Do not peek.
• (I confess I do peek at about four hours to see if it's tender and thick enough!).

HEARTY BEEF STEW WITH RED WINE

Steps:

• Combine flour and pepper; coat beef cubes.
• Reserve remaining flour mixture. In 3 tablespoons of hot oil, brown beef, and remove when brown.
• Sauté onion, celery and garlic until tender.
• Return beef to pan.
• Add beef, broth, wine and spices.
• Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally.
• Reduce to simmer, cover and continue cooking for 1-3/4 hours.
• Add remaining vegetables and cook covered another 45 minutes longer or until meat and vegetables are tender, but not mushy.
• Thicken broth if necessary with 2 tablespoons of the flour mixed with 2 tablespoons water.
• Simmer until thick.

DELICIOUS BEEF STEW WITH RED WINE AND HOISIN

Steps:

• Pat beef dry with paper towel.
• Season beef with salt and pepper.
• In a Dutch oven, heat the oil over med-high heat.
• Brown meat on all sides in batches, adding more oil as needed.
• Transfer to a bowl.
• In the same pot with remaining fat, saute the onions and garlic until tender.
• Add red wine; bring to a boil, while scraping any browned bits stuck to the bottom.
• Stir in beef broth and Hoisin; bring to a boil.
• Return the beef to the pot, bring to a simmer, cook for 1-1/2 hours, or until beef is tender.
• Stir in the carrots, parsnips and sweet potatoes; cook, uncovered fot 15-20 minutes, or until veggies are tender.

ONE HOUR BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Roughly chop garlic, onion and celery and then chop in a food processor; cut beef into small, 3/4 inch cubes or cut into strips, the size of index finger; heat oil in a Dutch oven and saute beef until browned.
• Add chopped vegetables from food processor, tomato paste, thyme, bay leaf, parsley, salt and pepper; stir well to mix; add stock and wine and bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 45 minutes.
• While meat is simmering, boil carrots and potatoes until tender-crisp, 5-10 minutes; drain and add to stew; add peas; the entire cooking time for the stew is 45 minutes; if stew is too thin, dissolve starch in 1 T cold water and whisk into stew; simmer 2-3 minutes and serve.

FIVE HOUR BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Mix--Cover tightly--Bake at 275* for 5 hours.
• Don't lift lid while it's cooking.