Beef Carbonnade

Name: Beef Carbonnade
Yield: Serves Four
Ingredients: sprig of thyme; 1 teaspoon wine vinegar or lemon juice; bunch of parsley; 1 bay leaf; salt and freshly ground black pepper; pinch of nutmeg; 2 slices bread spread with mustard; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 tablespoon beef dripping; 300 ml/½ pint Guinness or other brown stout; 3 onions, roughly sliced; 1 kg/2 lb chuck steak, cut into large chunks; 300 ml/½ pint Guinness or other brown stout; 1 clove garlic, crushed; 1 teaspoon wine vinegar or lemon juice; ½ tablespoon brown sugar; 1 tablespoon flour

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

About

Ingredients

1 tablespoon beef dripping
1 kg/2 lb chuck steak, cut into large c

Main course

Method

Melt the dripping in a heavy frying pan and fry the meat, 2 or 3 pieces at a time, until well browned all over. Put them into a flameproof casserole as they are done. If the pan becomes very dry and is in danger of burning add a little Guinness to it, swish the juices around, and tip them into the ca