Beef Stew (Boeuf Bourguignon)
Beef Stew (Boeuf Bourguignon)

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It's old fashioned comfort food at its finest. Heat the olive oil in a large Dutch oven. Dry the beef cubes with paper towels and then sprinkle them with salt and pepper.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have beef stew (boeuf bourguignon) using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Beef Stew (Boeuf Bourguignon):
  1. Get 12 slices hickory smoked bacon, chopped
  2. Make ready 3 lbs chuck beef cup into 1" cubes
  3. Take 1 lb carrots cubed
  4. Prepare 2 yellow onions chopped
  5. Get 5 cloves garlic, chopped
  6. Make ready 2 cups red wine
  7. Get 3 cups beef stock
  8. Take 2 tbsp tomato paste
  9. Prepare 1 tbsp thyme
  10. Take 4 tbsp butter
  11. Make ready 3 tbsp flour
  12. Prepare 1 lb pearl onions whole
  13. Get 1 lb mushrooms sliced thickly
  14. Prepare 3 bay leaves
  15. Take salt
  16. Get pepper
  17. Prepare parsley for garnish

In this case, Beef Bourguignon, literally translated as Burgundian Beef, is a very old French recipe that uses fatty beef cooked in red wine to create a stew that is either served warm or cold (as in a left-over, the following day). The red wine was typically a red Burgundy - a Pinot Noir or Gamy. Most good beef stews do have red wine in them. Tender fall apart chunks of beef simmered in a rich red wine gravy makes Julia Child's Beef Bourguignon an incredible family dinner.

Steps to make Beef Stew (Boeuf Bourguignon):
  1. Preheat the oven to 350F. Heat 2 TB oil in large Dutch oven (or heavy, oven-safe pot with tight fitting lid.) Add bacon and cook over medium until evenly and lightly browned throughout. Using a slotted spoon, remove bacon to a large plate. Remaining oil and grease should stay in the pot.
  2. Using paper towels, thoroughly dry uncooked beef and sprinkle the cubes evenly with a thin layer of kosher salt and fresh ground pepper. Reheat the oil/bacon grease in the Dutch oven and sear the beef cubes in a single layer, working in batches, until each cube is brown on all sides. Do not over crowd the pan, making sure to leave some space between each piece of beef. Add more oil as needed to finish browning. Set beef aside in plate with the bacon.
  3. If needed, add oil and heat oil. Add carrots, onions, garlic, kosher salt, black pepper and saute for 5 minutes until onions are lightly browned.
  4. Add beef and bacon back into Dutch oven with their juices. Add the wine and enough beef broth to almost cover all the meat. Add tomato paste, thyme, and bay leaves. Bring to simmer, stirring occasionally. Once liquid is reaches a simmer, cover the pot with tight fitting lid and place in oven for 1.5 to 2 hours, or until meat is very tender when pierced with fork.
  5. Meanwhile, mix together butter with flour in small bowl and set aside. Saute mushrooms with butter in skillet just until mushrooms start to become soft.
  6. Remove stew from oven. Add the butter/flour mixture, frozen pearl onions, and mushrooms to the stew. Bring to a boil on stovetop and immediately reduce to simmer. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Skim off any fat off the top. Remove bay leaves. Season with additional kosher salt and fresh pepper to taste.

Julia Child's Beef Bourguignon (Bœuf Bourgignon in French) is a world wide loved classic for a reason. Burgundy-Style Beef Stew (Boeuf Bourguignonne) With its brisk acidity, a good-quality pinot noir from France's Burgundy wine region marinates and tenderizes the meat and structures the flavor of. For the stew: Remove the beef from the marinade. Strain the veggies and bay leaves from the marinade and discard. Classic boeuf Bourguignon, the French beef stew made with red wine, mushrooms, pearl onions, and bacon, is arguably the world's greatest beef stew.

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