Slow-Cooked Beef Stew with Bay & Thyme

Name: Slow-Cooked Beef Stew with Bay & Thyme
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 3 Bay leaves; 4 Thyme sprigs; 3 Carrots, chunked; 2 Celery sticks, sliced; 1 kg Stewing beef, cubed; 2 Onions, chopped; 2 tbsp Plain flour; 600 ml Beef stock; 2 tbsp Oil

3 hr · serves 6

Crops from your garden in this recipe: 🍃 Bay 🌿 Thyme 🥕 Carrot 🥬 Celery

Ingredients

3 Bay leaves (grown in the garden)
4 Thyme sprigs (grown in the garden)
3 Carrots, chunked (grown in the garden)
2 Celery sticks, sliced (grown in the garden)
1 kg Stewing beef, cubed
2 Onions, chopped (grown in the garden)
2 tbsp Plain flour
600 ml Beef stock
2 tbsp Oil

Green items are crops you can grow yourself.

Method

Heat the oven to 150C (130C fan). Toss the beef in the flour and brown in batches in the hot oil in a casserole.
Soften the onions, carrots and celery in the same pot for 5 minutes.
Return the beef, add the stock, bay and thyme and bring to a simmer.
Cover and cook in the oven for 2 hr 30 min until the beef is meltingly tender.
Remove the bay and thyme stalks, season and serve with mash.