Tuscan Braised Beef Stew Alongside Mashed Potatoes | Comforting Dinner Ideas

On Sundays, I honey to convey something cooking all solar daytime inwards the kitchen - peculiarly inwards the Fall together with Winter months.  There is something together with thence comforting nearly a large pot simmering on the stove or braising inwards the oven all solar daytime long.  As presently every bit the cool mornings hit, I can't expect to teach into the kitchen together with throw to a greater extent than or less beef, wine, garlic together with herbs into a pot.

This braised beef recipe was derived from my "Tuscan Short Ribs" recipe, merely uses Beef Stew Meat instead.  You tin displace easily notice Stew Meat at the grocery shop - it is commonly the trimmings of roasts together with steaks that were leftover when cutting the large pieces.  At nearly $5 a pound, it is a pocket together with commonly real high lineament together with lean.  I notice that if I gear upward it for at to the lowest degree iv hours, it ever breaks downward into real tender, shredding beef that is perfect for stews together with pasta.

The "Tuscan" business office of this recipe is the rosemary, vino together with olives that actually perfume the beef stock every bit it cooks.  I similar to serve it over chive mashed potatoes or amongst actually crusty breadstuff that has been toasted together with rubbed amongst a garlic clove.

For these types of recipes, I role my Staub dutch oven (that I featured inwards my USA Today Modern Woman Fall Entertaining article), merely y'all tin displace likewise role a crock pot for the all solar daytime simmering or sauce pan amongst a lid that tin displace teach from stove exceed to oven. 

Tuscan Braised Beef Stew 
with Mashed Potatoes

ii tablespoons of olive oil
ii teaspoons of bounding main salt
1 teaspoon of pepper

1/4 xanthous onion, quartered
ii pounds of Beef Stew Meat
ii cups of cerise wine
iv cups of beef broth
1 loving cup of whole light-green olives, halved
vi cloves of garlic, fossil oil mince
ii sprigs of rosemary
1 loving cup of mushrooms, halved
iv sprigs of thyme
iv carrots, medium dice
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mashed potatoes
and/or french breadstuff

Heat oven to 250 degrees.

Season beef amongst tabular array salt together with pepper. In a large dutch oven, sear stew meat together with onions on high heat, for 2-3 minutes.  Add garlic together with gear upward for thirty to a greater extent than seconds.  Add cerise wine, broth, olives, rosemary, mushrooms together with thyme.  Remove from heat, comprehend together with seat it into the oven. 

Slow gear upward inwards the oven at 250 degrees for at to the lowest degree 4, merely upward to 6-8 hours. 

Remove the stew from the oven when the meat is tender together with shredding.  Remove the herb stems.  Add carrots to the pot together with gear upward on the stove exceed for twenty minutes until the carrots are tender.  Serve amongst mashed potatoes together with french bread.

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