🍺🍺 Irish Beef and Guinness Stew 🍺🍺. And Irish Beef and Guinness Stew might be the king of them all! Guinness Beer gives the sauce an incredible rich, deep flavour, and the beef is fall-apart tender. While it takes time to slow cook, this is very straight forward to make.
Variations of beef stew are found around the world and a few famous examples include France's Boeuf Bourgignon, Hungary's Goulash, and Belgium's Carbonnade à la Flamande (recipe to come).
The first one is simmered in wine, the second generously seasoned with paprika, and the third simmered in beer.
But when used for cooking, Guinness stout beer helps tenderize the beef and also gives a rich, malty flavor to this chunky Irish stew.
You can cook 🍺🍺 Irish Beef and Guinness Stew 🍺🍺 using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of 🍺🍺 Irish Beef and Guinness Stew 🍺🍺
- You need 1 kg of beef stew meat (beef chuck) - sapi sengkel.
- It's 2 tbsp of olive oil.
- It's 3/4 tsp of salt and black pepper.
- Prepare 3 of garlic cloves, minced.
- Prepare 2 of yellow onions, chopped.
- It's 180 gram of bacon, diced (optional).
- Prepare 550 ml of Guinness Beer 🍺.
- It's 4 tbsp of tomato paste.
- It's 1 litre of chicken stock (me:store bought).
- You need 3 of big carrots.
- It's 4 of large celery stalks.
- It's 2 of bayleaves.
- Prepare 1 tsp of dried thyme.
- You need 2 tbsp of corn flour, dissolve with bit of water.
It is also flavored with onions, carrots, garlic, and thyme. The stew can be made on the stovetop or in the oven. This recipe can be found in "The Complete Book of Irish Country Cooking" by Darina Allen. This stew has a great flavor, don't be afraid to use Guiness.
🍺🍺 Irish Beef and Guinness Stew 🍺🍺 step by step
- Cut the beef into bite size (about 5 cm. Pat dry and sprinkle with salt and black pepper.
- Heat oil in a heavy based pot over high heat. Add beef in batches and brown well all over. Remove onto plate. Repeat with remaining beef..
- Lower heat to medium. If the pot is looking dry, add oil. Cook garlic and onion for 3 minutes until softening, then add bacon (if u use bacon). Cook until onion soften and become translucent.
- Add Guinness, chicken broth/stock and tomato paste 🍅. Mix well, add bay leaves and thyme..
- Return beef into the pot (including any juices). Liquid level should cover the beef. Cook in pressure cooker for 45 minites.
- Once the meat is tender, open the pressure cooker, add the carrot and celery to the pot and cook for another 15 minutes until the veggies are tender 🥕🥕. Thickened with corn flour and cook a while more until the stew is boiling..
- Serve with steamed sweet potatoes,/creamy mash potatoes or toasted bread. Being an Asian, my kids like to have this stew with rice..
- Enjoy! 🍛🤤.
It will not be bitter, even if you omit the sugar like I did. Google Beef Stew and you will come up with hundreds of recipes with just as many variations. A true classic IRISH Beef stew however requires one essential ingredient … Guinness stout beer. As the beer cooks down and evaporates it is also tenderizing the beef. Irish Guinness Beef Stew is a traditional Irish pub food made with chuck roast, potatoes, vegetables, and a warm broth flavored with Guinness beer.