Slow Cooker Beef Bourguignon
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • 500g stewing beef cut into bite sized pieces/chunks
  • 2 onions
  • 40g plain flour
  • 200g button mushrooms, quartered
  • 200ml good quality red wine
  • beef oxo cube
  • beef stock pot
  • 250ml boiling water
  • 6 rashers bacon (I used smoked but use non smoked if you prefer)
  • 1 garlic clove – peeled and crushed
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 sprig of fresh thyme
  • 5g chopped parsley
  • 1 bouquet garni
  • 1 leek, sliced
  • Pinch of ground black pepper
Instructions
  1. coat the beef in the flour
  2. in a pan, add a little oil and brown the beef for a couple of minutes and then add the garlic, bacon and onions
  3. After a couple of minutes add the tomato puree, wine, oxo, water and stock pot and herbs and bring to the boil
  4. Then put into your slow cooker along with the mushrooms and cook on either:
  5. slow for 8 hours
  6. medium for 6 hours
  7. high for 4 hours
  8. Once cooked serve with your choice of potato and vegetables
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2014/10/slow-cooker-beef-bourguignon-2.html