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Slow-cooked beef with red wine and onions

  • Hands-on time: 15 mins
  • Time to make: 8 hrs 15 mins
  • Serving: 6 people
Ratings: 3.8
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
  • 900g piece chuck steak or bolar beef, fat trimmed
  • 2 carrots, chopped
  • 2 stalks celery chopped
  • 3 cloves garlic chopped
  • 2 sprigs fresh thyme
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 cup (100g) caramelised onion or ¼ cup (75g) onion marmalade
  • 1 cup red wine
  • 1 cup salt-reduced liquid beef stock or water
  • 2 tablespoons cornflour (optional)
  • 4 cups baby spinach
  • 4 cups mashed-with-skin-on potatoes, to serve
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Turn slow cooker on to low. Heat oil in a frying pan and brown beef.

    2 Place all the remaining ingredients except cornflour and spinach in slow cooker with meat.

    3 Cover with lid and cook for 7-8 hours until beef is tender. If possible, turn beef over half-way through so that beef is totally covered with liquid.

    4 If casserole needs thickening, in the final moments take a little sauce from dish, mix with cornflour to form a paste then stir paste into slow cooker mixture.

    5 Use a carving knife and fork to break beef in chunks.

    6 Fold spinach through beef casserole and when just wilted serve with mashed potatoes.

    Variations

    Make it gluten free: Check onion jam, stock and cornflour are gluten free.

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