Beer-Baked Irish Beef

An easy stew you can prep and let simmer for a few hours. Easy to prep the night before and toss in the slow cooker when you get home, for a good down-home meal. Serve with hot boiled potatoes. I have also cut potatoes into cubes and put them right in the slow cooker to save time and dishes. Works great!

Step: 1

Place the bacon in a large nonstick skillet, and cook over medium heat until crisp and brown. Remove the bacon pieces and set aside, leaving the drippings in the skillet.

Step: 2

Place the flour, salt, black pepper, and allspice in a large plastic zipper bag, and shake a few times to combine. Place the beef stew meat into the bag, and shake to coat the meat with flour mixture. Place the meat pieces in the skillet with the bacon drippings, and cook the meat until brown on all sides.

Step: 3

Remove the browned meat to a slow cooker, and add the carrots, onions, garlic, parsley, rosemary, marjoram, and bay leaf to the cooker.

Step: 4

Pour the beer into the skillet, and bring to a boil over medium-low heat, scraping all the browned bits of flavor from the bottom of the skillet. Pour the beer into the slow cooker, over the meat and vegetables. Cover, and cook on Medium setting until the meat is very tender, 4 to 5 hours.

Step: 5

Before serving, remove the bay leaf, and sprinkle the stew with the reserved bacon pieces.

Per Serving: 576 calories; protein 36.4g; carbohydrates 19.7g; fat 38.5g; cholesterol 123.3mg; sodium 728.6mg.

The word “stew” can refer to 2 time a dish and a make dishes method. Stewing makes slowly cooking chunks of meat, raw fruit or beans in a flavorful liquid . It’s same as to braising, instead it makes have a few notable differences. The meat is chopped into few of pieces but of being cooked whole , and the water based material all of it covers the contents in a stew as different to a braise’s halfway all of it . When meat or raw fruit are cooked using this method, the resulting dish is called stew.

Stew has a reputation for making a rib-sticking meal that comfortable you up on a freezing , winter day. It’s true ; a bowl of classic beef stew does have warming properties , but stew’s cozy factor more than a way beyond preserving you from the chill . It’s all about those soft and chunks of food and vegetables, swimming in a thick, ultra-rich gravy. The more they come together creates the ultimate comfort food, no matter the weather.