Beef and Guinness Stew

Irish

Beef and Guinness Stew

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Beef and Guinness Stew is Irish home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

150 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves
4

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Toss the beef with the flour, salt, and pepper.

  2. Heat the oil in a large pot and brown the beef in batches, about 6 minutes, then set aside.

  3. Cook the diced onion and carrot in the same pot until starting to soften, about 5 minutes.

  4. Return the beef to the pot, stir in the tomato paste, then pour in the stout and beef stock and add the bay leaf and thyme.

  5. Cover and simmer gently until the beef is almost tender, about 1 hour 30 minutes.

  6. Add the chunked potato and continue simmering until the potato and beef are tender, about 30 minutes more.

  7. Season with salt and pepper and serve hot.

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Serve it with

A Irish dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Beef and Guinness Stew, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Beef and Guinness Stew carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Beef and Guinness Stew
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten Yes Bacon and Egg Salad with Baby Potatoes
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
650 kcal
Protein
48 g
Carbs
44 g
Fat
31 g
Fiber
5 g
Sugar
5 g
Sodium
400 mg
Saturated fat
10 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Beef and Guinness Stew takes about 150 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.

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