Guinness® Irish Stew recipe

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Ingredients

4 pounds boneless beef chuck roast, cut into 11/2-inch cubes
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
¼ cup all-purpose flour
2 pinches salt and ground black pepper, or to taste
2 pinches cayenne pepper
¼ cup vegetable oil
2 yellow onions, chopped
4 cloves garlic, crushed
¼ cup tomato paste
1 teaspoon water, or as needed
3 cups Irish stout beer (such as Guinness®), divided
2 sprigs fresh thyme
4 large potatoes, chopped
2 cups chopped carrot
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

Nutrition Info

526.5 calories
carbohydrate: 37.2 g
cholesterol: 82.5 mg
fat: 28.4 g
fiber: 4.8 g
protein: 25.8 g
saturatedFat: 9.3 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 133.4 mg
sugar: 4.2 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Toss beef cubes with 2 tablespoons vegetable oil in a bowl.

  2. Whisk flour, salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper in a separate bowl. Dredge beef cubes through flour mixture until evenly coated.

  3. Heat 1/4 cup vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat, cook and stir coated beef cubes, working in batches, until beef is browned on all sides, 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer browned beef to a Dutch oven or heavy-bottomed pot.

  4. Cook and stir onions and garlic in the same skillet used for browning beef until lightly browned, 5 to 10 minutes.

  5. Stir tomato paste with enough water to partially dilute, pour into onion mixture. Stir to blend. Reduce heat to medium, cover Dutch oven, and simmer for 5 minutes.

  6. Pour half the Irish stout into the onion mixture, and bring to a boil while scraping the browned bits of food off of the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Transfer entire mixture to the browned beef. Pour remaining half of Irish stout into beef mixture, add thyme.

  7. Cover Dutch oven, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 2 hours. Add potatoes and carrots and simmer, stirring every 20 minutes, until potatoes are soft, about 1 hour. Adjust salt as needed, garnish with parsley.

Recipe Yield

10 servings

Recipe Note

With this wonderful cool weather arriving this recipe is a perfect hearty Irish comfort food. After cooking and enjoying the great flavors, it reminded me and brought back warm thoughts of the mutton stew I had in Dublin, Ireland last year! Irish stew, is traditionally made of lamb or mutton, potatoes, onions, and parsley. But I am using beef. Original Irish stew was a thick and hearty meal, meant to keep a body warm and on your feet for many hours of hard work.

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