What is THE best beef stew recipe in your opinion?Lately I've been partial to the Belgian Carbonnade Flamande, an onion and beer stewed beef often served with fries. Irish stews with Guinnes has always been close to my heart...what else do you have in store /ck/?
>>21791145meat + broth + veg is the best stew recipe IMOif you are adhering to some specific list on ingredients you are doing it wronga stew is the ultimate gut feeling based cooking and can never truely go wrong so long as your instincts are decentattempting to over complicate it into some gourmet dish is a perversion of what stew is and you should be ashamed for it
>>21791152I disagree. The choice of vegetable can elevate or detract from the taste of the meat. The choice of braising liquid weights heavily on the ultimate flavor and consistency. The impact of spices on the final dish goes without saying. Even a rustic, milimalist type of stew has to rely on correct proportions and balance between quality ingredients.
>>21791145Chasseur.
>>21791152The opinion of a lazy piglet who sits down in front of a bowl of slop and buries their face into it.
>>21791145>Belgian Carbonnade Flamande,This. Best stew I've ever made.
For me? It's gotta be the humble Beef Bourguignon. Pour a whole bottle of wine in that bitch, it'll come out delicious.
>>21791235>Pour a whole bottle of wine in that bitch, it'll comeWhat me and your mother do behind closed doors is nobodies business.
>>21791145Start off chopping onion celery and carrot, or grating them, and fry it off and reserve. I normally mix some braising steak, shin and cheek, salt and pepper it and brown it off. Add some beef stock, bay leaves, thyme, add the veg back in and cook down for several hours. I may or may not add some larger pieces of carrot, some shallots or baby onions I have fried and some lumps of potatoes. Goes with how I am feeling at the time. It can have nothing extra added and works, it can have other things added and works, its that simple. Can be served with mash, fondant potatoes, chips or fries, dumplings. The choice is yours.
>>21791145barley is underrated. dont skimp on the barley
>>21791145Beef and beef stock.
>>21791235Had some leftover smoked brisket the other month, chucked it in the potjie halfway through a bourguignon slowcook - god it was delicious. Bit fucked off that people enjoyed that more than the brisket, but it is what it is.
>>21791152How exceptionally pretentious. Let me guess, your farts smell divine?
>>21792161Mine smell like chorizo and farts.
>>217912352 cups for the chef
>>21791145Why make beef stew when you could make a Cajun gumbo with sausage and seafood that has a vastly superior flavor?
>>21792220So beef stew with shrimps?
>>21791145Goulash.* 1:1 fatty and sinewy beef:onion (this is an excellent place to reuse trimmed parts)* 1 teaspoon tomato paste per kg of beef * 2 teaspoons cumin per kg of beef * 1 teaspoon of smoked paprika per kg of beef Use clarified butter to brown & render the beef. Take out the beef and reduce heat. Brown tomato paste. Add onion. Add cumin. Stir fry. You need the onion juices so don't have the heat too high. We're softening them not frying them. After 3 minutes add meat. Add enough water to just about cover. Add remaining spices. Simmer for 5-6 hours. Adjust salt
>>21792546>no veggiesstrictly inferior to west European beef stews. Needs sour cream to be even basely palatable.
