The Simplest Beef Stew

I had to post this recipe straight away to keep the balance between veganism and meat-eating 😉 The previous recipe, surely long-awaited (I hadn’t written anything for about a month), featured the most vegan of vegan soups. And here’s some beef to even things out.

As everyone, especially vegetarians, knows, beef is the queen of meats.

Well, if not for everyone, then at least for me. Perfect meat that, properly prepared, needs very little seasoning and still always tastes sensational.

That’s exactly the case with this recipe. The simplest beef stew: really just 4 ingredients. Meat, pepper, salt and onions. A long cooking time produces something so unbelievably good you can hardly restrain yourself. So there’s no point going on about it: let’s get to work. Off to the shops for meat, some onions and… patience. A proper beef stew demands 3 hours of patience 🙂 Highly recommended.

At a glance:

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 3 hours

Serves: 2 people

How many calories: cheerfully beefily calorific

Ingredients for a very simple beef stew:

• 300 grams of beef eye of round
• 4 fairly large red onions
• 1 wine glass of dry red wine
• ground black pepper
• salt
• olive oil

How to make red lentil soup:

I washed the beef thoroughly and cut it into small pieces. I salted it lightly.

I heated olive oil in a saucepan and browned the meat. After about 10 minutes of frying, stirring almost constantly, I added the finely chopped red onions and fried for another 10 minutes or so, still stirring. I added pepper and poured in a wine glass of dry red wine. I turned down the “heat” so the beef simmered slowly in the wine.

Once the wine had evaporated, I started adding water and stirring. And so it went for 3 hours over very low “heat”. When the dish is ready, the beef should be perfectly soft and tender without falling apart, while the onions should have practically disintegrated, creating a delicious sauce.

Perfect served with cooked groats and a pickled cucumber. Although I served mine with a salad of tomato, cucumber and lettuce. Tasty that way too 🙂 So the simplest beef stew is ready. Enjoy!