🇧🇪 Carbonnade à la Flamande | Traditional Belgium BEEF STEW - FLEMISH. Recipe by Always Yummy!

beer

🥗Healthier: non-alcoholic beer

💰Cheaper: beef broth

Non-alcoholic beer provides similar flavor without alcohol.

beef

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: pork

Chicken is leaner, while pork can be more economical.

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil offers healthier fats, while margarine is often less expensive.

brown sugar

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: white sugar

Honey adds a unique flavor, while white sugar is often cheaper.

Cut the beef and bread into average pieces, chop up the bulb onion.

Heat a pan with the vegetable oil and fry the meat on all sides, in small portions, over high heat until golden brown for 3-4 minutes and take out into a bowl.

In the same pan fry the bulb onion until caramel over high heat for 2-3 minutes.

Add the sliced bacon and fry for another 2 minutes.

Lay out the fried bulb onion and bacon into a saucepan, add the sugar and stir, add the mustard, salt, pepper, cloves, cinnamon, thyme, bay leaves, fried meat and beer, stir and bring to a boil.

Add the cut flavored bread into the saucepan and stir.

Cook with no lid over medium heat for 10 minutes to have alcoholic fumes evaporated.

Cover the saucepan with a lid and braise for 3 hours over lowest heat stirring occasionally.

Serve your Flemish ragout hot. Sprinkle with the chopped up parsley greens when serving.

Cooking Techniques

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