Recipe: Delicious Guinness Stout Beef Stew

Guinness Stout Beef Stew.

To cook Guinness Stout Beef Stew you need 14 ingredients and just 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients

1. Prepare of beef chuck (fattier mix).
2. Prepare of carrots.
3. It's of potatoes.
4. You need of celery.
5. Prepare of Guinness beer.
6. It's of chicken stock.
7. Prepare of thyme.
8. It's of bay leaves.
9. Prepare of sugar.
10. You need of bacon (cut into small pcs).
11. You need of Spam (cut into small pcs).
12. It's of whole onions.
13. Prepare of tomato paste.
14. It's of garlic.

Guinness Stout Beef Stew instructions

1. Render fat from bits of bacon and spam, till brown and crisp. Transfer to pot and leave 1 tbsp of grease in pan. (Medium High Heat).
2. Use pan to brown beef cubes (tossed in salt & pepper) in high heat and transfer beef to pot.
3. Turn heat to medium and sweat onions (with salt) for 5 mins then add in minced garlic and cook for 1 min, careful not to brown. Then deglaze with 1 can of Guinness Stout Beer and cook for 2 -3 mins on medium heat..
4. Transfer to pot, add tomato paste, thyme, freshly ground black pepper, carrots, bayleaf, celery & lastly, chicken stock to cover top of all the ingredients. Rise heat to high till simmering then reduce to low heat..
5. Simmer stew gently for 2 hours. Option to add in potatoes later to avoid turning mushy & cayenne powder for taste.