Braised beef with carrots

Ingredients

6 servings

• 1 piece of chuck or stewing beef, 1kg
• 2 onions
• 1 slice of bacon, diced
• fat
• 1 small tin of tomato purée
• bay leaf
• thyme
• sage
• 1 beef stock cube
• pepper
• salt
• 2 garlic cloves
• 6 carrots

Steps

1. 1

   Cut the meat into equal pieces. Brown them in a cast-iron Dutch oven in which you have heated the fat.

2. 2

   Once the pieces are browned on all sides, remove them and sauté the sliced onions and bacon lardons.

3. 3

   Prepare the beef broth with 1/2 liter of water.

4. 4

   Add the meat back into the Dutch oven, pour in the broth, tomato paste, peeled and chopped carrots, garlic, and herbs.

5. 5

   Season with salt and pepper, stir, and let simmer for 1 hour and 30 minutes over low heat.