Ingredients
1.5kg chuck steak
trimmed and cubed
½ cup plain flour
salt
to taste
pepper
to taste
2 tbsp vegetable oil
50g butter
4 onions
sliced
2 carrots
sliced
4-8 potatoes
thickly sliced
2 beer
2 cups beef stock
3 bay leaves
10 black peppercorns
soy sauce
Mentioned in method, add to taste
Equipment
- 1 large ziploc bag
- 1 frying pan
- 1 slow cooker
- 1 metal spoon
Instructions
- Place flour, salt and pepper and steak in a large ziploc bag and shake.
- Heat butter and oil in a frying pan and brown all of the meat in batches, then place in the slow cooker.
- Add the vegetables.
- Pour over the beer, stock, peppercorns, soy sauce and bay leaves.
- Cook on high for 1 hour and then skim the oil off with a metal spoon and discard.
- Turn the heat down to low and cook for 6 hours on low.
Notes
Tip
I used Lion beer because I had it in the cupboard. You can choose your own favourite to use.
Tip
I like to cut all of these ingredients chunky style so they hold their form in the slow cooker.
Variation
You can thicken this with 2 tsp of cornflour mixed in a glass of cold water, added to the stew an hour before the stew finishes cooking.
