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Slow-Cooked Beef with Creamy Mash
Fork-tender beef, deep onion gravy and a cloud of buttery mash for the first properly dark evening of autumn.
Serves 4 · 25 min prep · 8 hr on low
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EP01 · Serves 4 · 25 min prep · 8 hr on low
Slow-Cooked Beef with Creamy Mash
Pat the beef dry, season, then toss with the flour. Heat half the oil in a large frying pan and brown the beef in two batches. Transfer each batch to the slow cooker.
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EP01 · Serves 4 · 25 min prep · 8 hr on lowSlow-Cooked Beef with Creamy MashFork-tender beef, deep onion gravy and a cloud of buttery mash for the first properly dark evening of autumn.
Low 8 hr / High 5 hr · Serves 4 · Easy
Ingredients
- • 1kg braising steak or beef chuck, cut into 5cm pieces
- • 2 tbsp plain flour
- • 2 tbsp rapeseed oil
- • 2 onions, thinly sliced
- • 2 carrots, cut into thick coins
- • 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- • 2 tbsp tomato purée
- • 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- • 500ml reduced-salt beef stock
- • 2 thyme sprigs and 1 bay leaf
- • For the mash: 1kg floury potatoes, peeled and chunked
- • 60g unsalted butter and 120ml warm whole milk
- • Fine salt and black pepper
Still to come this autumn
- EP02 · Honey-Glazed Mint Jerk Lamb — arrives 18 September
- EP03 · Roasted Autumn Vegetable Soup — arrives 25 September
- EP04 · Slow-Cooker Steak with Diane Sauce — arrives 2 October
- EP05 · Chicken & Herb Casserole — arrives 9 October
- EP06 · Rich Beef & Root-Vegetable Stew — arrives 16 October
- EP07 · Creamy Garlic Chicken — arrives 23 October
- EP08 · Bonfire-Night Pulled Beef — arrives 30 October
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