Boeuf Bourguignonne

By NickiR

This is my mum's recipe and I've never tasted any better.

Ingredients

• 3 lbs. lean beef, cubed (top sirloin)
• 1/2 lb. bacon, chopped
• 3 Tbsp. flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. pepper
• 1/2 tsp. thyme
• 1 tsp. oregano
• 1/2 tsp. garlic
• 1 can consomme
• 1/2 soup can good burgundy wine
• 1 cup whole small mushrooms
• 1 cup whole pearl onions

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Cook bacon in a large skillet. Remove bacon to a Dutch oven and brown the beef in small amounts in the bacon fat.

Remove the beef and add to the Dutch oven.

Remove most of the bacon fat, keeping about 1 tablespoon in the skillet. Add the flour, salt, pepper, thyme, oregano and garlic to the skillet and cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes. Add the can of consomme and the wine. Stir to make gravy, ensuring to scrape up all the meat residue.

Pour the gravy over the beef. Cover and bake at 325 for 2 hours, adding more wine if needed.

After two hours, add the mushrooms and pearl onions. Cook for 1 1/2 hours more.

Serve with buttered egg noodles.