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Bœuf Bourguignon

Julia Child's favourite — fork-tender beef braised in Burgundy with lardons, mushrooms and pearl onions.

Prep30mCook210mTotal240m6servings

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ unit beef chuckcut into 5cm cubes
  • 200 unit smoked lardons
  • 2 bottles Burgundy Pinot Noir
  • 500 unit chestnut mushroomsquartered
  • 200 unit pearl onionspeeled
  • 2 tbsp tomato paste
  • 4 cloves garliccrushed
Servings
6

Instructions

  1. 1

    Marinate beef in wine with herbs overnight in the fridge.

  2. 2

    Brown lardons in a Dutch oven. Remove. Brown beef in batches in the fat.

  3. 3

    Sauté onions and garlic. Add tomato paste and cook 2 minutes.

  4. 4

    Return beef and lardons. Add marinade wine. Bring to a simmer.

  5. 5

    Braise in oven at 160°C for 3 hours, adding mushrooms in the last 45 minutes.

  6. 6

    Remove beef. Reduce sauce if needed. Season. Return beef and serve with pommes purée.