Beef In Beer Oven Potjie (Serves 4 – 6)
Ingredients:
- 30 ml sunflower oil
- 1,5 kg sliced beef shin
- 125 ml streaky bacon, chopped
- 2 onions, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic crushed
- 1 x 50 g sachet KOO Tomato Paste Beef Flavour
- 1x 35 g KOO Concentrated Wet Stock Beef Flavour
- 330 ml bottle of beer
- 250 ml water
- 30 ml honey
- 5 ml salt
- Freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 60 ml cake flour
- 100 ml water
Creamy mashed potato
- Preheat oven to 160C.
- Heat oil in a heavy-based ovenproof potjie and fry meat in batches until meat is golden brown in colour. Fry bacon and set aside with meat. Add onion and garlic and fry until onions are soft.
- Mix KOO Tomato Paste, KOO Concentrated Wet Stock, beer, water and honey together. Pour over meat mixture. Season with salt and pepper.
- Cover with lid and place in the preheated oven for 1 ½ – 2 hours or until beef is tender.
- Make a paste with the cake flour and water, stir into cooking liquid. Simmer on the stove top for a further 10 minutes until the sauce has thickened.
- Served with mashed potato.
Variations:
- Use ginger ale as an alternative to the beer in this recipe.
- Add a can of KOO Mixed Vegetables to make the meal go further.
- Add a punnet of freshly chopped and sautéed mushrooms to the dish for a variation.
