Elements:
3/4 cup caramelized onions *
1 tablespoon butter
1 3/4 lb cubed sirloin
1-pint darkish beer (ideally Belgian)
1 small slice nation white bread unfold with sturdy mustard (like Dijon or Ghent)
2 spéculoos cookies**
1 bay leaf
1 tablespoon brown sugar
salt
freshly floor black pepper
(beef inventory if wanted)
to serve:
fries or boiled carrots and potatoes
further cookies for garnish (non-obligatory)
Instructions:
In a medium, Dutch or French oven saute the onions and meat in butter till the meat is browned. Add the cookies, bay leaf, spices, sugar and slice of bread.
Pour within the beer. The meat needs to be coated, if not, add some beef inventory to make up the distinction. Deliver to a boil then scale back warmth and simmer, coated 45 minutes or till the meat is tender, stirring sometimes.
Serve with fries, or boiled carrots and potatoes. Garnish with an additional cookie.
*about 2 onion’s price
**Two Lotus model cookies or different model speculoos/speculaas cookies or do-it-yourself.
My ideas:
After we have been in Lille, France a few years in the past we, in fact, tried all the native dishes. Since Lille may be very near Belgium, loads of the meals may be very comparable. One dish was on practically each menu, Carbonade flamande, which is a thick beef stew that’s historically made with darkish beer and some slices of ache d’épices, a spiced loaf cake usually referred to in a minimum of the US as French “gingerbread”. In menus in Lille, nevertheless, I noticed a variation made with not cake however cookies! Spéculoos (speculaas) cookies to be precise. After we have been in Brussels practically 10 years in the past the cookies have been all over the place (as have been the molds to make them at residence) and we introduced again some speculoos unfold which over 5 years later turned very fashionable right here as “cookie butter”. In case you are not acquainted, it’s a spice cookie considerably just like a gingersnap. I made a do-it-yourself model of the cookie after our journey however they are often present in shops. Within the US, Lotus markets them as Biscoff cookies and Aldi sells varied flavors of speculoos throughout the winter. You’ll need the traditional speculoos for this recipe, not a butter or almond model.
The concept of placing cookies in stew didn’t appear odd to me in any respect as a result of Baltimore is already residence to Bitter Beef and Dumplings which makes use of gingersnaps to make the gravy. Plus, the cookies are comparatively simple to seek out right here whereas I’d should make ache d’épices myself to make the stew (which I plan to do however not right this moment!).
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