Boeuf Bourguignon (Easy Version)

Name: Boeuf Bourguignon (Easy Version)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 50 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: European
Ingredients: 2 lbs beef stew meat, cubed; 1 bottle red wine; 4 slices bacon, diced; 2 cups button mushrooms; 2 cups pearl onions, frozen; 3 carrots, sliced; 4 cloves garlic; 2 tbsp tomato paste; fresh thyme and bay leaf; mashed potato to serve

An easier take on the French classic — rich wine-braised beef ready in just 2 hours instead of the traditional day-long process. Browning the beef in batches rather than crowding the pot is what gets a proper sear instead of grey, steamed meat.

Total time

170 min

Prep

20 min

Cook

150 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

European

comfortworld

Ingredients

2 lbsbeef stew meat, cubed

1bottle red wine

4 slicesbacon, diced

2 cupsbutton mushrooms

2 cupspearl onions, frozen

3carrots, sliced

4 clovesgarlic

2 tbsptomato paste

fresh thyme and bay leaf

mashed potatoto serve

Instructions

Brown bacon; brown beef in batches.

Sauté vegetables; add tomato paste, wine, herbs.

Return beef; braise at 160°C for 2 hours.

Add mushrooms and onions last 30 min.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

131

Protein

5.9g

Fat

4.5g

Carbs

17.9g

Fiber

3.7g

Sodium

213mg

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