Beef / Pork

Beef Stew with Dried Plums is for Dinner.

Beef Stew with Dried Plums takes 45 minutes to prepare.

Beef Stew with Dried Plums takes 240 minutes to cook.

Beef Stew with Dried Plums makes 15 servings.

The ingredients for Beef Stew with Dried Plums are:

4 slices of thick cut bacon, cut into 1/4 -inch thick pieces
3 tablespoons olive oil
3 lbs of beef chuck, cut into bite sized pieces
2 carrots, sliced
2 cups pearl onions, peeled
1 teaspoon salt
? teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon white sugar
2 tablespoons flour (or more to coat meat)
3 cups chocolate wine (or good quality red wine)
2 ? 3 cups beef stock
1 tablespoon tomato paste
2 cloves mashed garlic
1 crumbled bay leaf
1 pound mushrooms, cleaned and quartered
8 prunes

Here is how you make Beef Stew with Dried Plums:

-Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.-In a large skillet, simmer bacon for 10 minutes in water. Drain and dry.-Saut? bacon in 1 tablespoon olive oil in skillet over medium heat for 2-3 minutes until slightly brown. Remove bacon leaving fat in pan.-Dry beef pieces in paper towels. Adding a few beef pieces at a time, brown in bacon fat over medium-high heat. Place browned meat in large dutch oven. Continue process until all pieces are browned on all sides. Add bacon to dutch oven with beef.-Using same fat in skillet, brown the sliced carrots and set aside.-Toss the beef and bacon with salt, black pepper and sugar. Sprinkle meat with flour until lightly coated. Set pot uncovered in the middle position of oven for 4 minutes.-Remove pot from oven and reduce oven to 325 degrees F.-Add wine and beef stock to just barely cover the meat. Stir in tomato paste, garlic and bay leaf. Bring to a simmer on top of stove.-Cover pot and place back in oven allowing meat to slowly simmer for 3-4 hours. Check every hour to make sure liquid barely covers the meat, adding additional wine and stock if necessary.-While beef is cooking, saut? onions and mushrooms in remaining olive oil until lightly browned. Add onions, mushrooms, prunes and carrots to last hour of cooking.-Meat is done when tender.Serving Size:?Makes about 15 - 1 cup servings

The nutritional information for Beef Stew with Dried Plums is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 15
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 396.4

• Total Fat: 21.9 g
• Cholesterol: 57.3 mg
• Sodium: 339.0 mg
• Total Carbs: 12.1 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1.6 g
• Protein: 28.9 g