Braised beef with beer and sweet onions

Servings: 4

Preparation: 25 minutes

Cooking: 3 hours and 40 minutes

Ingredients

• 400 gr (13 1/2 oz) beef stew cubes
• Flour as needed
• 60 ml (4 tbsp) fat of your choice (butter, oil or Mycryo cocoa butter)
• 3 onions, minced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 l (4 cups) beef broth
• 15 ml (1 tbsp) horseradish
• 60 ml (4 tbsp) maple syrup
• 2 bottles Rickard’s red beer
• 2 pie crusts
• 4 servings green beans, blanched and seasoned
• Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation

1. Roll the meat cubes in the flour.
2. In a hot casserole dish, sear the meat in the fat of your choice for 2 minutes. Add the onions, garlic, bay leaf, broth, horseradish, maple syrup, beer, cover and cook over low heat for 3 hours. Check the seasoning.
3. In the meantime, preheat the oven, rack in the center to 200 °C (400 °F).
4. On the work surface, roll out the pie crusts and using a cookie cutter, cut out rounds of dough so that they can line the ramekins and also cover them.
5. Line each ramekin with a cut-out of dough. Using a fork, prick the bottoms, spread the meat mixture, cover with a layer of dough and cook in the oven for 40 minutes.
6. Serve with green beans.