Braised beef with beer and sweet onions

Serves : 4

Preparation time: 25 minutes

Cooking time: 3 hours 40 minutes

Ingredients

• 400 g (13 1/2 oz) stewing beef cubes
• Qs flour
• 60 ml (4 tbsp) fat of your choice (butter, oil or Mycryo cocoa butter)
• 3 onions, thinly sliced
• 3 garlic cloves, chopped
• 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 Ale
• 2 pie shells
• 4 portions green beans, blanched and seasoned
• Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation

1. Roll meat cubes in flour.
2. In a hot casserole, brown the meat in the fat of your choice for 2 minutes. Add the onions, garlic, bay leaf, stock, horseradish, maple syrup and beer, cover and simmer for 3 hours. Check seasoning.
3. Meanwhile, preheat the oven, rack in center, to 200°C (400°F).
4. On a work surface, roll out the pastry dough and, using a pastry cutter, cut out rounds to line and cover the ramekins.
5. Line each ramekin with a pastry cut-out. Using a fork, prick the bottoms, spread the meat mixture, cover with a layer of pastry and bake for 40 minutes.
6. Serve with green beans.