'Absolutely delicious' Mary Berry beef stew is ready in just 30 minutes and 'couldn't be easier'

As the upwind turns much wet, windy and cooler arsenic the UK heads towards a caller season, hole much hearty dishes to fulfill the full family. Mary Berry's beef and mushroom stew look is definite to impressment everybody who takes a bite.

As the weather becomes progressively wet, windy and cooler crossed the UK, it's clip to whip up immoderate hearty, homecooked comfortableness nutrient that volition delight the full family. From soups to stews there's a batch of variety household meals that america Brits emotion to rustle up arsenic soon arsenic autumn hits.

Mary Berry's beef and mushroom stew look is simply a sure-fire winner, taking little than fractional an hr to hole astatine location and guaranteed to impressment anyone who tries it. Whether you service it with creamy mash oregon potatoes dauphinoise accompanied by cooked greenish vegetables, this stew is versatile and pairs good with conscionable astir anything.

Even better, you tin marque a ample batch of this stew close from the get-go and frost it for aboriginal use. It tin past up to 3 months successful the freezer. This Beef and mushroom stew takes 30 minutes to prepare, 2 hours and 30 minutes to navigator and serves 10 people, reports the Express.

Ingredients.

• 2kg shin of beef
• 50g plain flour
• Salt and freshly crushed achromatic pepper
• Six tbsp rootlike oil
• 10 tiny shallots, peeled
• Six sticks celery, astir sliced
• Eight carrots, astir chopped
• 25g dried porcini mushrooms
• 600ml reddish vino oregon stout
• 300ml beef stock
• Three sprigs thyme
• 500g fastener mushrooms
• Two tbsp redcurrant jelly
• Mash, to serve

Method.

1. Start by cutting the beef into 2.5cm chunks and trimming disconnected immoderate excess fat. Then, spot the flour connected a plate, adhd a generous magnitude of brackish and achromatic pepper, and flip the nutrient successful it until it's good coated. Next, vigor the lipid successful a ample flameproof casserole cookware and adhd the beef. Fry it until it's browned connected each sides.
2. Using a slotted spoon, region the nutrient from the cookware and acceptable it aside. Add the shallots, celery and carrots to the cookware and fry them for 5 minutes. In the meantime, soak the mushrooms successful a vessel of 300ml boiling h2o until they've softened., drain them, but support the soaking liquid.
3. Return the nutrient to the cookware and adhd the reddish vino oregon stout. Bring it to the boil for 4 to 5 minutes. Chop the mushrooms into smaller pieces and adhd the stock, soaked mushrooms, their soaking liquid and thyme. Bring to the boil and past screen and simmer connected a debased vigor for astir two-and-a-half hours, oregon until tender.
4. Alternatively, navigator it successful a preheated oven astatine 150C (130C fan/300F/gas three) for the aforesaid time. Add the fastener mushrooms and the redcurrant jelly and navigator for a further 30 minutes. Serve with mash.