Italian Beef Stew

Winter is coming, bring on the hearty stews!

This Italian inspired stew packs a lot of veggies as well as tender beef, perfect as the evenings get chillier.

I served mine up with potato but you could do dumplings following the dumpling instructions from one of my other recipes.

Ingredients

Serves 2

• 1 white onion, diced

• 2 carrots, diced

• 1 celery stick, diced

• 250g mushrooms, sliced

• 300g braising beef, cut into chunks

• 100ml red wine

• 150ml stock

• 3 sprigs of thyme

• Parsley, for decoration

Directions

1. Heat oil in a pan, brown off the beef and set aside

2. Add the wine and allow to boil for a couple of minutes to burn off the alcohol

3. Add the stock and bring to boil

4. Add to the slow cooker with the rest of the ingredients and mix up

5. Cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours