Slow Cooked Beef And Red Wine Ragout

Total Time: 2 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/4 cup oil
• 1 kg pickling onions (peeled and halved)
• 1 kg chuck steak (or gravy beef cut into chunks)
• 2 garlic cloves (minced)
• 1/3 cup tomato paste
• 2 cups beef stock
• 1 cup red wine
• 125 g cream cheese (light block)
• salt (to taste)
• pepper (to taste)

Recipe

• 1 heat half the oil in a heavy based saucean and cook the onions until browned and set aside.
• 2 heat remaining oil and brown beef in batches and set aside.
• 3 add garlic and tomato paste and gently cook for 1 minute.
• 4 return beef to saucepan and add stock and wine and bring to the boil, reduce heat and cover and simmer for 1 1/2 hours stirring occassionally and then add the onion and cook for a further 20 minutes.
• 5 whisk together the cream cheese with some of the cooking liquid until smooth and add to the saucepan and simmer a further 10 minutes.
• 6 spoon onto serving plates over the pasta and serve immediately.