Supreme Beef And Mushroom Casserole

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 kg of good quality beef steak
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 30 g butter
• 3 slices bacon, roughly chopped
• 2 brown onions, roughly chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 2 tablespoons plain flour
• 1 cup beef stock
• 1 1/2 cups red wine
• 1 bay leaf
• 1/2 teaspoon thyme
• seasoning, to taste
• 125 g fresh mushrooms, sliced
• 1/4 cup of chopped parsley

Recipe

• 1 trim fat from meat and cut into cubes.
• 2 heat butter and oil in heavy based saucepan and brown meat.
• 3 remove meat from pan and saute bacon, onion and garlic in the pan drippings.
• 4 stir in flour and allow to brown.
• 5 remove from heat and stir in stock, wine,bay leaf,thyme,seasoning.
• 6 return the meat to pan and simmer for about 1 hour or until meat is tender.
• 7 stir in mushrooms and cook for a further 15 minutes and serve sprinkled with parsley.