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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 (566g)

Recipe makes 3 servings

Calories 907
Calories from Fat 476 (52%)
Amount Per Serving %DV
Total Fat 52.9g 81%
Saturated Fat 21.0g 105%
Monounsaturated Fat 22.3g
Polyunsaturated Fat 3.7g
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 206mg 68%
Sodium 365mg 15%
Potassium 1250mg 35%
Total Carbohydrate 38.9g 12%
Dietary Fiber 2.7g 10%
Sugars 15.9g
Protein 61.1g 122%

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Stoofvlees

Recipe #108909 | 3½ hours | 30 min prep | add private note

By: Chef Suz in Bekond
Jan 20, 2005

All good Belgiums learn to cook with beer. Its the national drink. This dish is a slow cooker for cold winter days. The meat is so tender it melts in your mouth.

SERVES 3 -4 (change servings and units)

Ingredients

  • 1 lb stewing beef
  • 1 lb pork stew meat
  • 3 large onions

  • 1 (8 ounce) can dark beer (if you have problems buying dark beer, use the darkest possible and add 1 tablespoon brown sugar)
  • 3 slices of dark bread or whole wheat bread or seven-grain bread
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • hot mustard

Directions

  1. 1
    Brown beef and pork in olive oil plus one tablespoon of butter.
  2. 2
    Remove meat.
  3. 3
    Drop onions and sugar into meat drippings and saute till tender.
  4. 4
    Add meat back to onions and fill pan with 5 cups of water.
  5. 5
    Add beer.
  6. 6
    Spread a thick layer of mustard on each slice of bread and lay on top.
  7. 7
    of meat and sauce.
  8. 8
    Cook with a lid on top of stove for 2 hours.
  9. 9
    Stew mixture should cook just at the boiling point.
  10. 10
    Remove lid and continue to cook till liquid has reduced to half and meat is tender.
  11. 11
    Bread should have disolved into sauce.
  12. 12
    Thicken with 2 tablespoons of cornstarch and 2 tablespoons of water.
  13. 13
    Serve with potatoes, rice, or Belgium (french) fries.

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