Slow cooked beef with garlic, onions and bacon in Belgian beer – served with Dijon mustard croutons…….absolute bliss! I have eaten this many times on visits to Belgium and it remains a firm favourite, especially when eaten with piles of fluffy mashed potatoes and a glass of fine Belgian beer! This recipe serves two hungry people, but it can be increased to serve a crowd, and works beautifully in the crockpot too. (The recipe is courtesy of Cecile Loubaud and the Batham’s Brewery.) NB: Traditionally, the meat should be grilled on a barbecue – hence the name! The word comes from the Italian carbonate (charcoal-grilled).
This recipe was found in Robin Robertson’s Vegan Planet. My hubby is a brewer, so I naturally gravitated toward this recipe. I think this recipe would be equally as good with sliced portabello mushrooms. It’s all about the sauce, which is thick and delicious. The carmelized onions are what makes this so tasty, in my opinion. The note says to serve it over noodles and to wash it down with more of the beer that you use in the stew. I served it over mashed potatoes and a side of steamed broccoli and used (and drank) oatmeal stout. Yum.
From the cookbook “Recipes from Basque Restaurants of the West.” This recipe is from the Carson Valley Country Club Basque Restaurant in Garnerville, Nevada.
Make and share this Marmitako – Basque Bonito Stew recipe from Food.com.
Axoa d’Espelette. A delicious veal stew that is slightly spicy. “Espelette is a slightly piquant red pepper grown in the Basque region of France and Spain.” In this recipe, a combination of red bell peppers and a little cayenne makes a good substitute.
