Beef Bourguignon Slow Cooker

🥘 Bourgignon in French

This Beef Bourguignon slow cooker recipe is a classic French dish of beef cooked in red wine or a good substitute and is an easy, tasty meal. Also known as a beef stew it is sure to be a winner with everyone! It is very easy to make although you need to marinate the meat the day before you cook it for best results, so a little planning ahead will go a long way for success!

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• 🥘 Bourgignon in French
• ✅About Beef Bourguignon
• 📋Ingredients
• 🔢Instructions
• 🥂What To Serve With This Dish
• 🔄Substitutions
• 🙌Variations & Similar Recipes To This One
• 🍴Equipment
• ❄️Storage
• 💡Tips
• ❓FAQ
• 👩🏻‍🔬Food Safety
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✅About Beef Bourguignon

Planning ahead for this recipe will produce the best results and it is well worth the effort.

It is most suitable for your family meals or for entertaining, so it really is a recipe to fall in love with!

Of course, pick up any cookbook and you will find a different recipe for Bœuf Bourguignon in each, there are so many variants.

Use this recipe as a basis, and then tweak to your own satisfaction.

📋Ingredients

• beef stewing meat, this is the dish to use cheaper cuts of beef

For the Marinade

• good red wine or a substitute (See notes below for substitutions.)
• olive oil
• small carrot
• chopped onion
• chopped shallots
• chopped garlic

For the Stew

• olive oil
• butter
• flour
• tomato puree
• minced garlic
• bouquet garni
• Salt and pepper
• chopped parsley
• chopped parsley
• dried thyme
• bay leaf
• peppercorns
• clove

🔢Instructions

For Marinating the Meat

1. Cut the meat into large pieces
2. Place in a large bowl
3. Add all the ingredients for the marinade, and mix well
4. Place bowl in the refrigerator over night

Cooking The Bourguignon

Start early the day you are serving:

1. Prepare to cook the beef bourguignon for 3-4 hours (if cooking on high heat) or 5-6 hours (if cooking on medium/low heat) before serving, depending on the temperature of your slow cooker.
2. Drain the meat and dry it with a paper towel (It will not brown if it is too wet).
3. Strain the vegetables from the liquid in the marinade and keep the juices and vegetable medley to add later.
4. Heat the oil right in your slow cooker or large heavy-bottomed pan, brown the meat on all sides. (I prefer to brown the meat in a heavy-bottomed skillet first rather than in the slow cooker. My slow cooker is older and would not do the best job.)
5. If using a separate pan from the slow cooker move the meat to the slow cooker and don't leave any scrapings or juice behind from browning the meat.
6. Add the vegetables from the marinade and 2 tablespoons of the butter.
7. Simmer for 15 minutes, stirring often.
8. Sprinkle the flour over the mixture and stir until well blended.
9. Cover with the marinade.
10. Bring to a boil.
11. Add seasoning. (Start with a little of each, stir well to blend and after a half hour, taste, and add more if needed. This part of any recipe is a matter of individual taste.)
12. Add ½ cup (4 fl oz/125 ml) water.
13. Add the tomato puree, garlic, and bouquet garni.
14. Cover, and simmer for about 3-4 hours on high or 5-6 hours on low, but don’t let it boil hard, you just want it to be a gentle bubble.

🥂What To Serve With This Dish

• Cook the potatoes in boiling salted water until soft. Serve boiled or creamed.
• Traditionally this stew is served in a bowl and the potatoes are served separately, but I always have mine together in a large shallow bowl.
• You could also have polenta (boiled cornmeal, best cooked in chicken stock) instead of the potatoes if you choose, or for a change next time. Absolutely yummy! Lovely recipe here at Love and Lemons.

🔄Substitutions

Substituting Liquids

In any recipe if you do not want to use the type of liquid suggested you will still need to replace the liquid amount with something or your dish may turn out much drier than expected.

🍷For Red Wine

• alcohol-free red wine
• red wine vinegar (½ vinegar and ½ water)
• grape juice
• cranberry juice
• pomegranate juice
• cherry juice
• beef broth
• chicken broth
• water

🥣How To Replace Foods Successfully

Spoon a small amount of the dish you are making into a small bowl and add a little of the substitute you want to try. Try to use an equivalent amount as best you can for the smaller test amount. This method gives you the opportunity to test the taste of your substitution before mixing it into your entire dish and finding you don't like it, which will be harder to amend.

🙌Variations & Similar Recipes To This One

• Another wonderful Beef Bourguignon for you to enjoy Beef Burgundy Recipe.
• Beef Carbonnade or Beef Steak In Beer is a delicious meat dish that you can add your favorite vegetables to, to make an amazing meal.
• And, even though Beef Bourguignon is a beef stew, here is another tasty Crockpot Beef Stew With Gravy recipe that will take the chill out of any winter evening!

🍴Equipment

• crock pot
• heavy-bottomed pan
• large stirring spoon
• serving spoon
• pot to cook potatoes
• knife for chopping
• chopping block

❄️Storage

Refrigerator

Beef Bourguignon can be kept in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

Freezing

This dish can be frozen in an air tight container for up to 6 months. (Potatoes do not freeze well, they will be "mealy' so if you are adding them to your stew only add potatoes to an amount you will not be freezing.)

💡Tips

Browning the meat ahead before adding to the stew in this recipe or any recipe you make with a red meat will result in a much deeper, tastier, flavor.

❓FAQ

👩🏻‍🔬Food Safety

• Handle raw meat safely with freshly washed hands, counter, chopping block, and utensils.
• Wash hands after handling meat before touching other food.
• Cook thoroughly, internal temperature for red meat should be minimum 145° up to 170° for well done.
• Cooked meat should be refrigerated after 2 hours of being out.

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