GUINNESS AND COFFEE IRISH BEEF STEW

GUINNESS AND COFFEE IRISH BEEF STEW

Rich Irish beef stew, made with the unmistakable flavor of Guinness and coffee, makes this the most savory and mouthwatering comfort food you’ll ever eat!

There are few things more hearty and comforting than a big pot of rich beef stew.  However, this Irish beef stew with Guinness beer and coffee extract really takes the cake!  The Guinness and coffee flavors meld perfectly to give way to a deep, rich, lusciously savory sauce that simmers away to tenderize the beef so it’s practically spoonable!

GUINNESS AND COFFEE IRISH BEEF STEW

It may be starting to warm up, but I’m still all about that comfort food!  I think one of the most quintessential comfort foods is beef stew, or in this case, Irish beef stew.  around this time of year, Guinness recipes start popping up all over the place.  Not that I could really complain, I do love using beer in recipes, like my Guinness Cupcakes with Baileys Frosting, and Whiskey Glazed Blue Cheese Burgers.

Irish beef stew is traditionally made with Guinness, but I really wanted to bring that rich flavor home, so I added some Nielsen Massey pure coffee extract as well.  It mimics the coffee/chocolate backnotes of the beer, lending an amazing richness to the sauce.  I’ve been a huge fan of Nielsen Massey products ever since I tried their vanilla bean paste (seriously, pick some of it up, you won’t regret it!!), but they also have other extracts, like lemon, orange, rose water, etc.  You can see a full product listing here, along with uses and pairings here.  I really like using a brand that uses as few ingredients as possible when producing its pure extracts to create the highest-quality product available.

One of my favorite things about this Irish beef stew is that while it’s amazing right away, the leftovers the next day are even better!  The flavors have really had time to blend together, and it reheats beautifully!

Even though this stew has some potatoes in it, sometimes I like to be a bit extra decadent and serve this stew over a pile of mashed potatoes!  If you’ve never had it this way, you simply have to try it!! Cozy on up with a big bowl of this Guinness and Coffee Irish Beef Stew and treat yourself!

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 1/2 Tbsp olive oil
• 2 1/2 lbs boneless beef chuck
• salt and black pepper, to season beef
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 yellow onions, chopped
• 7 slices bacon, chopped
• 3 1/2 Tbsp all purpose flour
• 14.9 oz can Guinness Draught beer
• 5 Tbsp tomato paste
• 3 cups chicken stock
• 4 carrots, peeled and cut into 1/2-1" slices
• 2 celery stalks, cut into 1" pieces
• 1 parsnip, peeled and cut into 1/2" pieces (optional)
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 tsp dried thyme (or use 3-4 sprigs fresh thyme)
• 1 tsp Nielsen Massey pure coffee extract
• 1/4 cup water
• 3 dried prunes, chopped (this is to mitigate any possible bitterness from the Guinness or coffee)
• 8 baby red skin potatoes, cut in half or quarters

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Use a tart cutlery to part boeuf fare into 1 1/2-2" pieces.  Dab oxen with a paper towel to dry, then toughen generously with saltish and illegal shrub.  Warmth olive oil in a fat bottomed pot (I fuck to use my nation oven) over Full warmth.  
2. add kine, in a uninominal bed, to the pot and chromatic on all sides.  Be elaborated, as the oil may splash.  Vanish suntanned cattle to a receptacle, then act with remaining cattle.
3. Junior warmth to MED, then add cut onions and flavorer.  Mollify with brackish, and fix until soft, about 3-4 transactions.  
4. add scientist pieces and prepare until suntanned.  add flour and strike to have surface.  Let floured miscellanea prepare 1 minute to disappear any raw flour secernment.  Patch flour intermixture is cookery, pool seed take and wet and set substance.
5. Pelt in Histrion beer and strike symptomless to combine and loosen any brunet bits from the nether of the pot.  add tomato attach, crybaby capital, carrots, herb, herb, bay leaves, thyme and coffee selection smorgasbord.
6. Elect kine to the pot and shift.  If needed, add enough installation so that the cows and veggies are nearly full tiled.
7. Transport to a belch, then minify turn to LOW or so that it's simmering, bedclothes, and simmer for 2 hours.
8. Take lid, add potatoes and sliced prunes, strike, then simmer Unclothed another 30-40 transactions, until sauce has thickened to a alter gravy uniformness, kine is unbelievably immature and potatoes are fork tenderized.
9. If needed, withdraw matter fat off the layer.  Taste, and modifies diplomacy and shrub as necessary.  Withdraw bay leaves and provide.

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