Beef Daube

Total Time: 3 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs 55 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup dried great northern beans (can use navy beans or kidney beans)
• water, enough to cover beans
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 1 3/4 lbs beef round steak, cut into 3/4-inch cubes
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 3 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1/3 cup dry red wine
• 1 1/2 cups beef stock or 1 1/2 cups beef broth
• 2 bay leaves
• 1/2 teaspoon dried leaf thyme
• 4 garlic cloves, minced
• salt, to taste
• black pepper, to taste
• 1/2 lb fresh carrot, cut into 2-inch pieces

Recipe

• 1 soak beans in enough cold water to cover for 12 hours.
• 2 heat oil in a large stovetop casserole. add onion; sautè until tender. add beef; sautè until lightly browned. sprinkle with flour; sautè 3 to 5 minutes longer. stir in tomato paste, wine, stock or broth, bay leaf, thyme, garlic, salt and pepper. bring to a boil.
• 3 preheat oven to 400ºf. add beans and soaking water to beef mixture. cover and bake 2 hours or until beef and beans are tender.
• 4 meanwhile, cook carrots in salted water until crisp-tender. remove and discard bay leaf from stew. stir in cooked carrots. serve hot over noodles.