beef and red wine soup

Total Time: 2 hrs 45 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 lb lean stewing beef, cubed
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 20 pearl onions, peeled (or 1 lg. onion chopped)
• 4 large shallots, peeled
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 (1 large) package mushroom, sliced
• 2 teaspoons olive oil
• 40 ounces water
• 6 knorr beef bouillon cubes
• 1 1/2 cups red wine
• 15 ounces tomato sauce
• 2 carrots, diced
• 2 celery ribs, diced
• 1/2 cup pearl barley
• salt
• pepper

Recipe

• 1 coat beef cubes lightly with flour.
• 2 in a large stock pot saute beef, shallots, onions, mushrooms and garlictill beef is browned and onion is tender.
• 3 add remaining ingredients and simmer till barley is tender.