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Slow-cooker stew with beer and chocolate - Fun in the kitchen

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April 9th, 2018

Slow-cooker stew is so delicious that, as far as I am concerned, it is the dish you can make to convince someone of the convenience of the slow-cooker. In other words: if you have to save yourself by making one dish with a slow-cooker, make stew meat: it is so tender that it falls apart, but does not become dry. You make the flavour yourself by using spices and other ingredients, so for this stew I used dark beer and chocolate. The dark beer I got from a hobby brewer from Amsterdam, the chocolate I got from Chocolatemakers, coincidentally also from Amsterdam. You can find the recipe below.

Ingredients

  • Unsalted butter
  • 3 sliced onions (rings for more 'bite' and cubes if you only care about the taste)
  • 500 grams of sukade ragout cut into 2 x 2 cm pieces
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Flour (for pollination of the meat)
  • 3 teaspoons Zwolsche stoof kruiden of Jonnie Boer (Euroma)
  • 6 potatoes peeled and quartered
  • 2 stalks of celery cut into large pieces
  • 6 carrots, peeled and coarsely chopped
  • 1 bottle of dark beer
  • 50 grams of bitter chocolate such as the 92% cacao Gorilla Bar (I received this bar of dark chocolate from Chocolatemakers)
  • Optional vegetable side dish

Preparation:

  1. Fry the onions glazed in the butter.
  2. In the meantime, season the sukade cubes with salt and pepper.
  3. Then sprinkle flour over it.
  4. Then fry the sukkot with the onions until the meat is browned all over.
  5. Add the Zwolsche Stoof herbs and mix well.
  6. Turn off your pan. I use my slow-cooker for frying, if you don't have a frying function then take your meat onion mixture out of your frying pan and spoon it into your slow-cooker.
  7. Put the potatoes on your meat with onion, then put the celery and carrots on top.
  8. Then gently pour the dark beer into the pan.
  9. What I always do now is to take my olive wood ladle, gently put it into the pan from top to bottom and take it out again. I don't stir, I just make sure that the liquid and the herbs are still somewhat distributed over all the vegetables and potatoes. This does not have to be done very precisely.
  10. Now put the lid on the pan and set your slow-cooker for six and a half hours (6 hours and 30 minutes) on low/low.
  11. After at least four hours, add the chocolate and stir everything, but make sure that the meat stays at the bottom of the pan. That way, the meat always remains moist.
  12. I use the 92% cocoa Gorilla Bar because it is very nice dark chocolate that does not taste too bitter. The chocolate gives this dish just that little bit more and it is of course also nice to tell your guests that there is chocolate in the stew.
  13. Put the lid back on the pan and let the dish cook through.

We eat this dish without side dishes. You can, of course, optionally add a salad or other vegetables so that you get enough of them. I have noticed that we tend to cook more and more in one-pan meals in the slow-cooker. It is wonderful to have already cooked in the morning so that we have time to relax after a busy day just before dinner.

source: https://www.plezierindekeuken.nl/slowcooker-stoofvlees-met-bier-en-chocolade/
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