Easy Beef Stew Recipe

This Easy Beef Stew Recipe is a traditional Albanian dish, and it cooks with beef and onion bulbs (onions as small as a walnut). The cooking of this recipe is easy and tasty using the freshest and highest quality ingredients.

Furthermore, this dish is similar to Jahni with meat, another traditional Albanian recipe, but we do not use flour or starch in the stew recipe. The whole recipe prepare by properly combining and cooking beef with onions.

We should use meat from the shoulder or neck part of it for this recipe. As well, you must use wine, wine vinegar, or lemon juice to season this plate. Also, garlic and laurel are a good flavoring of it.

Moreover, you can add potatoes or carrots if you want to add vegetables to the recipe and cook it for children.

So, beef stew juice should not be too thick like various vegetable soups but has a consistency created by boiling the meat and onions.
This dish can be served at a family lunch, accompanied by seasonal salads, Albanian burek recipes, pilaf, oatmeal, couscous, etc. Follow the steps below to prepare it.

Ingredients-4 Servings

• 400-500 g beef
• 500 g onion bulbs
• 2-3 garlic cloves
• 3-4 tbsp olive oil
• 1-2 tbsp wine vinegar, or 1/2 red wine, or lemon juice.
• laurel leaves
• black pepper
• 1 tsp of red pepper powder
• salt
• one potato or carrot (facultative)

Directions

1. First, we will peel the onions, rinse them with cold water, and cut them in a cross shape on the top of each. We will peel and grind the garlic finely.
2. For a faster cook, I boiled the beef pieces separately. After it, I clean them from the bones and cut them into small pieces.
3. In a saucepan, we will add olive oil, onions, finely chopped garlic, beef in pieces, and we will stir-fry them together until the meat turns brown on all sides and the onions turn golden. Next, add bay leaves, black pepper, and a pinch of salt.
4. Then, we will quench them with a little gravy and let them cook in their juice.
5. Once the liquid is absorbed, add the vinegar or wine and let the alcohol evaporate at a high temperature.
6. We will then add the red pepper powder and mix well so that the whole amount season with the pepper and gets its color.
7. And, if you want to add a diced potato or carrot, you can add it at this step of cooking.
8. Then, stir again, add salt and the meat broth covering the whole amount, and let them simmer at medium temperature for 25-30 minutes in a pressure cooker or 45-50 minutes in a slow cooker. If you have pre-cooked the meat, the stew cooking time will be halved.
9. Finally, we will serve the warm çomlek enjoyed with a little ground black pepper at the moment.

Bon Appetit!

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