Ingredients
- 1kg Stewing Veal
- 1½ oil
- 4 medium onions sliced thinly
- 2 cloves crushed garlic
- 1½ T flour
- 200ml chicken stock
- 190ml Green Man Schwarzbier.
- 1/2t dried thyme or 2t of fresh
- 1 bay leaf
- 1T brown sugar
- 1T cider vinegar
Veal Carbonnade Flamande
Method
- Cut the veal into chunks then use a paper towel to dry, then salt them
- Fry in half the oil over a medium high heat in an oven proof dish with a lid, take care not to crowd the chunks
- Fry until they are well browned, should take about 8 minutes
- Remove from the dish
- Reduce the heat to medium low heat, add the rest of the oil, 1/8t salt and onions
- Stir determinedly for 5 minutes then increase heat to medium and cook for another 10 or 15 minutes until the onions are well wilted
- Add the garlic, and stir
- Then after half a minute add the flour and stir to coat the onions
- Mix the beer and stock and add to the pot, stir to dissolves the flour
- Then add vinegar, sugar, herbs, and browned meat
- Cook for 90 minutes or so at 150C
Comments
Thanks to Origin Meats (veal), and Green Man Brewery (Schwarzbier) for providing the ingredients used in the cooking demonstration at the Otago Farmers Market
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