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Red Wine Beef Stew

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Ingredients
  

  • Beef
  • 1 kg of beef cut into 2cmx2cm I use the cheapest about 30% fat meat
  • 1/2 cup of oil for frying

Seasoning

  • 2 Tbsp Soya sauce
  • 1/2 teaspoon Black Cracked pepper
  • Your choice of herbs I used oregano and basil today
  • 2 Tbsp plain flour

Sauce or Base

  • 1 cup red wine I used Shiraz today, never use cooking wine, use read drinking wine
  • 1 cup good stock I used beef cubes + water

Vegetables

  • 2 big yellow onions chucks
  • 3 medium potatoes 2cm x 2cm cubes
  • 5 small carrots 2cm length

Instructions
 

  • Season the beef with everything except the flour, for 15 to 30 minutes. Then add the flour.
  • Heat up the oil in a pressure cooker, and fry the beef in batches. Remove from the pot.
  • Fry the vegetables in batches, and remove.
  • Return all the vegetables and beef into the pressure cooker (or use a casserole if you do not have a pressure cooker) and add the sauce or base.
  • Pressure cook for 15 minutes or cook in the oven at 150C for 2 hours. If using thermal pot, boil and then cover. Cooks in 2-3 hours.