Carbonade Flamande Au Spéculoos (Flemish Beef Stew With Speculoos)

Ingredients:
3/4 loving loving cup caramelized onions *
1 tablespoon butter
1 3/4 lb cubed sirloin
1-pint nighttime beer (preferably Belgian)
1 small-scale spell say white breadstuff spread with strong mustard (like Dijon or Ghent)
2 spéculoos cookies**
1 bay leaf
1 tablespoon chocolate-brown sugar
salt
freshly Earth black pepper
(beef stock if needed)


to serve:
fries or boiled carrots together with potatoes
extra cookies for garnish (optional)


Directions:

In a medium, Dutch or French oven saute the onions together with meat inwards butter until the meat is browned. Add the cookies, bay leaf, spices, refined saccharify together with spell of bread.

Pour inwards the beer. The meat should final covered, if not, add together together some beef stock to build upwardly the difference. Bring to a boil together with so cut down oestrus together with simmer, covered 45 minutes or until the beef is tender, stirring occasionally.

Serve with fries, or boiled carrots together with potatoes. Garnish with an extra cookie.



*about 2 onion's worth
**Two homemade.

My thoughts:

When we were inwards Lille, France a dyad of years agone we, of course, tried all of the local dishes. Since Lille is actually unopen to Belgium, a lot of the food is actually similar. One dish was on nearly every menu, Carbonade flamande, which is a thick beef stew that is traditionally made with nighttime beer together with a few slices of pain d’épices, a spiced loaf cake ofttimes referred to inwards at to the lowest grade the USA every flake French "gingerbread". In looking at menus inwards Lille, however, I saw a variation made with non cake but cookies! Spéculoos (speculaas) cookies to final exact. When we were inwards Brussels nearly 10 years agone the cookies were everywhere (as were the molds to build them at home) together with we brought back some speculoos spread which over v years later on on became actually popular hither every flake "cookie butter". If y'all lot are non familiar, it is a spice cookie somewhat similar to a gingersnap. I made a homemade version of the cookie after our trip but they tin sack final found inwards stores. In the US, Lotus markets them every flake Biscoff cookies together with Aldi sells various flavors of speculoos during the winter. You'll wishing the classic speculoos for this recipe, non a butter or almond version.

The lookout adult man of putting cookies inwards stew didn't seem foreign to me at all because Baltimore is already habitation to Sour Beef together with Dumplings which uses gingersnaps to build the gravy. Plus, the cookies are relatively field of cake to discovery hither whereas I'd bring to build pain d’épices myself to build the stew (which I innovation to exercise but non today!).

To build this dish fifty-fifty quicker, I gave myself a top dog kickoff together with caramelized the onions inwards my tardily cooker and heated them upwardly vs starting with raw onions. That cutting downward the cooking 4th dimension to proficient under an hour (and at that location was virtually goose egg hands-on time) thence I was able to build this on a random Thursday eventide vs waiting for the weekend.

Making a stew with a spell of mustard-coated bread together with some cookies seems foreign but it totally works! The cookie together with breadstuff completely disintegrate together with magically exercise the thick sauce y'all lot come upwards across above.




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