Beef Bourguignon With Potatoes {Clean Eating}

Tender, fall apart beef, soft potatoes, bacon lardons and mushrooms all cooked in a rich red wine sauce. Hungry? Good :) This Beef Bourguignon with Potatoes recipe is comfort food, it's filling, it's going to make your home smell Ahhmazing...and it's a Clean eating Real food dinner. Tuck in!

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Beef Bourguignon With Potatoes

This recipe for Beef Bourguignon with Potatoes is a variation on a recipe my family have been making for a long time. The original recipe's source is unknown but as with most things I cook, the pared down, simplified, works-for-fussy-kids version I end up using time and time again becomes our favorite.

The list of ingredients isn't long. I can't be doing with pages and pages of ingredients and prefer instead to use good quality Real foods and let their natural flavors come through. In this case, right alongside your food ingredients you'll need to sacrifice a large glass (1 cup to be exact!) of a good red wine.

I use alcohol (wine almost always) in cooking and I'm okay with that. Alcohol burns itself away during the cooking process and you're left with the flavor but not the alcohol. However there are some studies that say not all the alcohol is burned during the heating process, so if you're someone that cannot or doesn't want to use alcohol in cooking, try this Beef stew instead.

What's The Difference Between Beef Bourguignon and Beef Stew?

The main difference between this French Beef Bourguignon dish and a Beef stew is that red wine is used in place of a stock. I'm reliably informed that the wine that should be used is a Burgundy Red, a Pinot Noir or a Gamay. Was mine any of these? Honestly, I'm not sure. But it worked.

Don't worry too much about which red wine you use.

What Is Beef Bourguignon Traditionally Served With?

I add potatoes into my Beef Bourguignon, along with mushrooms. That might be enough and if your kids are tucking into this and enjoying it, I'd say you've done good.

Many Beef Bourguignon recipes add carrots into the dish while it's cooking, and you can do this by adding them at the same point as you add the potatoes. I like to leave them out and add whatever I happen to have in the fridge at the time I'm making it.

Some vegetable sides for Beef Bourguignon:

• Glazed carrots
• Steamed broccoli
• Butter pan fried green beans
• Pan fried Brussel sprouts

Slow Cooker Beef Bourguignon

I cook this on the stove top. I put everything in the pan and let it do it's thing while I do something else, and there it stays until we're ready to eat.

You can also cook this in the oven or in the slow cooker. If you're cooking this in the oven, make sure the temperature's down low and the pot is covered so the sauce don't evaporate before you get to eat it!

The same goes for a Crock Pot as well. You can put this together in the morning and come home in the evening to firstly, a rather yummy smelling house, and secondly, a warming, hearty dinner.

Making Ahead And Storing

You can easily make this recipe a day or two ahead and reheat it when you need it. As long as the use by date on the beef allows, you can cook this, cool it and keep it covered with the pot lid in the fridge for up to 2 days.

I like to leave it in the same pot I cooked it in and you can then simply pop it back on the cooker top and reheat it gently until it's heated all the way through. If you do this, bring the pot to room temperature before heating it.

The sauce from the Bourguignon will thicken considerably in the fridge, so you'll need to add 4-5 tablespoon of water to thin it out when you're reheating it.

If your beef was fresh and not already defrosted, you can freeze this recipe and keep it in the freezer for up to a month. Put it into a freezer bag/container as soon as it's totally cooled after cooking and to defrost it, leave it in the fridge until fully thawed. You can then transfer it to the pot you cooked it in and reheat as above.

More Clean Eating Beef Recipes

• Slow cooker Mongolian Beef
• Beef pot roast
• Beef stew with sticky dumplings
• Clean eating ground beef curry
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How To Make Beef Bourguignon With Potatoes

Ingredients

• 1 lb Beef Cheaper cuts of beef work well in this recipe
• ½ Cup Bacon Lardons
• 1 Onion
• 1½ Cups Mushrooms Button mushrooms
• 1 Cup Tomato puree
• 1 Cup Red wine
• 2 tbsp Flour
• Salt and Pepper To season
• 4 Potatoes Peeled, cut into medium pieces
• 1 tbsp Olive oil

Instructions

• In a large pot, heat the Olive oil
• Add the beef and brown quickly to give the meat some color. Then add the bacon and onions and cook for a couple of minutes
• Season the meat, onions and bacon well and combine
• Add the flour to the pan and mix so the flour coats all the food ion the pot. You'll have a paste type mix as the flour mixes with the juices form the beef in the pot. Cook for a couple of minutes
• Turn the heat down to low, and then add the tomato puree and wine. Stir to combine
• Add the mushrooms to the pot and combine. You can leave these whole for bigger kids or chop them smaller for little ones
• The sauce will thicken up fairly fast, and you want to get the pot to down to a simmer
• Leave the pot simmering for 1½-2 hours on the stove top, using the pan lid to cover most of the pot and leaving a small gap so the pots t not fully enclosed
• Stir occasionally throughout
• Serve!

Beef Bourguignon With Potatoes Recipe