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I have a short New Year’s Resolution list. It’s much the same list that I wrote down last year and the year before. It involves cooking and eating more nutritious foods.
Homemade soups are the most nourishing food I can think of. Enough protein, enough fats of the right sort, lots of vegetables in healthy stocks and broths, rich in nutrients. That’s what soups and stews are made of.
Therefore, my number one New Year’s resolution is to make one big pot of homemade soup or stew each and every week of the new year. Last year I lost focus and fell short of my weekly soup/stew goal, but this first week of the new year, I’m at 100%, starting with a simple gluten-free version of “Beef Burgundy.”
On Christmas Day my son served an amazing Beef Bourguignon for the family. The flavors were rich and earthy. As I listened to him describe his list of ingredients and method of preparation I decided to start the year with an abbreviated, easier version of the classic French Beef Bourguignon recipe, beef burgundy. Here is my first gluten-free stew of the new year.
Gluten-Free Beef Burgundy Recipe
According to our About.com Guide to French Food beef burgundy, or boeuf Bourguignon, is the ultimate slow-cooked comfort food. It is!
The earthy flavors in this simple dish transform run-of-the-mill beef stew into something truly special to be enjoyed with a warm slice of gluten-free bread and a glass of wine.
Our easy version of gluten-free beef burgundy is adapted from a recipe for “Burgundy Beef’ which appears in The Fannie Farmer Cookbook.
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Total Time: 3 hours
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients:
- 2 pounds lean stewing beef or sirloin, cut in 1-inch cubes
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 medium sweet yellow onion, chopped in 1/2-inch pieces
- 4 tablespoons sweet rice flour
- 1 1/4 cups low-sodium gluten-free beef stock, preferably homemade
- 1 1/4 cups red wine, Burgundy or Cabernet
- 1 teaspoon dried marjoram
- 2 teaspoons fresh crumbled thyme, or 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt, or to taste
- 8 ounces button mushrooms, wiped clean
- 8 ounces fresh peeled or frozen (thawed) pearl onions
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 300° F / 149° C
Place butter and olive oil in a heavy Dutch oven on medium high heat. When pan is hot, but before the fats start to smoke or burn, add cubed beef and cook until browned. Turn beef to brown all sides. Remove from pan and set aside. Add chopped onions and cook for about 5 minutes, or just until they begin to turn golden brown.
Turn heat off. Sprinkle sweet rice flour into pan with onions. Stir to combine sweet rice flour with onions. Slowly pour 1/2 cup of the beef stock into pan. Return heat to medium and whisk until the mixture thickens and becomes smooth. Add the remaining beef stock and red wine to the pan. Stir to thoroughly combine ingredients.
Add marjoram, thyme, salt and pepper and stir to blend.
Cover the Dutch oven and place in preheated oven. Cook for 2 hours or until beef is very tender. Remove pan and add mushrooms and pearl onions. Cover and return pan to oven for 30 minutes, or until the pearl onions are tender with pieced with a fork.
Beef burgundy can be prepared up to two days before serving. Cook, completely cool and refrigerate in a covered container until ready to reheat and serve.
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Author Information: Teri Gruss, MS
About.com Guide to Gluten-Free Cooking
Teri was diagnosed with gluten intolerance after decades of symptoms that culminated in malabsorption syndrome. Teri has written numerous health and nutrition articles for the popular website naturalnews.com and was a founding member and moderator of nutritioncircle.org, a nutrition forum for healthcare professionals and students. She is a member of the American Dietetic Association and supports the non-profit organization Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG) of North America as a member.
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Hi there, just wanted to say, I enjoyed this blog post. It was practical.
Keep on posting!
Panera Bread brand has gluten free soup in it’s deli soup packaged line in the grocery store here.
Excellent flavor and full of ingredients like sweet potato and kale. Also our local gluten free shop makes chx veg and others for their freezer cases. They have the satisfying quality like bone broth soups and it is possible that is the technique that is used. Bones are available in their freezer meats section. So filling, like your self is thanking you for it.