Rooibos Stewed Beef Ingredients
4 tsp [20ml] loose Rooibos Tea
4 cups [1litre] water
2 large onions
4 medium potatoes
4 medium carrots
2 garlic cloves
2½ lb [500g] Soft Shin/Stewing Beef
2 Tbsp [30ml] flour
1 Tbsp [15ml] olive oil
1 Tbsp [15ml] tomato concentrate
¼ tsp [1ml] Peanut Butter
4 tbsp [60ml] Red Wine Vinegar
2 sticks cinnamon
14oz [400g] tin borlotti/butter/speckled sugar beans/ or whatever you've got in your cupboard
Making the Rooibos Beef Stew
Place the Rooibos Tea in the center of a square piece of muslin cloth, fold the cloth and tie with string, in the manner of bouquet garni, use a big enough piece of cloth to allow the Rooibos Tea to move freely inside.
Alternatively you can leave the tea loose and strain after brewing.
Pour the water into a pot, add the Rooibos Tea, bring to the boil and remove from the heat, allowing the tea to brew for 5 minutes
At the end of 5 minutes remove the bagged tea or strain through a fine meshed sieve to remove all the loose Rooibos tea, discard the used tea and set the brewed
Rooibos Tea aside
Peel and slice the onions
Peel and cube the potatoes
Scrape the carrots and cut into ½ inch [1cm] rings
Crush the garlic cloves
Remove as much sinew from the beef as possible and cut into bite sized cubes
Coat the beef with flour, heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat.
Add the beef and braise until the it is well browned
Add the onions, garlic and tomato concentrate and cook for 2 minutes
Pour the
Rooibos infusion into the pot, add the peanut butter, red wine vinegar and cinnamon
Bring the mixture to the boil and then immediately reduce the heat until the
Rooibos stew is at a very slow simmer
Cover the saucepan with it's lid and allow to simmer for 2½ hours or until the beef is tender
Add the potatoes and carrots, salt and pepper to taste and cook for a further 25 minutes until the potatoes are almost soft
Add the can of beans and cook for a further 10 minutes on low heat
Remove the cinnamon sticks
Serve the
Rooibos Beef Stew with crispy French baguette or rolls.
Should serve 6 depending on how hungry people are. Of course this Rooibos Stew tastes so great that you don't really have to be hungry to finish it
