Slow Cooked Beef & Red Wine Ragout
- 1/4 cup oil
- 1 kg pickling onions, peeled and halved King Sooper's 1 lb For $0.99 thru 02/09
- 1 kg chuck steak or gravy beef, cut into chunks Safeway 1 lb For $5.99 thru 02/09
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1/3 cup tomato paste
- 2 cups beef stock Safeway 1 lb For $5.99 thru 02/09
- 1 cup red wine
- 125 g PHILADELPHIA Light Cream Cheese
- salt and pepper, to taste
- Cooked pasta, to serve
- HEAT half the oil in a large heavy based saucepan and cook the onions until browned.
- Set aside.
- Heat remaining oil and brown beef in batches.
- Set aside.
- ADD garlic and tomato paste and gently cook for 1 minute.
- Return beef to saucepan, add stock and wine and bring to the boil.
- Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally.
- Add onions and cook a further 20 minutes.
- WHISK together the PHILLY with some of the cooking liquid until smooth, add to the saucepan and simmer a further 10 minutes.
- Spoon onto serving plates with pasta.
- Serve immediately.
- HANDY TIP: If pickling onions are unavailable use small brown onions, cut into quarters.
oil, pickling onions, gravy beef, garlic, tomato paste, beef stock, red wine, cream cheese, salt, pasta
Taken from www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/slow-cooked-beef-red-wine-ragout-125661.aspx (may not work)