Braised Steak With Buttery Mushrooms

Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• olive oil
• 1 kg topside beef, rolled
• 1 onion, sliced
• 4 garlic cloves, crushed
• 4 sprigs fresh thyme
• 2 sprigs fresh oregano
• 2 bay leaves
• 1/2 cup dry red
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 teaspoon beef stock (concentrated, i use quite a dense paste, so adjust for taste and what you use.)
• 1/4 cup dry red , extra
• 2 1/2 teaspoons cornflour
• 500 -600 g mixed mushrooms (whatever is in season swiss brown, button, shitake, oyster, chanterelles etc..)
• 70 g butter
• 1 tablespoon fresh thyme, finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, finely chopped

Recipe

• 1 heat a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in a pan, add beef and cook, turning until browned all over. remove beef from pan and set aside, wipe pan clean add about a tablespoon more of oil, add onions and garlic and cooked until onions are soft.
• 2 add herbs, red , water and stock, stir, return beef to pan cook covered, turning beef once for two hours or until beef is tender.
• 3 discard herbs, strain liquid into sauce pan, keep onions to one side. turn heat up to medium high, add extra , mix a little water to cornflour and pour into sauce. stir until sauce boils and thickens.
• 4 buttery mushrooms.
• 5 i cut the mushrooms in different ways for presentation at the end. for example button mushrooms-halved, swiss brown quartered, shitake-sliced, oyster-halved, chanterelles-chopped. so adjust for what you can buy at the time.
• 6 heat butter in a pan, add mushrooms, stir until tender, stir in herbs.
• 7 to serve slice beef and place on serving platter with mushrooms and reserved onions.
• 8 i made this just for 2 and i bought a half a kilo of beef we are quite piggy with steak. this recipe will serve 4-5 depending on appetites. i also bought beef fillet as it is not expensive where i live, so the photo does look different, as it is thinner round than rolled topside.