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White Plate Filled with Beef Bourguignon Next to a Bread

Beef Bourguignon

Enjoy the flavours of France with this well-known, traditional French recipe.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Course Main Course
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

  • 2-3 rashers bacon (diced)
  • 1 cup Mushrooms (sliced)
  • 1 Onion (diced)
  • 2 Cloves garlic (diced)
  • 1.5 kg beef (diced)
  • 2 Tbs Tomato paste
  • 2 carrots peeled and chopped into 3cm lengths
  • 1 sprig thyme (or 1 tsp dried thyme)
  • 2 tsp heaped tsp Plain flour
  • 1 cup Red Wine
  • 1 1/2 cup beef stock

Instructions
 

  • Heat Pressure Cooker over medium heat and add olive oil.
  • Sauté bacon, mushrooms, onion and garlic for 5 minutes.
  • Combine some of the flour (only enough to coat all the beef well), beef, salt and pepper in a plastic bag and shake. Remove the beef from the bag, leaving all excess flour in the bag.
  • Turn heat to high. Add beef (without excess flour from bag) and stir for 2 minutes to caramelise.
  • Stir through remaining ingredients. Bring to the boil to cook off the alcohol.
  • Close and lock Pressure Cooker and bring to pressure on medium/high heat using setting 2 (Pressure is reached when the red Pressure Indicator has risen)
  • Once at pressure, turn down the heat as low as possible whist maintaining at pressure, and cook for 30 minutes. (If cooked on excessive heat the beef may burn.)
  • Slow release pressure by removing from heat and allowing to cool down naturally. This will take approximately 10 minutes. Pressure has been released when the red pressure indicator has dropped.
  • Serve with mashed potato or rice.

Notes

The beef is cooked after 30 minutes but melt-in-the-mouth after 45 minutes.