Slow cooker beef bourguignon recipe | Good Food

Ingredients

• 3 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 ½kg stewing or braising steak cut into small chunks
• 2 large onions chopped
• 2 carrots chopped
• 2 celery stalks chopped
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 thyme sprigs or rosemary sprigs
• 3 tbsp plain flour
• 750ml bottle red wine
• 1 beef stock cube
• 1 tsp caster sugar
• 2 tbsp tomato purée
• 100g unsmoked bacon lardons
• 6 small shallots or baby onions, halved or quartered
• 300g closed cup mushrooms halved or quartered
• mashed potatoes or crusty bread, to serve