Beef Bourguignon – Recipe. Serving 4 in 40 minutes for this hearty classic.

Ingredients

• 2 litres of good chicken stock
• 1 bottle of red wine
• 1 tsp tomato puree
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 1 carrot
• 1 sprig of thyme
• 100g smoked streaky bacon
• 75g butter
• 400g whole peeled shallots
• 100g baby button mushrooms
• 4 rump steaks 125g each (from your local butcher cut into generous sized cubes)
• Olive oil
• 2 slices of white bread
• 50g parsley chopped