Beef Bourguignon-Eating for your Cycle
Beef Bourguignon is one of the simplest and most satisfying recipes I've made to date. The ease of ingredients and skill level is low, but the flavor is pure heaven. This hottie, is nearly a set and it forget it moment, and what makes me so damn happy is that it's just the ticket for the Menstrual phase of my cycle. Easy, big flavor, great for hosting, good for my hormonal health during my menstrual phase? I'll take it! Simple ingredients is all you need. If you plan on dilly dallying around the house or having people over for dinner on a cozy evening, Beef Bourguignon is the dish for you.
During my menstrual phase, I like to eat beef because its high in iron. I'm still learning so much about eating for my cycle but what makes sense is the beef helps restore iron and zinc. Because we're losing blood during that part of our cycles the restoration of those can also help use to be less tired.
Eating for my cycle is such a fun journey and if you want more recipes for your menstrual phase, here are my seed cycling friendly Flax and Pumpkin Seed Berry Bars.
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Ingredients
- chuck roast
- onions
- Tomato paste
- flour
- red wine
- carrots
- button mushrooms
- butter
- beef bullion
- garlic
- Fresh herbs
- Parsley
- Water
See recipe card for quantities.
Instructions
- Cut chuck roast into 1 inch square cubes and pat dry. Add salt and pepper. Preheat oven to 325°F
- Brown the chuck roast in Dutch oven on stove top and remove beef from pan in oil.
- Sauté onions, carrots, and garlic until onions are lightly browned add flour and mix cooking for a couple mins. Add salt and pepper. Add beef, beef broth, wine, tomato paste, and fresh herbs. Scrape the bottom of the pan to get all of the brown bits into the liquid.
- Bring to a simmer, cover, and braise in a 325°F oven for 2 hours. Meanwhile, sauté mushrooms in butter; stir them into the pot once the beef is fork-tender and cook for 15 minutes more.
Hint: Use a red wine you'd actually drink. usually a Pino Noir is great but I used a Malbec for this one because I had some leftover. Turned a delicious.
Substitutions
If you know how to make the recipe fit a certain diet, let the reader know here. Don't fake it - only provide guidance on topics you have actual experience with.
- Wine - Use whatever red wine you have on hand, but generally speaking, use a wine you'd drink.
- Onion - a lot of folks use pearl onions, but i didn't want to. I had yellow onions.
- Gluten Free - I needed to make this one GF for a guest, but I didn't have any GF flour on hand, so I just didn't use any thickener. It tasted incredible and was a thinner sauce.
Equipment
- Dutch oven
- stove top
- Knife
Storage
Store in an airtight container for up to a week. Freezing wasn't tested, I'm sure it would be a delight.
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Beef Bourguignon-Eating for your Cycle
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Cut chuck roast into 1 inch square cubes and pat dry. Add salt and pepper.
- Preheat oven to 250F
- Brown the chuck roast in a dutch oven on the stove top
- Remove beef from pan in oil.
- Sauté onions, carrots, and garlic until onions are lightly browned
- add flour to veg and saute for 2mins.
- Add beef, beef broth, wine, tomato paste, salt and pepper, and fresh herbs.
- Bring this to a simmer and put a tight fitting lid on. Place is the oven for 2 hours.
- While the cooks, sauté mushrooms in butter
- After meat and veg cook for 2 hours add mushrooms.
- Cook for 15 more mins.
