This delicious italian beef casserole with cannellini beans has all the flavours of the Mediterranean in one casserole dish. Perfect for a cold winters night with a creamy mash or maybe for Sunday lunch with the family!
Function: Circo Therm®
Italian Beef Casserole with Cannellini Beans
Ingredients
1kg oyster blade steak, cut into 2.5cm pieces
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup oil
2 large onions, chopped
100g bacon, diced
1 x 400g can cherry tomatoes
140g can tomato paste
1/2 cup port
15g dried porcini mushrooms, soaked in 1 cup boiling water
4 cloves garlic, crushed
6 sprigs fresh thyme
2 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano
Salt and pepper, to taste
1 x 400g can cannellini beans, rinsed and drained
1 cup flat leaf parsley leaves
Mashed potato or polenta, to serve
Steamed greens, to serve
Method
To begin your Italian Beef Casserole with Cannellini Beans, preheat oven to 160°C CircoTherm®.
Toss the beef in the flour to coat then shake off the excess. Heat a little of the oil in a non stick fry pan and brown the meat quickly in batches on induction setting 7 or 8. Place the browned meat into a medium sized casserole dish.
Heat the remaining oil in the fry pan and sauté the onion and bacon for 3 minutes on induction setting 6. Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, port and water drained from the mushrooms. Chop the mushrooms finely and add to the pan with the garlic and herbs. Bring to the boil on induction setting 9 then pour the mixture over the beef.
Cover the casserole dish with its lid and bake for 1 hour and 40 minutes then add the beans and cook a further 10 minutes or until the meat is tender. Stir through the parsley leaves then season to taste.
Spoon the Italian Beef Casserole with cannellini beans into serving bowls with mash and steamed greens. Serve immediately
Notes
Authors Bio
As an experienced home economist and Food Designer Trish has worked over the span of her career in the food and home appliance industry as a demonstrator, teacher, recipe developer and food stylist. For more than 20 years she worked for and later managed the test kitchen for a large FMCG company working on some of Australia’s most trusted and iconic food brands, developing recipes and usages for their products as well as styling mouth watering images for cookbooks and websites. She has also appeared regularly as a brand ambassador on a number of well loved television cooking shows.