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Aromatic Beef & Vegetable Casserole Recipe
by Ramón Farrugia

Aromatic Beef & Vegetable Casserole

This aromatic casserole is guaranteed to make your taste buds work. It is sweet, tart with a hot kick but no flavour overpowers the other. It is just perfect. The vegetables are sweet ones like sweet potato and butternut squash although swede is quite peppery sometimes. I created this dish as I went through my herb & spice pantry which my awesome wife sorted for me lately. It seems that whenever I go to find something there I never do so she made sure that everything is sorted and easy to find. Oh, I'm so messy!! Anyway, give this casserole a go as something new and different from the norm. You can replace butternut squash with pumpkin as well. You will need...

Rating: 5/5
Avg. 5/5 1 vote
Prep time: United Kingdom British
Cook time: Servings: 6

Goes Well With: buttery mashed potatoes

Ingredients

  • 800g diced beef
  • ½ large butternut squash, diced
  • 1 sweet potato, diced
  • ½ swede, diced
  • 1 large onion, roughly chopped
  • 3 celery stalks, chopped
  • 2 tbsp chopped parsley
  • 1 piece cinnamon stick
  • 2 inch piece liquorice root
  • 1 black cardamom pod, crushed
  • 1 ½ teaspoons hot paprika
  • 1 red chilli, chopped
  • 500ml beef stock
  • 500ml water

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 180 deg C.
  2. Heat oil in a cast iron skillet and add beef. Cook until brown.
  3. Add vegetables, parsley, liquorice, cardamom, cinnamon & hot paprika and stir well.
  4. Add stock & water, stir again.
  5. Cover and put in oven for 3 hours.
  6. Serve with mashed potatoes and extra chopped parsley.
  7. Enjoy!!