Guinness Braised Beef and Roast Potatoes

Guinness Braised Beef and Roast Potatoes. Melt in your mouth tender braised beef in a rich mushroom and stout beer gravy, served over crispy, perfectly roasted potatoes. An ultimate comfort food meal. Guiness Braised Beef and Roasted Potatoes Well, let’s face it, it’s late November and with Christmas barely a month away we have to face the fact that winter is here. I’m not a winter weather person and Spouse certainly is not either. (Originally published Nov 2015) If we didn’t have kids still in school or pesky details like work schedules to contend with, we’d probably migrate south to escape the whole season, like so many other Snowbirds from Canada do. Perhaps one day, when Spouse finally retires, Rock Recipes will have a winter home in South Georgia or Florida. 😉 A winter necessity. Winter comfort food is one of the necessary sustaining elements for all us cold weather dwellers. Last week I cooked up a humdinger of a great example. I’ve long touted the virtues of a perfectly roasted potato as one of the greatest comfort foods of all time. I like to use Russets for roasted potatoes because of their fluffy centres. I like to roast heads of garlic with the potatoes which adds more flavour to them. The soft garlic is also delicious to serve with the potatoes. You’ll have to take the garlic head out before the potatoes are done or they will be over cooked and burnt. Are you a roasted potato convert? You’ll never eat another boiled potato again! Perfectly crispy roast potatoes with a fluffy light, steaming interior, served with sticky roasted garlic and a dollop of sour cream is my favourite roast dinner side dish of all time. It just can’t be beat. How to make Perfect English Style Roasted Potatoes We love roast potatoes so much at our house that we never have plain boiled potatoes any more. Even when making a winter stew, I will add all of the other vegetables to the stew but roast potatoes to serve on the side. That is where the idea for this Guinness braised beef came from. Chuck roast (blade roast) was on sale at the market last week so I bought a large one with the intention of making a pot roast. I like to use Chuck/Blade roast for a pot roast or braising. However, a stop on the way home to pick up a bottle of wine changed the plan when I passed a display of Guinness Stout Beer at the liquor store. Keeping it local I’ve used local stout beer in a great winter stew recipe before as well as for fantastic braised beef ribs. We just love the deep rich flavour that it gives to the gravy. I ditched the pot roast idea, grabbed a couple of pint cans (one for the gravy and one for me while the beef cooked). I headed home to get this beef in the oven for the afternoon while I relaxed and watched movies. Who knows, I might even have sneaked in a little nap after my pint before waking up to this delicious dinner being served. I highly recommend it as an ultimate wake up call for Sunday supper. 😀 Use any mushroom you like or a combination of two or more. For more tried and true recipes, check out this collection of our 25 Most Popular Recipes since Rock Recipes began back in 2007.   Like this Guinness Braised Beef and Roast Potatoes recipe? You’ll find hundreds of other great ideas in our Slow Cooked Sundays Category and even more in our Chicken Recipes Category. It’s easy to keep up with the latest home style cooking & baking ideas from Rock Recipes. Be sure to follow Rock Recipes Facebook Page and follow us on Instagram.  Plus you’ll see daily recipe suggestions from decadent desserts to quick delicious weekday meals too.  You can also sign up for our FREE newsletter to know immediately when we add new recipes. You’ll also get weekly suggestions for great family friendly  meals and desserts too! Rock Recipes a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Our product recommendations are almost exclusively for those we currently use or have used in the past.   Visit my Amazon Store for my favourite kitchen gadgets and appliances, plus recommendations from my personal cookbook collection. 181shares 21 152 8