Easy Beef Stew Over Rice Or Noodles

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 large onion, chopped into strings
• 1/2 fennel bulb, and stalk with leaves chopped
• 2 celery, stalks chopped
• 3 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• salt and pepper
• 3 lbs beef steaks (i use pot roast cut into bite size chunks but sirloin or 3 lbs stew meat, work just as well)
• salt and pepper, and flour to coat
• 1/3-1/2 cup sherry wine
• 1 (10 1/2 ounce) can beef consomme or 1 (10 1/2 ounce) can french onion soup
• 2 tablespoons olive oil

Recipe

• 1 saute veggies in the 2 tb olive oil and a little salt and pepper in a larege pan until soft (10 mins) -
• 2 remove and set aside.
• 3 salt and pepper meat then sprinkle with flour to coat all sides.
• 4 brown meat well on all sides in 2 t olive oil about 10 minutes,
• 5 deglaze the pan with the sherry- getting up all the bits,
• 6 add soup and vegetables and stir until bubbly.
• 7 serve over rice or egg noodles with green salad.