Carne Guisada (Mexican Beef Stew)
If you're looking for a delicious and easy Mexican beef stew recipe, then you'll love this recipe! This stew is perfect for a winter day and it doesn't require any heavy cream or cheese – just easy to make and fresh ingredients and a beautifull Dutch oven to cook it in.It's the Ancient Beef Stew version loved around the world with a touch of Mexican Flavor straight out of the Dutch Oven
Equipment
Ingredients
Beef Stew
- 700 grams flat iron steak cubed
- 3 cloves of garlic sliced
- 2 white onions diced
- 1 red bell pepper diced
- 1 yellow bell pepper diced
- 2 roma tomatoes diced
- 2 potatoes diced
- 50 grams butter
- 4 tbsp flour
- 500 ml beef broth
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1 tbsp cumin powder
Homemade Tortilla
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- ¾ cup lard
- 1 cup water
Instructions
Beef Stew
- Slice up up the flat iron steak into thumb sized cubes.
- Slice the onion, garlic, bell peppers, tomatoes and potatoes.
- Fire up your BBQ and heat up your Dutch Oven
- Let a stick of butter melt.
- Immedialty add the beef as well and brown the outside.
- Put the garlic and onion in and let it soften up for a minute.
- Add 4 tbsp of flour.
- Let the flour brown up.
- Add beef broth.
- Add the rest of the veggies and potatoes and let it simmer for at least 2 hours with the lit on top.
- Bring up to flavor with cumin powder and salt and taste test it untill right.
Homemade Tortilla
- Add flour to a deep tray followed by the baking powder.
- Add around ¾ cup of lard from beef fat or pork fat and start kneading the flour together with the lard untill it turns grainy.
- Slowly add little bits of water while continueing working your flour until it gets to a dough like consistency. In the end you used about 1 cup of water.
- Pit everything on a table and start kneading it more roughly with your own body weight and the palm of your hands.
- Take a goldball size piece of dough and roll it out with a roller.
- Warm up a cast iron pan and sear your tortilla while flipping it every 15 seconds or so.
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Nutrition
Calories: 467kcalCarbohydrates: 56gProtein: 25gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 71mgSodium: 1397mgPotassium: 753mgFiber: 4gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 971IUVitamin C: 63mgCalcium: 144mgIron: 6mg
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