Zoervleisch | Sour beef stew

Servings

4-6

Prep Time

10 minutes

Cook Time

3.30 hours

Cuisine

Dutch

Super simple. Very tasty! A classic out of Limburg (a province in the Netherlands). Originally made with horse meat, but beef will work perfectly! 

Zoervleisch | Sour beef stew

Ingredients

  • 1 kg beef chuck or horse meat
  • 200 ml vinegar
  • 600 ml water
  • 3 bae leaves
  • 1 clove
  • Butter
  • 500 gr onions
  • 4 tbsp apple syrup (appelstroop
  • 5 pieces ontbijtkoek (old fashioned gingerbread)
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 1.5 kg potatoes
  • Olive oil

Apple sauce

  • 1 kg apples
  • 75 ml water
  • 2 tbsp sugar (add more if you like to)
  • 1 lemon for the juice

Directions

  1. Slice your meat into big pieces
  2. Marinate the beef in a mixture of the water and vinegar and add the bae leaves and clove to it. Cover and let marinate for 24 hours (if possible!)
  3. Remove the meat from the marinate, but safe the marinate.
  4. Brown the meat in a pan with butter, remove the meat and brown the onions.
  5. Add back in the beef together with the apple syrup, gingerbread, salt and pepper. Stir and go in with the marinated, enough to cover all of the meat.
  6. Cover and let simmer, until the meat falls apart.
  7. If the sauce is not thick enough add a bit of cornstarch slurry to thicken.
  8. Wash and slice the potatoes into sticks
  9. Coat the potato sticks with olive oil, salt and pepper and bake in the oven at 200 degrees Celsius or 400 degrees Fahrenheit until golden and crispy
  10. Peel the apples and slice into small pieces.
  11. Add the apples to a pan together with the water, lemon juice and sugar. Bring to a boil and let simmer for 15 minutes
  12. When the apples are soft, blend them until a smooth consistency is reached!
  13. Serve the stew with the potatoes, apple sauce and mayonnaise