One pot meals

Slow-cooker beer and thyme beef cheeks

A great dinner party main for the colder months.
tray of cooked beef cheeks
6
30M
10H
10H 30M

Ingredients

Method

1.Peel onions, leaving root end intact. Combine onions with celery, carrots, thyme, beer, stock, paste, sauce, sugar and mustard in a 5-litre (20-cup) slow cooker. Add beef; turn to coat in mixture. Cook, covered, on low, about 9½ hours.
2.Discard thyme. Add beans to cooker; cook, covered, on low, for 30 minutes. Season to taste.
3.Serve beef sprinkled with extra fresh thyme, if you like. Serving suggestion: Creamy mashed potato or cheesy polenta.

Suitable to freeze at the end of step 2.

Tip: You will need 1 bunch of baby carrots. They may also be sold as ‘dutch’ carrots.

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