{"id":826,"date":"2019-10-10T15:07:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T15:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/?p=826"},"modified":"2019-10-10T15:07:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T15:07:02","slug":"beef-and-veg-casserole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/beef-and-veg-casserole\/uncategorized\/","title":{"rendered":"Beef And Veg Casserole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><br \/>\n2 celery sticks, thickly sliced<br \/>\n1 onion, chopped<br \/>\n2 really big carrots, halved lengthways then very chunkily sliced<br \/>\n5 bay leaves<br \/>\n2 thymesprigs, 1 whole and 1 leaves picked<br \/>\n1 tbsp vegetable oil<br \/>\n1 tbsp butter<br \/>\n2 tbsp plain flour<br \/>\n2 tbsp tomato pur\u00e9e<br \/>\n2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce<br \/>\n2 beef stock cubes, crumbled<br \/>\n850g stewing beef (featherblade or brisket works nicely), cut into nice large chunks<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbcgoodfood.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/recipe\/public\/user-collections\/my-colelction-image\/2015\/12\/recipe-image-legacy-id--890477_11.jpg?itok=aYnDFCNC\" alt=\"Beef &amp; vegetable casserole in a cast iron pot with wooden spoon\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method<\/strong><br \/>\nHeat oven to 160C\/140C fan\/gas 3 and put the kettle on.<\/p>\n<p>Put 2 thickly sliced celery sticks, 1 chopped onion, 2 chunkily sliced carrots, 5 bay leaves and 1 whole thyme sprig in a flameproof casserole dish with 1 tbsp vegetable oil and 1 tbsp butter.<\/p>\n<p>Soften for 10 mins, then stir in 2 tbsp plain flour until it doesn\u2019t look dusty anymore, followed by 2 tbsp tomato pur\u00e9e, 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce and 2 crumbled beef stock cubes.<\/p>\n<p>Gradually stir in 600ml hot water, then tip in 850g stewing beef and bring to a gentle simmer.<\/p>\n<p>Cover and put in the oven for 2hrs 30 mins, then uncover and cook for 30mins \u2013 1hr more until the meat is really tender and the sauce is thickened.<\/p>\n<p>Garnish with the picked leaves of the remaining thyme sprig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients 2 celery sticks, thickly sliced 1 onion, chopped 2 really big carrots, halved lengthways then very chunkily sliced 5 bay leaves 2 thymesprigs, 1 whole and 1 leaves picked 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 tbsp butter 2 tbsp plain flour 2 tbsp tomato pur\u00e9e 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce 2 beef stock cubes, crumbled 850g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[132,53,71,38],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-casserole","tag-food","tag-recipe","tag-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}