Ingredients:
2 sticks of celery
2 medium onions
2 carrots chopped
5 tablespoon olive oil
3 fresh bay leaves
500g beef
1 heaped tablespoon plain flour
400g chopped tomatoes
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper as per taste.
Method:
Preheat your oven to 180ºC, Trim the ends off your celery and roughly chop the sticks well. Peel and roughly chop the onions. Peel the carrots, slice lengthways and roughly chop. Put all the vegetables and the bay leaves into the pan with 2 lugs of olive oil and fry for 10 minutes. Add your meat and flour in it. Pour in the booze and tinned tomatoes and give it a good stir, then season with a teaspoon of sea salt if you like. Bring to the boil and put the lid on and either simmer slowly on your hob or cook in an oven for 3 hours. Remove the lid for the final half hour of simmering or cooking. Then meat should be tender and delicious. Remove the bay leaves before serving. Its Up to you, you can add some lovely dumplings to it
