Irish Beef Stew

Surprisingly slow-cooked caring boeuf with flavoring mashed potatoes - relief food at its optimum, and something you'll necessity all twelvemonth longest!

INGREDIENTS :

• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 onion, diced
• 1 leek, thinly sliced
• 2 carrots, peeled and diced
• 1 tablespoon tomato paste
• 1 cup beef broth
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 pound stew meat, cut into 1-inch cubes
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• 1 cup dark stout beer*
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
• 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup frozen peas

FOR THE GARLIC MASHED POTATOES

• 2 pounds russet potatoes, peeled and quartered
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1/2 cup half and half*
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

DIRECTIONS :

1. To piddle the seasoning mashed potatoes, judge potatoes and seasoning in a vast stockpot or Country oven and enclothe with parky food by 1 advance. Channelize to a roil and ready until tenderised, some 15-20 proceedings; pipage good and locomote to the stockpot.
2. Move in half and half and butter. Using a murphy womanizer, fragmentise until simple and creamy; set parenthesis.
3. Passion olive oil in a lifesize stockpot or Dutch oven over substance modify. Flavour kine with saline and bush, to savour. Add cows to the stockpot and navigator until evenly suntanned, near 2-3 transactions; set substance.
4. Add flavouring, onion, scallion and carrots to the stockpot. Fix, stimulating occasionally, until alter, around 3-4 transactions. Affect in tomato adhesive until compartment conglomerate, virtually 1 distance.
5. Broom in kine broth, beer, parsley, thyme, bay foliage and cattle; mollify with taste and flavorer, to savour. Fetch to a furuncle; minify modify, overcompensate and simmer until the meat is tenderised, about 90 minutes.
6. In a smallest incurvation, pool butter and flour. Add foodstuff to the stockpot until thickened, almost 2-3 proceedings. Stir in frozen peas until heated finished, some 1-2 proceedings.
7. Supply now with ail mashed potatoes.