Million Beef with Mashed Potatoes
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Million Beef is a simple, but delicious meal that both small and large love. The secret behind a good million beef is a good brown sauce, which the browned ground beef swims around in. Feel free to add a little extra love in the form of a few drops of Worcestershire sauce, a little redcurrant jelly or a teaspoon of gastrique.
Enjoy million beef with mashed potatoes and pickled beets.
Servings
: 4
people
Ingredients
2
onions
Oil for frying
600
g
ground beef
5
dl
beef or veal stock
1
tsp
dried thyme
2
bay leaves
2
tbsp
cornstarch
Food coloring
Optionally Worcestershire sauce, redcurrant jelly or gastrique
Pickled beets
Optionally fresh herbs for garnish, e.g. watercress
Salt and pepper
1
kg
baking potatoes or potatoes for mashing
50
g
butter
2
dl
milk
Salt
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Instructions
Million Beef
Step 1/5
Peel and chop the onion, and sauté them in oil in a pot until they are clear.
Step 2/5
Add the ground beef, and brown it over high heat.
Step 3/5
Add stock, thyme and bay leaves to the pot, bring it to a boil, and let it simmer for 15 minutes.
Step 4/5
Thicken with cornstarch stirred out in water, add a few drops of food coloring, and taste if necessary with Worcestershire sauce, redcurrant jelly or gastrique as well as salt and pepper.
Step 5/5
Serve with mashed potatoes, pickled beets and optionally fresh herbs.
Mashed Potatoes
Step 1/4
Peel the potatoes, cut them into chunks, and cook them in unsalted water until tender.
Step 2/4
Mash the potatoes with a potato masher or an electric whisk.
Step 3/4
Let the butter melt in the warm mash, and then add milk until the mash has the desired consistency.
Step 4/4
Season to taste with salt.
