Nourishing Beef Stew

Written By Leanne de Groot

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 TBSP Grass-fed organic ghee

  • 800g of Grass-fed beef (chuck or skirt or any stewing cut) chop in chunks

  • 3 yellow onions (Quercetin!) peeled and quartered

  • 2.5 TBSP of curry paste (see picture for the one I recommend)

  • 3 cups of chopped tomatoes

  • 1 large stalk of fresh lemongrass (bruised with a heavy object)

  • 3 whole star anise

  • 2 tbsp of Red Boat fish sauce (or no sugar or additives brand)

  • 1 cup of bone broth (see picture for the one I recommend)

  • 5 large organic carrots (chopped in large chunk circles - 2cm)

  • Optional 4 cloves of garlic (peeled and bruised)

Instructions:

I love my pressure cooker but you could easily alter this recipe to work in a slower cooker.

Put all the ghee in your pressure cooker and melt on “saute” then toss in your curry paste and garlic cloves (if using). stir for a 1 minute or 2.

Add half your chopped beef and stir around to coat in the ghee and curry spice paste, lightly cooking the outside of the chunks of meat. Remove this batch of meat and put the second batch in and repeat.

Take out the second batch of meat and add in tomatoes, and saute until getting coated and a little softer.

Add all other ingredients including your meat, stir everything around to fully combine and immerse all meat, carrot and onion under the liquid. Close your lid and cook on “manual” for 35 minutes - allowing the pressure cooker to let out it’s pressure without your assistance.

Enjoy with fresh basil leaves on top 🌀

Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

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