This is an AI-generated image.

Carbonade Flamande

Name: Carbonade Flamande
Total time: 180 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Belgium
Ingredients: 1kg Beef Shank; 500ml Dark Beer; 3 Onion; 2 Bread; 2 tbsp Mustard; 2 tbsp Brown sugar; 1 tbsp Vinegar; A pinch Thyme; 2 Bay leaf; 30g Butter; 2 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper

Main Dish

⏱ 180 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Beef braised in Belgian beer and thickened with mustard-spread bread — a sweet-and-sour Flemish stew.

📱 Open in Storage App

🚧 The Storage app is currently in development. Please check back soon.

📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Carbonade flamande is a traditional dish of Flanders in northern Belgium: beef slowly braised in dark Belgian beer. Bread spread with mustard is added and breaks down to thicken the sauce, which is finished sweet-and-sour with dark sugar and vinegar. The Belgian way is to eat it with fries.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At an Antwerp brasserie in winter, dark brown beer stew and fries arrive and diners toast with glasses of the same beer.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Beef Shank 1kg
Dark Beer 500ml
Onion 3
Bread 2
Mustard 2 tbsp
Brown sugar 2 tbsp
Vinegar 1 tbsp
Thyme A pinch
Bay leaf 2
Butter 30g
Salt 2 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the beef into large pieces and season with salt and pepper.
Heat butter in a pot, brown the beef, and remove.
Sauté the sliced onions until amber, return the beef, and add the dark beer, thyme, and bay leaf.
Spread bread with mustard and float it in the pot, mustard side down.
Cover and simmer on low for 2½ hours; when the bread has dissolved, stir in the dark sugar and vinegar.
Season with salt and serve with fries.

← More Belgium recipes 🗺 Explore another country