Recipe - Beef Bourguignonne Oven Baked Or Microwave

2 pound Bonless beef chuck *
One fourth cup Unbleached allpurpose flour
1 1/3 cup Sliced carrots
14 One half ounce (1 cn) tomatoes **
1 Med. bay leaf
1 Env. soup mix ***
One half cup Red wine
8 ounce Mushrooms ****
8 ounce Medium or broad egg noodles

* Bonless chuck should be cut into 1inch cubes as with stew meat.

** Tomatoes should be whole peeled tomatoes, undrained and chopped.

*** Choose either Onion or Beefy Onion soup mix.

**** Use 1 cn of cut or sliced up mushrooms or slice up 8 ozs of fresh mushrooms.

Preheat Oven to 400 degrees F. In 2quart casserole, toss beef with flour,
then bake uncovered 20 minutes. Add carrots, tomatoes, and bay leaf, then
add beefy onion recipe soup mix blended with wine. Bake, covered, 1 1/2
hours or until beef is tender. Add mushrooms and bake covered an additional
10 minutes. Remove bay leaf. Meanwhile, cook noodles according to package
directions. To serve, arrange bourguignonne over noodles.

MICROWAVE DIRECTIONS: Toss beef with flour, set aside. In 2quart
casserole, combine tomatoes, bay leaf, and beefy onion recipe soup mix
blended with wine. Heat, covered, at HIGH (Full Power) 7 minutes, stirring
once. Add beef and carrots. Heat covered at DEFROST (30% FULL POWER),
stirring occasionally, 1 One fourth hours. Add mushrooms and heat covered at
DEFROST (30% FULL POWER), 30 minutes or until beef is tender. Remove bay
leaf. Let stand covered 5 minutes. Cook Noodles and serve as above.

FREEZING/REHEATING DIRECTIONS: Bourguignonne can be baked, then frozen.
Simply wrap covered casserole in heavyduty Aluminum Foil; freeze. To
reheat, unwrap and bake covered at 400 degrees F. stirring occasionally to
separate beef and vegetables, 1 hour. OR, Microwave at HIGH (Full Power)
stirring occasionally, 20 minutes or until heated through. Let stand
covered 5 minutes.
Posted to recipeludigest by jeryder@juno.com (Judy E Ryder) on Mar 03,
1998