🟧 NIX | Guinness Crockpot Beef Stew — 1.8 L Precision Edition 🍺🥩🔥

Frozen beef. Full Guinness. Zero effort. Pub-grade result.

This recipe is tuned exactly for your 1.8 L crockpot so it sits in the happy zone (over half full), thickens properly, and yields:

🥣 1 very large, glorious bowl🥣🥣 or 2 generous portions

The beef goes in frozen. The Guinness goes in whole. The crockpot does the work.

🛒 Ingredients

• 🧊 250 g frozen diced beef (one frozen block)

• 🍺 440 ml Guinness (the entire can)

• 🧅 180 g onion, chopped

• 🥕 160 g carrots, sliced

• 🥔 350 g potatoes, cubed

• 🧄 2 cloves garlic, crushed

• 🍅 1 tbsp tomato purée

• 🌿 1 tsp mixed herbs

• 🧂 1 tsp salt

• ⚫ 1 tsp black pepper

• 🧉 1 beef Oxo cube

• 💧 180 ml boiling water

• 🌾 1½ tbsp strong flour

• 🧈 1 tbsp oil or butter

⚗️ The Flour Rule (important)

Mix the 1½ tbsp strong flour with a splash of Guinness to make a thin paste.This guarantees thick, glossy gravy. No clumps. No drama.

⏱️ The 90-Second Build

1. Onion, carrots, potatoes, garlic into the crockpot.

2. Place the frozen beef block on top.

3. Sprinkle salt, pepper, herbs over everything.

4. Crumble in the Oxo cube.

5. Stir tomato purée into the boiling water → pour in.

6. Add the flour paste.

7. Pour in the entire can of Guinness.

8. Add the oil or butter.

9. Lid on.

Do not stir.

Walk away.

🔥 Cooking

• LOW: 8 hours (best result)

• HIGH: 4½–5 hours

After 4 hours, give it one stir to break up the beef. Lid back on.

🧪 What’s Happening Inside

• Guinness tenderises the beef and builds deep roasted flavour

• Potato starch + flour + beef collagen = thick pub gravy

• Slow heat turns everything soft without you interfering

You are witnessing food chemistry while doing absolutely nothing.

🥣 Yield

You finish with about 1 litre of thick, dark stew.

Perfect for:

• 🥣 One huge comforting bowl

• 🥣🥣 Two generous portions

Even better the next day after the fridge.

🍞 Serving Move

Bowl. Buttered crusty bread. Sit down. No rushing.

This is slow food in the purest sense.

🏷️ NIX Stew Label

Deep, dark Guinness gravy. Melt-apart beef. Sweet vegetables. Thick, glossy pub-style stew that tastes like effort and smells like comfort.