🇳🇱 How to Make Hachee

Craving Hachee? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Hachee at home, in about 3 hr, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 800g stewing beef, cubed
• 4 large onions, sliced
• 50g butter
• 3 tbsp plain flour
• 500ml beef stock
• 100ml vinegar or a splash of red wine vinegar
• 4 bay leaves, 6 cloves, 6 juniper berries
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 2 slices of gingerbread (ontbijtkoek), optional but traditional
• salt, black pepper

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Pat the beef completely dry and brown it hard in the butter in batches. Crowded, wet meat steams and hachee needs that crust.
2. Take the meat out and cook the onions in the same pot for 15 min until deeply soft and browning. There should be roughly as much onion as meat — this is an onion stew as much as a beef one.
3. Stir the flour in and cook it out for 2 min.
4. Return the beef, add the stock, vinegar, bay, cloves, juniper and sugar. The vinegar is what makes it hachee rather than generic beef stew.
5. Cover and simmer very low for 2½ hours. Do not let it boil.
6. In the last 20 min stir in the crumbled gingerbread to thicken and sweeten the gravy. Serve with boiled potatoes and red cabbage.