Boeuf Bourguignon Slow Cooker Recipe: Best Home Style Comfort Food

By La Cuisinière | French Country Cuisine Recipes

Dec 26
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Boeuf Bourguignon Slow Cooker Recipe – During winter, I love to prepare easy Boeuf Bourguignon in the slow cooker.

It is always a huge hit with my kids and grand-kids!  Everyone eats in silence. No need to ask anyone if they would like second helpings!

While there are many recipes for pot roasts and beef stew (every chef has their own version). But just once – make Beef Bourguignon instead.

Tops The List Of Comfort Foods

Guess I am a little prejudiced in that I find this particular slow cooker recipe to be the best beef bourguignon!

As with many other one pot meals, there are endless variations on this recipe but to my mind – simple always tastes best.

Yesterday was the perfect day for a slow cooker meal. Busy all day long!

In other words, it is time to bring the slow cooker out of “storage” and set it on the kitchen counter. It’s officially crock pot season.

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Mashed Potatoes or Rice?

Traditional Beef Bourguignon is one of those recipes that delivers a huge flavor punch with a minimum of ingredients.

Serve the beef ladled on mashed potatoes, rice or straight up with a healthy serving of the freshest baguette you can find.

The idea here is to dunk pieces of country style bread in the rich gravy. Bread hot out of the oven always tastes incredibly good.


Traditional Boeuf Bourguignon Slow Cooker & Comfort Food

With a few tweaks, the wine braised beef Bouguignon is easily be prepared in any slow cooker.

To add flavor, I always sauté or brown the meat before adding it to the slow cooker.  Sautéeing adds a layer of flavor.  Deglaze the pan with broth, wine or even water to add yet another layer.


Vary The Recipe Ingredients

You can also vary the ingredients to a certain extent.

Don’t add just any ingredient but substitute a similar ingredient if you cannot find exactly what you need.

In this recipe I used yellow onions because that’s what I had in the pantry but you could use pearl onions. I would use pearl onions when making this dish for company.

Yes, they make for better plating but they’re a pain to peel! You will find these beauties at Harris Teeter® in the Shops at County Center but also at Wegmans® Potomac.

Pearl onions can also be found in jars or canned although they will not have the same flavor quotient as fresh or frozen pearl onions.

 Melissa’s Assorted Pearl Onions(10 oz)

I happened to find very fresh shiitake mushrooms but Julia Child used wild mushrooms in her famous recipe.

Why not sliced mushrooms instead of caps? Don’t allow a recipe ingredient stop you from making this your recipe. As long as the recipe’s basic flavor components are there… a sliced mushroom is still a mushroom!

 McCall’s Cooking School Recipe Card: Meat 14 – Beef Bourguignon (Replacement McCall’s Recipage or Recipe Card For 3-Ring Binders)McCall's Cooking School Recipe Card: Meat 14 - Beef Bourguignon (Replacement McCall's Recipage or Recipe Card For 3-Ring Binders)

Ventrèche Versus Bacon

Ventrèche is difficult to find unless you look in a high end food market and even then the odds are against finding it.  

Bits of Pancetta work well but lean bacon would work as well.

@studiograndouest - French specialty pork delicatessen and bacon called ventreche at butcher

I use a lot of fresh garlic in my cooking and this is one recipe where garlic adds intense flavor.

You might want to try jumbo organic garlic. It packs a punch!

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