BEEF IN GUINNESS.

Ingredients....1.5 kg of chuck steak, cut in 3 cm pieces, cracked black pepper to taste, 1/4 cup of plain flour, 1/4 cup of canola oil/ rice bran oil, 4 onions cut into wedges, 1 tbs of dried thyme leaves / 1/4 cup of fresh thyme leaves, 500 ml of Guinness stout, 250 ml of beef stock, 1/4 cup of tomato paste, 60 ml of Worcestershire sauce, 4 small parsnips, trimmed and quartered, mashed potato/ sweet mashed potato, if you desire. Preheat your oven to 180 deg C. Heat 1 tbs of the oil in a large oven proof saucepan with a lid over a medium heat. Add 1/2 of the beef, turning occasionally until browned. Transfer to a bowl and repeat with the remaining oil and remaining beef and add to the sealed beef in the bowl. Add the remaining oil and onion to the pot/ saucepan, cook until tender, stirring occasionally. Finally return the beef to the saucepan/ pot with the thyme, Guinness, stock, tomato paste, and Worcestershire sauce. Increase the heat to high and bring to the boil. cover with the lid and cook in the oven for 1 hour or until the meat is tender. Add the parsnips and cook for a further 45 minutes. Serve with mashed potato / mashed sweet potato.