"Beef" and Guinness Stew

This stew was made for a St. Patrick's day party we attended.  It was a big hit!  I have never cooked with Guinness, but it gave the stew a great flavor and the seitan really took on the flavors of the veggies.

For the seitan I use "Seitan Quick Mix" by Harvest Direct.  It is a dry 

mix and all you have to do is add water and cook!  It is an amazing time saver.  Maybe at some point I will do a from scratch seitan on the blog.

Ingredients:

• 16 oz of seitan, either prepared from dry mix or store bought

• 3 tbsp olive oil

• 3 tbsp vegan butter

• 2 medium onions chopped

• 3 medium carrots chopped

• 3 medium potatoes in 1' pieces

• 2 medium portobello mushrooms 

• 4 cloves garlic either minced or pressed

• 23 oz Guinness (what I did here was buy two 12 oz and take a sip out of one to make it 23, if 

you prefer you can just put the entire 24 oz in as well)  :)

• 3 cups of ve

getable broth

• 1 tbsp flower

• 1 stalk of fresh rosemary chopped

• salt and pepper to taste

Preparation:

First Sautee seitan in the olive oil and a touch of pepper if desired

In a separate pot (this will be the pot that you cook the stew i

n so make it pretty large) with the butter sauté the onions for about 3 to 4 minutes until tender add garlic, mushrooms, potatoes,carrots and seitan.  Reduce heat and add the 3 cups of vegetable

broth stir well, add the flower and rosemary then slowly add the Guinness.  Keep this on low heat stirring occasionally for 90 to 100 minutes.  You will know its done when the stew thickens.  If it gets to thick feel free to add more veggie broth.

(this is with the seitan just added)