Slow Cooker Short Ribs with Red Wine

🧂 Ingredients

• 5 slices bacon

  finely chopped
• 8 pounds bone-in short ribs

  or 4 pounds boneless beef chuck cut into 2-inch cubes
• 2 cups red cooking wine
• 2 cups beef stock
• ½ cup tomato sauce
• ¼ cup gluten free soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons gluten free flour
• 3 garlic cloves

  whole
• 1 tablespoon dried thyme
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 white onion

  quartered
• 5 medium carrots

  cut into 3-inch sections
• 8 oz fresh mushrooms

  sliced

Instructions

• 1 In a large skillet cook bacon over medium-high heat until crisp. Put bacon in
  slow cooker.
• 2 Salt and pepper the beef and add to the skillet and sear on each side for 5
  minutes. (DO NOT TOUCH IT during those 5 minutes) Transfer beef to the slow
  cooker.
• 3 Add carrots and onions to the skillet and brown them in skillet for 5 minutes.
• 4 Stir in 2 Tablespoons of gluten free flour and pour 1 cup of wine. Deglaze pan,
  scraping skillet to get all the brown bits on the pan.
• 5 Add veggies from skillet to slow cooker on top of beef.
• 6 Top with mushrooms and garlic cloves.
• 7 In a separate bowl, mix beef broth, tomato sauce, gluten free soy sauce, thyme,
  and bay leaf. Pour into crockpot. Add 1 cup red wine to almost cover the beef.
• 8 Cook on low for 6-8 hours or high for 5 hours.
• 9 Prepare gravy as desired (see directions above).

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