Slow Cooked Beef Stew With Onions

Ingredients

• Beef, cut into small neat pieces
• Onions, minced finely
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 cloves
• Pepper
• Salt
• Water
• Cornflour (or mustard, for thickening)

Method

1. 1 Cut beef into small pieces and place in a pot with minced onions, bay leaves, cloves, pepper, and salt.
2. 2 Add enough water to cover the meat and simmer gently for three hours.
3. 3 Thicken the sauce by stirring in cornflour mixed with a little cold water, or use mustard to taste.