Everybody who works in or around the beer business has been finding new ways to put beer into food. I myself but beer into chili, but I usually just toss in a cheap macro since it can't overcome the overwhelming heat of my chile selection.
On the more professional side of the spectrum is Justin O'Connor, Executive Chef of Guinness Storehouse, the public touring facility and restaurant for the Guinness brewery at St. James Gate, Dublin. Guinness' PR firm in the US has offered some recipes from Justin for the holidays.
For the main course, a dark Guinness bread to use as turkey stuffing:
Ingredients for one loaf
- 600g (5 cup) Whole meal flour (Graham or whole wheat flour)
- 150g (1 1/4 cup) Plain Flour
- 75g (about 5/8 cup) Oatmeal
- 2.5 teaspoons of Bread soda (baking soda)
- 1 teaspoon of Salt
- 2.5 tablespoons of brown sugar
- 40g (3 tablespoons) Butter
- 480ml (2 cups) Milk
- 200ml (7/8 cups) Black treacle (may substitute corn syrup or molasses)
- 1/2 Pint Draught Guinness (the can with the Widget)
Mix butter with all dry ingredients until butter gets the consistency of breadcrumbs, add the milk, black treacle and the Guinness, and mix really well. Bake for 40 - 45 minutes at 170°C (335°F).
Cook the Guinness bread a day in advance of cooking the turkey, and run the bread through a food processer to make the crumb.
Roast Turkey & Guinness Bread Stuffing
- 5-6 cloves of garlic
- Bunch of fresh rosemary
- Bunch of fresh thyme
- Large half of an onion
- Pound of butter
- Turkey
Inside the cavity of the turkey, place 5-6 cloves of garlic, a bunch of fresh rosemary & thyme and a large onion halved. Cook your turkey to the desired time depending on the weight of the bird.
Melt a pound of butter and slowly sweat off 2 small onions finely diced without colouring with some fresh Thyme and parsley.
Add the Guinness bread crumbs to the butter and place in a small roasting tray. When the turkey is cooked add some of the cooking juices to the stuffing, making sure the mix is moist and return to the oven on a low temperature for ½ hour and serve with the Roast Turkey.
What would go well with this on our plate? Next time, mashed potatoes with Guinness gravy.
You can see more recipes in action at the Guinness Storehouse' YouTube Channel.
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