Marinated braised beef with bread dumplings

Ingredients for 4 people:

• LAWA bread dumplings
• 500 g beef
• 4 cloves
• 2 bay leaves
• Salt
• Pepper
• Vinegar
• ½ gingerbread
• 2 onions
• Sugar
• Sunflower oil
• Butter
• 1 L water

Method:

1. Preparing the meat
   Dice the onions and sauté in a pot of oil and butter. Season the meat with salt, pepper and sugar, add to the onions, sear the entire mixture, then deglaze with water. Add the cloves, a dash of vinegar and the bay leaf, and leave it all to reduce for at least 50 minutes. Remove the meat, run the sauce through a sieve, bring the entire mixture to the boil again, and bind with the gingerbread. Season to taste if necessary with salt, pepper, another dash of vinegar and a pinch of sugar.
2. Preparing the bread dumplings
   Place a sieve over a pot filled approx. 1/3 with boiling water. Place the bread dumplings in the sieve without them touching the water, and leave to steam in the closed pot for approx. 5 minutes.

Serve with red cabbage if desired.