This is a very filling warming casserole from my granny, which uses a few simple ingredients and sauces them with pantry staples you probably already have.

I probably should have posted this earlier when the weather was seriously cold.

Ingredients:

1kg meat (gravy beef, chuck steak, steak)

Carrots

Onions

1 spoonful of olive oil (can be substituted with canola, sunflower or vegetable oil)

Knob of butter (optional)

Sauce:

5-6 forkfuls of plain flour or cornflour

1/2 tsp black pepper (or less as preferred - which I did! That's a lot of pepper)

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp sugar

1/2 tsp powdered mustard (or less as preferred - which I did! That's a lot of mustard powder and it can be hot)

3 large spoonfuls of vinegar

2 large spoonfuls of Worcestershire sauce

1/4 cup tomato sauce

Method:

Dice meat (discard fat). Put into frying pan with olive oil and butter. Brown meat then put into casserole dish.

Peel carrots and onions then slice both into rounds. Add to the casserole dish.

Make sauce:

Into a mug put flour, pepper, salt, sugar and mustard powder (dry ingredients). Then add vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, and tomato sauce. Mix well then add to casserole dish.

Stir and just cover everything with water. Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for about 30 minutes.

Serve with mashed potatoes.