Beef And Red Wine Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb lean stewing beef, cubed
1 tablespoon flour
20 white pearl onions, peeled (or 1 lg. onion chopped)
4 large shallots, peeled
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 (1 large) package mushroom, sliced
2 teaspoons olive oil
40 ounces water
6 knorr beef bouillon cubes
1 1/2 cups red wine
15 ounces tomato sauce
2 carrots, diced
2 celery ribs, diced
1/2 cup pearl barley
salt
pepper

Preparation

coat beef cubes lightly with flour.
in a large stock pot saute beef, shallots, onions, mushrooms and garlictill beef is browned and onion is tender.
add remaining ingredients and simmer till barley is tender.