Everyone likes beef stew, especially if it tastes like grandma's!
This is Beef Stew like Grandma used to make it with hearty chunks of meat, root vegetables, garlic and fresh herbs. And it’s so easy. Prep time is only 10 minutes and then the stew gently simmers all day in the slow cooker. Come home from a days work to delicious smells of the savory stew wafting through the kitchen. Open the lid on the slow cooker to an herby, savory broth brimming with bone-tender beef and rustic winter veggies.
What’s really comforting is that there’s nothing artificial, no preservatives or additives, in this beef stew. It’s a simple to prepare clean eating stew, with fresh, real ingredients that are delicious. You can feel good about feeding it to your family and yourself. It won’t break the diet or the bank, and the preparation is minimal for this nutrient-rich dish.
Slow Cooker Beef Stew can be garnished with chopped fresh parsley just prior to serving, if desired. Whole grain bakery bread is a delicious side.
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Slow Cooker Beef Stew
Ingredients
- 1 pound round steak 1 inch pieces
- 2 tablespoons olive oil flavored oil is wonderful to use: basil, rosemary, or garlic-chile pepper
- kosher or sea salt and pepper to taste
- 1 white onion large, chopped
- 4 teaspoons garlic minced
- 2 cups potatoes cut into 3/4 inch chunks
- 4 celery sticks cleaned and chopped
- 2 carrots peeled and chopped
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dried thyme or 1 tablespoon fresh thyme
- 3 bay leaves
- 2 3/4 cups beef broth low sodium, fat free
- 1/4 cup red wine (optional, beef broth, non-alcoholic wine, or grape juice)
- 14 1/2 ounce diced tomatoes can
Instructions
- Rub the meat with oil, salt and pepper. Let it sit at room temperature while preparing the other vegetables.
- Prepare all vegetables and add them to the slow cooker. Place round steak on top of veggies. Add the broth, wine, tomatoes, thyme, bay leaves, and a little salt and pepper. Cover the slow cooker and cook on low 8 hours, or until the meat is fork-tender.
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This delicious, comfort food recipe was adapted for the slow cooker and submitted by guest contributor, Joanne from Apple Crumble. Joanne expresses her creativity through food…and it shows!
Heather, it’s a spice that you can find in Indian grocery stores and sometimes in supermarkets. But if you can’t find it, you can leave it out.
It says optional, but DO NOT USE WINE IN THIS RECIPE!!! Or at least not a full cup.
I usually make my beef stew without wine (with more of a savory, beef gravy-type broth), but I thought I’d give this a try after seeing the amount of shares and reading the comments. BIG mistake. I followed the recipe to a T, and it tasted like nothing but red wine!
I was able to salvage it by thoroughly rinsing ALL of the wine-y broth off of the cooked meat and veggies, then leaving them in boiling water for about 5 minutes to remove as much of the wine flavor as possible. I whipped up some of regular broth, drained the meat and veggie combo and added a few more fresh veggies, and placed them in the new broth to simmer until the new potatoes softened. It still had a slight wine taste, but was much more like beef bourguignon and much less like I was chugging merlot straight from the bottle.
If you plan to try this recipe, my suggestion is to either use 3 cups of beef broth and no wine, OR using only 1/4 cup of wine or less and however much beef broth you need to equal 3 cups of total liquid. I’d definitely like to try this again without the wine.
Mel, I just remade this recipe and used only 1/4 cup red wine. You’re right, much better! I have made this with only broth and think it’s great with or w/o the wine. I updated the recipe as well. Thank you so much for making the suggestion. I love when our audience gives positive feedback. Thanks again! 🙂
Soo good! Great flavor and best beef stew we have made so far.