BEEF STEW - OLD RECIPE. This classic stick-to-your-ribs stew is the ideal project for a chilly weekend. Beef, onion, carrots, potatoes and red wine come together in cozy harmony. A traditional beef stew made from trimmed, lean beef chuck.
The best part is that you can make it the day before for the best flavor! Nothing speaks comfort like an old-fashioned beef stew on a chilly evening. The classic beef stew recipe almost always shares these same common features: Beef that is seared for ultimate flavor and slow-simmered with carrots, celery and potatoes in a rich sauce seasoned with herbs and red wine. You can cook BEEF STEW - OLD RECIPE using 14 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of BEEF STEW - OLD RECIPE
- Prepare 2 lb of Beef.
- It's 1 medium of Onion.
- It's 1/2 cup of Flour.
- It's 3 cup of Water.
- It's 2 can of Stewed Tomatoes.
- It's 1 can of Cut Green Beans.
- You need 2 of Stalks of Celery.
- You need 2 cup of Baby Carrots.
- Prepare 3 large of Potatoes.
- It's 2 tbsp of Worcestershire Sauce.
- You need 1 tsp of Salt.
- It's 1 tsp of Black Pepper.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of Garlic Powder.
- Prepare 2 of Bay Leaves - Optional.
This Old Fashioned Beef Stew is pure comfort in a bowl with tender beef, hearty vegetables, and all the right herbs and spices—it's the best! We love the fall for lots of reasons, not the least of which is the reappearance of all of our favorite seasonal comfort foods in the grocery stores. Choose the right beef for stew—you may be able to buy already cut up stew meat in the meat department or buy a chuck roast, that has a good ratio of fat and collagen marbled through the meat. Categories: Beef Stew Beef Stew Recipes Main Dish.
BEEF STEW - OLD RECIPE instructions
- Cut the beef length wise with a knife, then slice each piece into bite sized pieces with the scissors. (I use steak or roast).
- Sprinkle beef with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and flour before browning it in cooking oil in a medium high skillet..
- After browning beef, sprinkle lightly with flour again and continue to stir and brown..
- Add one cup water to browned meat and stir. This will make a nice brown gravy base for your stew..
- Chop onion and add to gravy base in skillet. Simmer a minute or two. No need to fully cook onion at this point. Then pour into large crockpot..
- Add the undrained tomatoes and undrained green beans to the crockpot..
- Cut baby carrots lengthwise in half. The bigger ones can be quartered lengthwise..
- Slice celery into small bite sized pieces and add to crockpot..
- Choose 3 large potatoes for the stew. (Baker Size) Quarter potatoes lengthwise, save two quarters back, and then slice the rest into normal bite sized pieces. Add to crockpot..
- Cut saved quarters of potatoes into tiny pieces..
- Add last bit of potatoes to crockpot. Then season stew with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and worcestershire sauce and stir well..
- Add 2 Cups of Water to crockpot and stir stew again. Let cook on high crockpot setting for 4 1/2 hours to 5 hours. Cooking time really depends on how you like your vegetables cooked..
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Stewing meat is known as a method of cooking that's older then most. In this video Deronda demonstrates how to add a perfect sear to beef cubes before. Beef Pork or Meatball Stew for dinner. Nice on those cold days to warm you up. Heat up some dinner rolls for a complete meal.