After a long day warming up to a bowl of stew that you can wrap your hands around. With very little prep and simply throwing all of the ingredients into a crockpot after searing the meat makes it very simple to go out to work, pick up the kids and coming home to a dinner just makes everything wonderful.
Warm Earthy Beef Stew
Servings
Ingredients
- 1 pound beef stew meat
- 1/2 pound creamers baby potatoes cut in half
- 4 carrots sliced
- 2 stalks celery sliced
- 2 parsnip sliced
- 1 onion diced
- 1 can tomato paste smallest can
- 1/2 bottle cabernet sauvginon or your favorite red wine
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon thyme dried
- 1/4 teaspoon rosemary dried
- 1/4 cup flour or corn starch for gluten free people season with a bit of salt and pepper to taste
- 4 garlic cloves minced fresh the freezer cubes can be used
- 2 tablespoon Canola oil use a little at a time but not than more
Instructions
- Peel all the vegetables and slice up. Insert in the crock pot that is either lined with a crock pot liner or coated with cooking spray. In a Ziploc bag toss in the flour and seasoning and shake until thoroughly mixed. Toss in some beef cubes and toss until coated. As you do this heat saute pan with some oil, but not all. Sear beef on all sides. This should take fifteen minutes at most. Please make sure though to shake off as much excess flour as possible.
- By coating the beef with flour the stew will then thicken while cooking in to crock pot later on.
- Once the vegetables and beef are in the crock pot then add in the rest of the ingredients. Try to make sure that most of the ingredients are covered with the wine. If need be you can add more wine. Cook for 4-6 on high or 7-8 hours on low.
- Pick up some bread on your way home to scoop up all that yumminess.
Can i skip the flour?
Should be 4 cloves of garlic. Go ahead and sauté the garlic and onions should give it a nice flavor, just be careful not to let them burn. As for healthy greens you could try adding some fresh spinach just before serving or thawed frozen spinach from the beginning. It will change the dish, but should work well.
“4 Garlic” 4 cloves? 4 Head??? I am MAKING and OOPS… plus , as long as I am dirtying a pan to sear the meat, I am sauteing the garlic and onion…Also, could you add some GREEN veggies? like healthy?
This recipe I am sure will get top marks with my family. #delicious