Easy Beef Stew for Two
Easy Beef Stew for Two

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This easy red wine-braised beef stew is the ultimate one-pot meal. Many stew recipes call for cooking the meat and vegetables at the same time, leaving the vegetables overcooked and mushy. Traditionally beef stew has carrots, celery, onion, potatoes and peas. The vegetables are cut into large pieces so they don't overcook and become mushy during The best cut of beef for stew is boneless chuck roast because it won't dry out after cooking and is more affordable than a more tender cut.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have easy beef stew for two using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
  1. Make ready 1-2 lbs well marbled beef chuck shoulder, in 2" in chunks
  2. Get Salt & pepper to season
  3. Prepare 3 tablespoons olive oil
  4. Make ready 1 yellow onion, largely diced
  5. Get 3 cloves garlic, rough chopped
  6. Take 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  7. Prepare 1 tablespoon tomato paste
  8. Prepare Handful flour
  9. Take 3 cups beef broth
  10. Get 1 bay leave
  11. Get 1 teaspoon dried time
  12. Prepare Couple dashes of Worcestershire sauce
  13. Prepare 4-6 carrots, cut into 1" medallions
  14. Make ready 4-6 celery stalks,cut 1" pieces
  15. Prepare 1 large potato, skinned and cut into 1" pieces
  16. Prepare 1 (14.5 oz) can stewed tomatoes with juices
  17. Prepare 1/4 cup chopped parsley

Crock Pot Beef Stew is chock full of hearty flavor and goodness. Tender beef, carrots, potatoes come together in a rich flavorful gravy. This recipe was written for two hearty servings but it can certainly be doubled or tripled to suit your needs. The crock pot is such an asset in the kitchen anytime of year.

Steps to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
  1. Trim any large fat caps off your meat and cube meat into large bites, season liberally with salt and pepper. Set aside. The salt will encourage natural sugars to come to meats surface for better browning.
  2. In a large stock pot, heat a tablespoon of olive oil on med high heat until nearly smoking
  3. In three batches, pat meat dry and drop into hot pan and sear each side a couple minutes to get a dark brown crust. Do not crowd all the meat into the pan or it will simply steam. Add more oil for each batch. Set browned meat aside.
  4. Add onion, then garlic to the pan and saute a couple minutes. Add balsamic and tomato paste and stir a minute longer. Scrape any bits from bottom of pan.
  5. Add meat to back to the pan and dust liberally with flour. Stir to cook flour 2 minutes.
  6. Add broth, bay leaf, thyme, and Worcestershire. Reduce heat to low.
  7. Add vegetables and can tomatoes with juices. Stir and cover.
  8. Cook on a low simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally until meat is fork tender. Add parsley at the finish.
  9. Add more broth if needed or to thicken mix one tablespoon of flour with a little broth and add to pot and continue cooking.
  10. Check at the end for needed salt or pepper. Remove bay leaf before serving.

This recipe was written for two hearty servings but it can certainly be doubled or tripled to suit your needs. The crock pot is such an asset in the kitchen anytime of year. Instant Pot beef stew is one pot dinner with fall apart beef and lots of veggies cooked in delicious gravy sauce. Like my Ukrainian grandma used to make. Easy instructions and simple ingredients will blow your mind in this most flavorful pressure cooker beef stew recipe on the web.

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