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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy beef stew for two using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
- Make ready well marbled beef chuck shoulder, in 2" in chunks
- Prepare Salt & pepper to season
- Take olive oil
- Take yellow onion, largely diced
- Prepare garlic, rough chopped
- Get balsamic vinegar
- Get tomato paste
- Prepare flour
- Get beef broth
- Get bay leave
- Get dried time
- Make ready Couple dashes of Worcestershire sauce
- Take carrots, cut into 1" medallions
- Get celery stalks,cut 1" pieces
- Take large potato, skinned and cut into 1" pieces
- Make ready can stewed tomatoes with juices
- Take chopped parsley
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Steps to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
- 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.
- In a large stock pot, heat a tablespoon of olive oil on med high heat until nearly smoking
- 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.
- 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.
- Add meat to back to the pan and dust liberally with flour. Stir to cook flour 2 minutes.
- Add broth, bay leaf, thyme, and Worcestershire. Reduce heat to low.
- Add vegetables and can tomatoes with juices. Stir and cover.
- Cook on a low simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally until meat is fork tender. Add parsley at the finish.
- Add more broth if needed or to thicken mix one tablespoon of flour with a little broth and add to pot and continue cooking.
- Check at the end for needed salt or pepper. Remove bay leaf before serving.
Instead of using hamburger meat I used a can of roast beef with gravy. I rinsed off the gravy and shredded the beef chunks. 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. This easy, flavorful beef stew recipe in the crock pot uses lean beef and carrots, potatoes, rosemary, and garlic.
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