Beef Stew
’’Rich, meaty, and delicious beef stew’’
Ingredients: 
- Pot roast beef
- 1 cup of flour
- 4 Carrots
- 3 Potatoes
- 3 Onions
- 1 Cabbage
- 1 Rutabaga or Turnip
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 Bay leaves
- 1 tbsp of Thyme
- 4 cups of Vegetable Stock
- 1 can of Tomato Paste
Directions:
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Cut the veggies as you like them. I prefer to cut them in quarter while other will go with small bite size veggies. Average size would be 1 inch cubes.
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Same goes with the pot roast. You can either cook the entire piece of meat or chop it in 1 inch size meat cubes.
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Roll you meat into the flour. While this step isnot necessary to your recipe, it will make the meat tastier.
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In a large pot, place all the ingredients and cover with stock. If there is not enough stock, you can add water.
- On the stove, bring to boil.
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Cover and put in the oven at 350 F for 2 1/2 hours .
Notes:
- Feel free to add any vegetable you like to the stew! Mushrooms, corn or celery are other kind of veggies you could add to your recipe.
- You can use water instead of stock.
- If your pot does not go into the oven, just reduce the heat to low, cover and simmer for 2 hours.
October 27, 2010 at 8:37 am
That has made me sooooooooo hungry, shame I’m at work
October 27, 2010 at 8:51 am
Good – and the cooked cabbage looks like brains! BRAINS ! BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINNNNNSSSSS!
October 27, 2010 at 9:46 am
My husband makes the absolute BEST beef stew specifically to my tastes in the crock pot. I don’t know what he does but the gravy is so rich and creamy and beefy… Mmmmm…. I’m going to have to ask him to make me some.
October 27, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Beef stew is heavenly — you can do a few things to sort of ‘up’ the beefiness, like subbing in 1/2-1 cup of red wine for your stock, sauteeing the beef to brown it before you add the rest of the veggies — I like to brown the meat, remove it and without cleaning the pot first add the tomato paste, some mushrooms (darker the better) and a splash of soy sauce. Cook it until it’s good and dark, then add the rest of your ingredients and follow as above. Sooo good.
If you’re doing it in a crock pot, skip the browning, chuck it all in there, and consider adding a little red wine or soy sauce if you like.
Using half veggie stock, half beef or chicken stock can also up the savory. 
Still, that looks super delicious!