Easy Crock Pot Beef Stew

Easy Crock Pot Beef Stew

Today I’m going to show you guys how to make an easy beef stew in the crock pot. Now I have made pot roast or beef stew where you brown the meat, but a lot of you have commented, a couple of you have sent me email messages, where you want a beef stew recipe that’s a bit easier, that skips the step where you brown the meat first. So this is the one.

Why You’ll Love This

This is kind of like a dump and go crock pot beef stew. You want a beef stew recipe that’s a bit easier, that skips the step where you brown the meat first. I love using this because it makes life easy.

Ingredients

• 2.5 to 3 pounds of beef chuck roast, cut into large chunks
• 2 teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce
• 0.5 teaspoon of salt
• 0.5 teaspoon cracked black pepper (or 0.25 teaspoon fine ground pepper)
• 0.5 teaspoon of dried thyme
• 5 tablespoons of all-purpose flour
• 1.5 to 2 pounds of gold potatoes, semi-peeled, rinsed, and cut into chunks
• 3 medium carrots, cut into chunks
• 3 cloves of garlic, minced
• 2 celery sticks, chopped (with celery leaves)
• 1 pack onion soup dry mix
• 1 dried bay leaf
• Almost 2 cups of peas
• 1 tablespoon of butter
• French bread
• Chopped parsley

Instructions

1. Add two teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce to the beef chuck roast.
2. Use a clean hand and just work that in.
3. Coat the meat.
4. Add a half teaspoon of salt.
5. Give that a mix.
6. Add cracked black pepper, like a half teaspoon.
7. Add like a half teaspoon of dried thyme.
8. Shake in five tablespoons of all-purpose flour.
9. Coat this meat.
10. Add my meat to a six-quart crock pot.
11. Make sure that’s all mixed and evenly on the bottom there.
12. Go in with my celery.
13. Just put that on top.
14. I have my garlic going in.
15. And my onion soup dry mix.
16. Sprinkle that on top.
17. Now going in with my potatoes and carrots.
18. I’m going to cover with a lid.
19. I’m also going to be adding one dried bay leaf.
20. I nestled it right in here.
21. It’s three hours into the cook time, and I want to give it a mix here and combine everything.
22. Quickly cover with the lid.
23. I’m just going to let this continue cooking on a high heat.
24. I’m going to rinse these peas.
25. Add my peas.
26. I’m going to take out the bay leaf.
27. Mix in the peas.
28. One more hour.
29. Before I give it a stir, you see how some of the fat has pooled at the top? I’m just going to skim that off.

Cooking Tips

Worcestershire has, you know, it’s salty, so you don’t want to go too much with the salt here. If you’re using a fine ground pepper, then a quarter teaspoon. When you lift the lid too much on your crock pot, it takes longer. It takes it longer to come up to heat and to start cooking.

Serving Suggestions

I’m going to toast some bread in this cast iron skillet. I have a little bit of butter here. Well, it’s more like a tablespoon. And here I have some French bread. And I’m just going to toast that. Make sure I get butter on both sides. I have some chopped parsley. I’m going to do a little bit on top. Now I’m going to get a good scoop of this. Right on top of the bread.

I hope you give this recipe a try. I hope you like it. And this is dinner.