Beef stew in a slow cooker
This stew is the perfect comfort food for the cold winter months. It's easy to make, hearty and utterly delicious. Beef is stewed with onions, carrots and potatoes in the slow cooker.
Ingredients
Serves: 6
- 450g diced beef stewing steak
- 1 tablespoon plain flour
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 30g butter
- 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
- 4 tablespoons red wine
- 1 cube beef stock
- 250ml hot water
- 1 large potato, cubed
- 65g baby carrots
- 1/2 teaspoon rosemary
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 tablespoon garlic granules
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 4 tablespoons water
- 2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:8hr15min ›
Ready in:8hr35min
- Place beef and flour in a resealable plastic bag. Seal and shake to evenly coat beef with flour. Heat the oil in a frying pan over medium heat and brown beef on all sides. Transfer to a slow cooker.
- Melt the butter in the frying pan over medium heat and cook onion until tender. Transfer to the slow cooker with the beef. Pour wine into the frying pan to deglaze, then pour wine into slow cooker.
- Dissolve the beef stock cube in 250ml hot water and pour into slow cooker. Place potato and carrots in slow cooker and season with rosemary, thyme, garlic granules and pepper. Mix in 4 tablespoons water and Worcestershire sauce. Add more water if needed to cover all ingredients.
- Cover slow cooker and cook stew 7 to 8 hours on Low.
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I made this recipe yesterday, starting it before work and coming home to the most wonderful aroma. (I just love slow cookers!). I used a homeade vegetable stock I had on hand instead of boullion and adjusted the water accordingly. I too did not change anything else because it looked good to me on paper and I'm happy to report that it turned just wonderful. The meat was so tender and the flavor was great. For my own preference I took a bit of liquid out just before serving and whisked in a bit of flour till it was smooth and then poured it back into the cooker for about 20 minutes to thicken is up a bit. I prefer a thicker "stew". This was so tasty and just what I needed after a long day. I highly recommend :-) - 08 Oct 2006 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
My husband and his mom loved this recipe. We followed the directions to a T. My husband generally doesn't eat red meat so I was very happy he enjoyed this. I personally like a lot of flavors so I was happy with the seasoning and probably won't change that. To the reviewer below though, it's red wine, not red wine vinegar. That probably would taste really bad in a slow cooker. Great recipe overall. Thank you - 07 Oct 2006 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
This was easy and very good! Don't let the description that says a LOT of onion scare you...it is not at all overpowering. The only thing I expected to be different was the consistency...I thought it would be Thicker so maybe next time I can remedy that by adding less liquid. Ate it over cornbread and was very tasty and filling. - 17 Nov 2005 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)