Introduction: Easy Beef Stew

How to Make an Easy Beef Stew (Crockpot)

In this instructable, I will teach you how to make a really easy and super yummy beef stew. When it is cold exterior, there is something dainty well-nigh having a nice bowl of hot stew to warm upward the belly. This stew takes fiddling preparation, and if y'all start it in the morning, it will be ready for dinner. Follow the easy steps below or spotter the short video tutorial, or exercise both! Enjoy!

Ingredients:

4 to 5 potatoes (add white potato per person, plus one extra)

1 pound of carrots (baby carrots, or diced carrots, peeled)

1 yellow onion

ane beef stew mix (super cheap normally under a dollar)

celery (optional)

4 to 6 cups of water

salt (to gustation)

pepper (to taste)

garlic powder (to taste)

Pocketknife

cut board

Crock-Pot

Wooden spoon

Basically pour all the ingredients into your crockpot and permit information technology cook on low for eight hrs or high for 4 hours. Simple as that.

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Pace i: Cut Upward Potatoes

Offset lets go ahead and cup upwards our Potatoes. I like to make them seize with teeth sized chunks, you can die them as well, make them every bit large or equally small every bit you want. For every four people you want to serve add an boosted irish potato so a full of five potatoes. This is not exact, if you lot similar less potatoes, use less, if you lot similar a ton of potato, use more.

Pace 2: Cut Upwards Onion

Now permit'south move on to our onion. I cutting these up in chunks as well, once again, make them the size that yous want.

Stride iii: Add Potatoes, Onion, Carrots, and Meat

Now lets add our chopped potatoes, onion, carrots and beef to the Crock-Pot.

***If you lot practise not have a Crock-Pot, you can make the stew on the stove top. If you do that, you will want to chocolate-brown the meat first in a pan, with a lilliputian scrap of oil. Just sear the outsides.

Step 4: Mix the Beef Stew Mix

Most supermarkets have a Spice Mix expanse, with all kinds of ready-mixes. They are usually quite reasonably priced. Mine cost something like $0.69. Let's accept our mix and add two cups of water to information technology, and stir. And then pour information technology onto our ingredients. If you tin can't find a beef stew mix at your store or online, get ahead and utilise beef broth, or something similar.

Footstep v: Add Additional Water

Next nosotros add about iii to 4 more cups of water, until it comes up and almost covers the top, then stir.

Stride half dozen: Add Table salt, Pepper, Garlic Pulverisation

At present we add some salt, black pepper, and garlic powder. Stews tin can handle a lot of spices. Don't over do it hither. You will add more to gustation when you serve the stew. I leave it upwardly to the individual to add the additional salt and pepper.

Footstep 7: Encompass and Cook

At present we put on the cover and melt it. If you have a full viii hrs, set it on low and allow information technology melt the full 8 hours. If you have 4 hours, set information technology on loftier. If you have nearly vi ours, set it on high for ii hours, and so low the remaining four. No demand to stir it during the process, just let it sit and do its thing. The beauty of the ho-hum cooking method! If you don't have a Crock-Pot, you lot tin make information technology in a pot, it volition take virtually an hour, and medium high heat. You will want to brown your meat beginning however.

Pace 8: It's Done!

Your stew is done! Serve it upwardly, and any leftovers you tin freeze. I similar to brand a ton of stew, and then store it in niggling plastic containers in the freezer. When yous want some stew, take it out of the freezer and heat information technology up in the microwave. Works great!

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Step ix: Video Tutorial

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