Beef Stew Recipe and directions?

Answer 1

Lightly flour and season stew meat (paprika, salt, pepper)
Brown in a bit of oil
Remove from pan and then saute cut up carrots, onions, celery in a bit more oil

Add meat back to pot with a clove of chopped garlic and a teaspoon of thyme. Mix well and add stock or water. At this point you can add beer, red wine, or tomato juice as well for a richer sauce. Let simmer for 2 hours and serve with good crusty bread.

Answer 2

Easy Beef Stew

1 1/2 - pound cubed beef stew meat
1 - teaspoon seasoned salt
1/2 – teaspoon onion powder
1/2 - teaspoon pepper
3 – celery stalks, sliced
2 - potatoes - cubed
2 - carrots - cubed
1 – can whole tomatoes (optional)
1 - Whole large turnip (diced)
1 - medium onion – chopped
3 - tablespoon vegetable oil
1/2 – cup all purpose flour
1 can beef broth
water

Start the recipe of with a little prep work. Cube your potatoes and carrots, chop the onion and slice up your celery stalks.
Next give your beef stew a good rinsing in cold water and pat the meat dry with paper towels and set aside.
In a small bowl form your seasoning mixture by combining and mixing together seasoned salt, onion powder and black pepper. Season you meat using the mixture. Next apply a light coat of flour to the beef stew.
Add vegetable oil to large frying pans and Sauté beef until all sides have browned.
Transfer the beef stew to the crock pot and add whole tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, turnips and onions. Add 1 can beef broth and enough water to cover ingredients. Stir to evenly distribute ingredients.
Cook on low heat for 10-12 hours or high heat for 5-6 hours. The beef stew is done when the meat and potatoes are tender.

Answer 3

Take a couple of pounds of bottom round roast (wait for it to go on sale for about $2/lb--it's normally 1/2 that) or top round roast (ditto sale, but it's a little more expensive). Cut it up into pieces about 1/2" by 1/2" by 1". Be sure a cut against the grain (that is, see which direction the "strings" in the meat run and cut them short--this makes the meat more tender).

Fry them in a skillet in a little oil or shortening until they're completely cooked and a little brown. If you like your soup thick, roll them in flour first.

Wash and cut some carrots, potatoes, onions, and turnips into bite-size pieces. (The turnips don't taste like turnips in the finished product--you think they're potatoes!--but whenever I add them, the stew just tastes better. They're my "secret ingredient.") Toss them all into a big pot with enough water to cover them about 3". Stir in two packets of cheap beef stew seasoning (I like Great Value [Wal-Mart's brand]. It costs about 35c per packet and tastes great.).

Last time, I also added a can of stewed tomatoes. It was good.

For more flavor, pour or sop out the fat from the frying pan. Add a little water to loosen the stuff that's stuck. Pour it into the pot.

Bring it to a boil. Reduce the heat and cover. Check it every so often to make sure the water hasn't boiled down far enough to let it burn.

If you want to cook it in a crock pot, slightly cook the vegetables first. The crock pot takes too long to cook veggies, but they'll be fine if they're partially cooked before you put them in.

Answer 4

1 can tomato soup
2 cans plain stewed tomatoes
2 lbs. beef stew meat
4 big carrots sliced into 1/4 inch slices
3 good sized potatoes cut into cubes
Seasonings
- Onion Pouder
- Garlic Pouder
- Salt
- Pepper
- Italian Sesoning
- Bay Leaf
- Worstishire Sause
- Nutmeg
- Flour

- Rince meat off in a strainer
- Put meat in a zip lock type bag with about 1/2 cup of flour
- Add Salt and Pepper. Shake bag to flour the meat. Meat should be totally covered.
- Cover the bottom of a large pan (that has a lid) with oil (about 2 table spoons) and brown the meat (mostly).
- With the pot on medium heat on the stove
- Add tomato soup and stewed tomatos
- And then add the following seasonings:
- 2 table spoons of garlic powder
- 2 table spoons of onion powder
- 1 table spoon of Italian seasoning
- 1/2 tea spoon of Nutmeg
- 1 table spoon of Worstishire Sause
- 1 Bay Leaf
- Additional Salt and Pepper to taste

- Add the potatos and carrots
- Once everything is added
- Put the lid on the pan and put the pan in an oven that has been pre-heated to 350 degrees for about 4 hours.
- Stir often to prevent burning.

*** Amounts of seasonings have been estimated as my wife never measurs anything and just adds stuff until it taste the way she wants it. ***

Enjoy

Answer 5

Good and easy:

BEEF STEW

1 lb. beef, cut into chunks
1 can whole kernel corn
1 can peas
4 potatoes, cut into chunks
4 carrots, cut into chunks
1 lg. onion, cut into chunks
1 pkg. beef stew seasoning mix
Salt
Black pepper

In large kettle cook beef until tender. Then add carrots, corn, peas, potatoes, onion, salt, black pepper and beef stew seasoning mix. Simmer for about 30 minutes and you are ready to eat.