Slow Cooker Beef Stew Recipe
Beef Stew is a great way to use up your fresh vegetables before they go bad or if you want a complete meal in a bowl. Stew meat with potatoes, carrots, onion, celery, diced tomatoes, garlic and herbs. This is a fool proof meal that will leave you wanting more.
Layer the potatoes, onions, carrots, celery, Worcestershire sauce and bay leaf in the slow cooker. Pour in the broth.
Sprinkle with 1 tsp salt, thyme and basil.
Pour the tomatoes over the top.
Whisk together the flour, remaining 1 tsp salt and pepper in a large bowl. Add the beef, tossing until the beef is completely coated.
In a large skillet over medium-high heat, add the oil. Cook the beef until brown on all sides. Add the garlic the last minute.
Transfer beef and garlic to the slow cooker.
Cover with the lid and cook on LOW for 9 hours. The beef and vegetables should all be tender. Remove the bay leaf and serve.
Slow Cooker Beef Stew Recipe
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Ingredients
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3 carrots, (peeled, halved lengthwise and cut into 1” pieces)
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3 stalks celery, rinse and cut into 1/2” pieces
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2 large potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2” pieces
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1½ cups chopped onions
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3 cloves garlic, diced
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1 can (about 14 oz) beef broth
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2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
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1 bay leaf
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2 tsp salt, divided
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3/4 tsp dried thyme
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3/4 tsp dried basil
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1- 14 oz can diced tomatoes
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2# beef stew meat, 1” pieces
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1/4 cup all purpose flour
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1/2 tsp pepper
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2 Tbsp vegetable oil
Directions
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Layer the potatoes, onions, carrots, celery, Worcestershire sauce and bay leaf in the slow cooker. Pour in the broth.
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Sprinkle with 1 tsp salt, thyme and basil.
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Pour the tomatoes over the top.
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Whisk together the flour, remaining 1 tsp salt and pepper in a large bowl. Add the beef, tossing until the beef is completely coated.
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In a large skillet over medium-high heat, add the oil. Cook the beef until brown on all sides. Add the garlic the last minute.
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Transfer beef and garlic to the slow cooker.
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Cover with the lid and cook on LOW for 9 hours. The beef and vegetables should all be tender.
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Remove the bay leaf then serve.
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Categories: Beef, Broth, Carrots, Flour, Garlic, Herbs, Oil, Onion, Pepper, Potato, Salt, Slow Cooker, Spices/Seasoning, Tomatoes, Vegetables/Slaws/Salads, Worcestershire Sauce
Looking good
Thank you Derrick!
Yummy winter dish, Diane!
It is perfect for winter and the house smells so good. I forgot to add how beautiful your baby blanket is in your post.
Thank you kindly, Diane.
Thanks for this recipe, will try it once I get settle in my new house 🙂
You are going to love this! Tip: Don’t buy stew meat. A butcher told me years ago that stew meat is a chuck roast cut up. I never bought it again after his good advice.
Oh yes I make an Irish stew with Guinness and I always cut up a chuck roast or even ribeye if on sale. 🙂
Nice to know ribeye works too! Thank you Tierney.
Looks delicious and so good for you!
Thank you Linda! I don’t like well done beef but I LOVE this!
I would definitely have more than one serving of that! Yummmmy!!!!!!
I just had a very big bowl and only ate one. Lol Thank you Braden!
I love stew. But my habit of eating one ingredient at a time annoys my wife.
No way! I have been made fun of by my mother because my food can’t touch and I eat one food item at a time. I see nothing wrong with it! Tell your wife it’s normal. BTW my husband does the same thing. 🤷🏽♀️
I’ve not had beef stew since my mom last made it. She used to make it a lot when the fresh green beans were available in late Summer.
Interesting, I have never seen it made with green beans.
Really? My mom always made it with green beans, real occasionally with yellow wax beans.
Probably because this is more of a winter stew. Carrots, celery and potatoes are always in the grocery store and they taste good. Beans are never fresh from the store in the winter and never tastes as good as the summer beans.
Yes, that is true. My mom was almost as excited about the green beans as she was the beefsteak tomatoes. She liked having them with toast or just eating them over the sink with a salt shaker.
Yes beefsteak tomatoes are the best!
Very tasty when just off the vine!
The stew looks delicious!
Thanks so much!
Looking so delicious 😋
Thank you!
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I have now saved this recipe to my desktop… Maybe next week I would like to make something delicious like this
I hope you get a chance to give this a try! Thank you
You and I think the same, Diane. Stews are the best way to use up the carrots and celeries in the fridge. I love making beef stews too. I used to pressure cook them but like you, there’s something satisfying about the slow cooked approach. I use a Dutch oven as I don’t have a slow cooker. So satisfying.
Your stew looks delicious. I can smell it!
I tried to like the pressure cooker and instant pot but we just didn’t care for the food from them. Now my cast iron Dutch oven we love, as you do! Have a great weekend Ab!
Yes, to minimal prep and maximum flavors!
Yes! I use my slow cooker a lot. Not only for the easy prep and delicious taste, but that I can go about my day not worrying about fixing supper.
Good recipe!
I love beef stew. It’s a comfort food. And it’s delicious.
Thank you Neil!
Winter comfort food!
Yes! With the windows closed the entire house smells great for hours.
Fabulous!
yum! I am currently in the process of making turkey soup. Making soup out of kitchen scraps is seriously one of the best things I learned how to do.
Absolutely and there is no right or wrong way to make it, just throw whatever you want in the pot.
I have never put canned tomatoes in my beef stew, but maybe I will try that. I just never thought to do it !
More flavor and color is never a bad thing. Lol