Slow Cooker Beef & Sweet Potato Stew is easy to throw together and filled with fall apart, tender beef pieces and sweet potato!
Slow Cooker Beef & Sweet Potato Stew! There’s nothing better than coming home to a home cooked meal, filling your house with rustic comfort food aromas, with nothing else to do but serve and eat. That is this meal, friends.
If you’ve been with me from the beginning — from before this blog started and Instagram was more my thing — you will recognise this recipe from the archives as this Warm Beef And Sweet Potato Casserole. A few readers have been asking how to convert that recipe for a slow cooker or crock pot, and since we have been slow cooking this stew for a while now, it was time to share, share, SHARE.
Normally with any slow cooker recipe, browning the meat is required first for an added depth of flavour. With this recipe, however, we don’t need to do that. I have found that the beef cooks to a softer and a more fall apart texture when cooked this way (without browning), but having said that, you’re more than welcome to brown it first if that’s what you’re used too.
With this recipe, you just throw it all in and wait for it to cook and thicken into a glorious stew, while the sweet potatoes begin to melt through the sauce, creating a flavour explosion so rich, you’ll be happy to have leftovers!
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- 3 pounds | 1 1/2 kg beef stew meat (I use trimmed chuck steak), diced into 1 inch cubes
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 onion , chopped
- 4 garlic cloves , crushed (or 1 tablespoon minced garlic)
- 1 large sweet potato , peeled and diced into 2-inch pieces (roughly 3 cups diced)
- 300 g | 10 ounces baby potatoes , halved
- 2 large carrots , sliced
- 1 red pepper , deseeded and diced
- 1-1/2 cups beef broth
- 14 ounces | 410 grams can diced tomatoes
- 1 beef bouillon cube , crushed
- 1/2-1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon mild paprika
- 2 bay leaves
- 4 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley , to serve
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Place the meat and flour into a 6qt (6 litre) slow cooker bowl. Stir to coat meat and add in the rest of the ingredients (except for the bay leaves and parsley). Stir all ingredients together and place bay leaves on top.
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Cover, and cook on low heat setting for 8-10 hours, or high heat setting for 4 to 6 hours.
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Taste test before serving, and add extra salt or pepper if needed. Garnish with parsley,
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Serve over white rice or mashed potatoes.
Adapted for the Slow Cooker from this Warm Beef And Sweet Potato Casserole recipe.
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Tatiana says
Do I need the flour? I thought I had some guess not.
Karina says
The red pepper is a bell pepper. You will want to deseed it and dice it up. Hope that helps! Enjoy your stew!
Maria says
Is the red pepper a bell pepper, or a spicy pepper of some kind, like red pepper flakes?
Erica says
What would be a good spice blend to replace a beef bouillon cube?
Gloria Jonas says
Can I use regular red potatoes instead of seeet potatoes? My husband does NOT like sweet potatoes
Rachel Lange says
We had this tonight for dinner and it was very nice. Can the leftovers be frozen?
Meghan says
We made this dish tonight for dinner. We didn’t have time for the crockpot so we cooked it in a pressure cooker as directed. It is so delicious!!! The only complaint was due to the pressure cooker my sweet potato broke apart. And it was so good we didn’t realize we didn’t pair it with rice or potatoes. Will definitely cook this again!
Karina says
Hi Jillian! That should be fine! Make sure to thaw everything out about an hour before cooking 🙂
Jillian says
Could I put the ingredients in a bag to freeze and put in slow cooker another day ? Thanks!!
Sabrina says
nice tip re: not having to brown the chuck steak first, and for all of my love of sweet potato, never thought to swap out “regular” (boring) potatoes for them, so thank you for this recipe I’m making it next!