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Slow Cooker Beef Stew is full of flavour and so easy to throw together. Filled with fall apart, tender beef pieces and melt in your mouth sweet potato.
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. Slow Cooker Beef Stew with sweet potatoes melting through the gravy creates a flavour so rich, you’ll be happy to have leftovers!
BEEF STEW
Tender, fall-apart chunks of beef with melt-in-your-mouth sweet potato and veggies in a rich and flavourful gravy that practically cooks itself! Your kind of dinner, I know.
Not only is this Beef Stew absolutely delicious, it may be the easiest stew recipe you’ll throw in your slow cooker.
DO YOU HAVE TO COOK THE MEAT BEFORE ADDING IT INTO A SLOW COOKER?
As with many slow cooker recipes, browning the meat is required first for an added depth of flavour. A light sear over medium-high heat is all you need, not necessarily cooking the meat all the way through. Your slow cooker will do that for you.
With this recipe however, you don’t need to brown the meat if you’re pressed for time. I do recommend it for added flavour.
The onions and garlic may also be sautéed before adding them to the slow cooker.
HOW TO COOK BEEF STEW IN A SLOW COOKER
Once your meat is browned, throw everything in the slow cooker and wait for it to cook and thicken into a glorious stew! That’s pretty much it with this recipe. The ingredients list may be long, but the depth of flavour in the end result is worth it.
LEFTOVERS
Store leftovers in airtight containers in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. Simply reheat the amount needed in the microwave or in a pot on the stove.
TO PREPARE BEEF STEW THE NIGHT BEFORE
Prep all of your ingredients the night before and have them ready the morning of! Dice the beef and cut your veggies. Refrigerate the meat and veggies in separate air-tight containers overnight, then continue with the recipe in the morning. As mentioned above, browning the meat, onions and garlic is not necessary if you’re pressed for time.
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Slow Cooker Beef Stew
Ingredients
- 3 pounds beef chuck roast diced into 1 inch cubes
- 4 tablespoons cooking oil
- 1 large onion chopped
- 6 cloves garlic crushed, or 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 large sweet potato peeled and diced into 2-inch pieces, roughly 3 cups diced
- 10 ounces baby potatoes halved
- 2 large carrots sliced
- 1 red bell pepper deseeded and chopped
- 1-1/2 cups beef broth or stock
- 1 cup dry white wine optional
- 14 ounces diced tomatoes canned
- 1/4 cup tomato paste
- 2 beef bouillon cubes crushed
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon mild paprika
- 2 bay leaves
- 4 tablespoons fresh parsley chopped to serve
Instructions
- Season beef with salt and pepper.
- Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a pan or skillet over medium-high heat. Sear beef until browned (about 2 to 3 minutes per side) in batches, adding more oil when needed.
- Transfer browned meat to into a 6qt (6 litre) slow cooker bowl.
- Fry the onion with remaining oil in the same skillet until softened. Add in the garlic and sauce until fragrant (30 seconds). Transfer to the slow cooker bowl.
- Add flour and mix to coat the meat and onions/garlic. Throw in the rest of the ingredients (except for the bay leaves and parsley) and give it a good mix. Place bay leaves on top.
- Cover, and cook on low heat setting for 8-10 hours, or high heat setting for 4 to 6 hours.
- Taste test before serving, and add extra salt or pepper if needed. Garnish with parsley,
- Serve over white rice or mashed potatoes.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
We make this over and over!! It’s the best!! Love the sweet potato! Even my picky kiddos love it! It’s one of the few meals the 6 of us love…even my extended family loved it! Thank you!!!!!!
This stew is very delicious, the broth it’s very tasty and thick. What I like the most it’s that it’s not very salty as other recipe I used before and I just had to thin it cause it was just very thick and extremely salty. Glad I came to this recipe and for sure I would use it from now on only.
This was so delicious… I just ate it for dinner and it is my first time making beef stew. I didn’t have beef bouillon cubes or the beef stock so I subbed it all for chicken instead and it tasted just great. Thank you for this recipe and I will be making again and again.
Tried this recipe this weekend and it turned out so yummy. The only thing I did differently was, I substituted the flour with garbanzo beans flour. Everyone liked it and I will definitly be make this often.
I just made this- well, I used it as a building block 😀 it looks great. I have an instant pot Mini, so I had to shrink it down. I diced and browned about 1.3 lbs of chuck roast using the saute function, put it in a bowl and browned 1 small onion and a minced clove of garlic. Then I added back the roast (with a bit of flour), 3 red potatoes cubed, a carrot and a stick of celery finely diced, 1/3 to 1/2 a red bell pepper diced, about 1/2 a cup each of buillion (I use “better than buillion” in water) and white wine, a table spoon of tomato sauce. Plus spices like parsley, pepper, etc. It sat for about 2.5 hours on Slow Cook High. It was great! Some carrots didn’t cook all the way though, and the potatoes cooked unevenly. But I’ll definitely be trying it again. Thank you for sharing the recipe!
This looks like the recipe I’ve been looking for. The directions say in step 4 to add in the garlic and sauce.
What is the “sauce”? Is it all of the liquids?
The sauce is the liquid from before. Hope that helps! Enjoy! XO
Yep, this bit threw me too ! But I just assumed it meant chucking all the liquids in. Turned out beautiful, so thank you !
Absolutely fantastic recipe! This was my first time making a slow cooked meal and it turned out beautifully. Super easy and my family loved it! Will 100% be made again. <3
For those who are confused about the step where it says to add the “sauce”, it’s basically just the drippings from the beef being browned.
Thanks for the clarification 👍
Can I make this in a pressure cooker?
Yes, of course! I have not made it in the pressure cooker yet. Let me know how it turns out! XO
This one looks absolutely delicious too! Can’t wait to make it!
Hi Karina,
Already sent email to you and just found this from another lady asking the same question?.
Connie says
October 7, 2018 at
This looks Devine. I have a question on adding the sauce. I did not see this in the list of ingredients. Help.
The sauce will come together while you are adding ingredients to the pot. Hope that helps! XO