How to Prepare Yummy BEEF STEW - OLD RECIPE

BEEF STEW - OLD RECIPE. A traditional beef stew made from trimmed, lean beef chuck. This recipe includes potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, onions and green beans, and clear directions on how to eliminate unwanted fat from the stew. This is the classic recipe for savory beef stew that you grew up loving.

Choose the right beef for stew—you may be able to buy already cut up stew meat in the meat department or buy a chuck roast, that has a good ratio of fat and collagen marbled through the meat. The opposite is true with beef chuck. Some people have told us that this recipe is missing flour. You can cook BEEF STEW - OLD RECIPE using 14 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of BEEF STEW - OLD RECIPE

1. You need 2 lb of Beef.
2. Prepare 1 medium of Onion.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of Flour.
4. You need 3 cup of Water.
5. Prepare 2 can of Stewed Tomatoes.
6. It's 1 can of Cut Green Beans.
7. It's 2 of Stalks of Celery.
8. It's 2 cup of Baby Carrots.
9. Prepare 3 large of Potatoes.
10. Prepare 2 tbsp of Worcestershire Sauce.
11. Prepare 1 tsp of Salt.
12. Prepare 1 tsp of Black Pepper.
13. You need 1/2 tsp of Garlic Powder.
14. You need 2 of Bay Leaves - Optional.

There's no rule that beef stew needs a thickening agent. In fact, many recipes skip it, not just ours. 😉As the soup simmers, the potatoes give off plenty of starch. This Old Fashioned Beef Stew is pure comfort in a bowl with tender beef, hearty vegetables, and all the right herbs and spices—it's the best! We love the fall for lots of reasons, not the least of which is the reappearance of all of our favorite seasonal comfort foods in the grocery stores.

BEEF STEW - OLD RECIPE instructions

1. Cut the beef length wise with a knife, then slice each piece into bite sized pieces with the scissors. (I use steak or roast).
2. Sprinkle beef with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and flour before browning it in cooking oil in a medium high skillet..
3. After browning beef, sprinkle lightly with flour again and continue to stir and brown..
4. Add one cup water to browned meat and stir. This will make a nice brown gravy base for your stew..
5. Chop onion and add to gravy base in skillet. Simmer a minute or two. No need to fully cook onion at this point. Then pour into large crockpot..
6. Add the undrained tomatoes and undrained green beans to the crockpot..
7. Cut baby carrots lengthwise in half. The bigger ones can be quartered lengthwise..
8. Slice celery into small bite sized pieces and add to crockpot..
9. Choose 3 large potatoes for the stew. (Baker Size) Quarter potatoes lengthwise, save two quarters back, and then slice the rest into normal bite sized pieces. Add to crockpot..
10. Cut saved quarters of potatoes into tiny pieces..
11. Add last bit of potatoes to crockpot. Then season stew with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and worcestershire sauce and stir well..
12. Add 2 Cups of Water to crockpot and stir stew again. Let cook on high crockpot setting for 4 1/2 hours to 5 hours. Cooking time really depends on how you like your vegetables cooked..
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As always, feel free to make this recipe fit your family. Share: Rate this Recipe I am going to make this stew as it is chilly outside. I like old fashioned recipes like those my Mother made. Learn how to make Old-Fashioned Beef Stew. Transfer to a bowl with a slotted spoon.