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Beef Stew Recipe

Beef Stew- chunks of beef are simmered with stewed tomatoes, steak sauce, potatoes, carrots, onion, celery and peas plus plenty of seasonings. It’s a cold weather classic. So flavorful and hearty.

Beef Stew in a Dutch oven.

Beef Stew is a great way to turn inexpensive cuts of beef into a delicious meal. The beef cooks for such a long time, it gets wonderfully tender. For best flavor, the beef cubes get coated in flour and seared in oil to get the exterior caramelized.

For this recipe, I buy the cubed beef labeled “stew meat”, but you can use a higher quality cut of meat.  This stew slow simmers on the stove for 2 1/2 hours. So it’s great for making on a lazy Sunday afternoon to eat later in the week.

Beef Stew

Tips For Making Beef Stew

  • You’ll want a large Dutch oven for this recipe. I love to use my enamel-coated Le Creseut Dutch Oven.
  • If you don’t want to use stew meat, buy a chuck roast and cut it into 1 1/2-inch chunks.
  • Not all beef stew recipes have tomatoes, but I like tomatoes in mine, especially stewed tomatoes which have a slightly sweet flavor to them. You could substitute diced tomatoes instead.
  • Can be made a day or two ahead of time. The flavor only improves with time.

How To Store

This stew will keep in an airtight conatainer in the refrigerator for 4 to 5 days. Reheat in the microwave.

How To Freeze

This recipe freeezes well. Large ziptop bags are perfect for freezing it. When you are ready to cook it, defrost in the refrigerator overnight and reheat in the microwave or in a pot.

Beef Stew

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Beef Stew

Beef Stew

Beef Stew- chunks of beef are simmered with stewed tomatoes, steak sauce, potatoes, carrots, onion, celery and peas plus plenty of seasonings. It's a cold weather classic. So flavorful and hearty.

PREP: 20 minutes
COOK: 2 hours 40 minutes
SERVINGS: 6

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 pounds beef stew meat
  • salt and pepper
  • 1/4 cup flour
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 cups diced onion
  • 1/2 cup diced celery
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 2 cups water
  • 2 (14.5-ounce) cans stewed tomatoes
  • 1/4 cup steak sauce
  • 1 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon hot sauce
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • 2 medium russet potatoes, peeled and diced
  • 1 cup mini carrots
  • 1 cup peas
  • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley

Instructions

  • Season beef with salt and pepper and coat with flour.
  • Heat a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add beef in 2 batches and cook until browned on all sides. Remove beef from Dutch oven and set aside.
  • Add the butter to the Dutch oven. Once melted, add onion and celery and cook for 5 minutes.
  • Add garlic and cook for 1 minute.
  • Add the water and scrape up any browned bits on the bottom. Add stewed tomatoes, steak sauce, Worcestershire sauce, sugar, hot sauce, thyme, basil and pepper. Return beef to the Dutch oven and bring everything to a simmer.
    Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 2 hours, stirring every now and then.
  • Add potatoes and carrots and cook for 30 minutes.
  • Add peas and parsley and cook for 5 minutes.
    Check for seasoning and add salt and pepper to taste.

Nutrition

Calories: 598kcal
Course: Soup
Cuisine: American
Keyword: beef stew

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49 thoughts on “Beef Stew Recipe”

  1. For someone who doesn’t know how to cook, and solely relies on cooking instructions, it would be wise to state to add olive oil to Dutch oven prior to adding meat. I’m fearful my stew will now taste burnt.

    1. Flavor was great but I had to keep adding water or else it would burn. The heat was on low. Not sure why this happened but I will try again. I do recommend this recipe. I didn’t have steak sauce and it still came out great tasting.

  2. David Milliard

    Russets tend to break down to mush in time. Use good old white potatoes. Gotta have carrots in a beef stew.

  3. This recipe was great! I had to make some substitutions because I didn’t have stewed tomatoes but I used two cans of petit diced instead.

  4. This looks great. I see carrots mentioned in the article but not the recipe. I’ll add anyway 😄

  5. Frank Mosley

    The ingredients say steaksauce and Worcestershire the directions only say steak sauce so do you add both

  6. Frank Mosley

    Do you add steak sauce and Worcestershire it doesn’t say both in directions in beef stew recipe

    1. Frank Mosley

      The ingredients say steaksauce and Worcestershire the directions only say steak sauce so do you add both

  7. yvonne m marteeny

    This looks great. One question though – I really don’t like stewed tomatoes. Do you think it would be OK if I simply omitted this ingredient?

    1. Christin
      Christin Mahrlig

      yes, I think you can leave them out. Or used diced tomatoes if you like them better. The petitie diced tomatoes are so small you barely notice them.

  8. Turned out wonderful !! Even my picky nine year old likes it. I did add a little extra steak sauce Worcestershire. Hit the spot.

    1. Sylvia Freeman

      I don’t see carrots I think you’re seeing the potatoes. I actually thought they were cut up squash.

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