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Slow Cooker Beef Stew
Recipe by:
kirstiem
This is a delicious beef stew made in a slow cooker. Use cheap cuts of meat to make this an economical meal.
Ready in 5 hours 30 minutes
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Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 2 medium onions
- 2 teaspoons oil
- 6 button mushrooms, quartered
- 4 medium carrots, peeled
- 1 cup beef stock
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 tablespoon tomato paste
- 600g cross cut blade steak
- 2 medium potatoes, peeled
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Preparation method
Prep: 20 minutes | Cook: 5 hours | Extra time: 10 minutes1.
Turn the slow cooker on to high.
2.
Slice the onions and brown in the oil in a non stick frying pan, adding the mushrooms when the onions have become transparent and light brown. When the mushrooms have coloured and wilted slightly, tip both vegetables into the slow cooker.
3.
Cut the carrots in half lenghtwise then into chunks 2cm long and add them to the onion mixture. Stir in the stock, Worcestershire sauce, sugar and tomato paste.
4.
Slice the beef into 1cm cubes, discarding the fat. Put the beef on top of the vegetables. Slice the potatoes into quarters and press down the side of the slow cooker bowl.
5.
Put the lid on the slow cooker and cook on high for 5 hours. About 20 minutes before serving, check to see if the gravy needs thickening. If so, thicken slightly with 2 tablespoons of cornflour, mixed to a thin paste with water.
Last updated:
17 Apr 2013
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Easy
Cooked this yesterday without the mushrooms and with the beer. It was excellent. Need to watch the cooker settings though as mine cooked it in half the time shown here.
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21 Jul 2012
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This is a good recipe, made it on the the weekend pretty easy to make. I used large potatoes cut into quarters which ended up being to large in my opinion, when I do it again I will make the potatoes bite size(about the same size as the carrot).
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31 May 2011
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Altered ingredient amounts.
I added a bottle of beer (Stella) and a packed of french onion soup mix. I skipped the mushrooms, as I didn't have any in the fridge at the time!
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07 May 2011
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My mum passed down our family slow cooker to me recently. I bought cheap meat cuts and incorporated two recipes I found on the webpage - see my variations. The family loved it, and couldn't stop talking how soft and juicy the meat was!
This dish will be added to the t0-do list again.
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07 May 2011
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Altered ingredient amounts.
i added more beef stock, tomato paste, sugar and worcestershire sauce to give it more flavour and stop the meat from drying out
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18 Apr 2011
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This was nice, potatoes and carrots came out perfect, some of the beef pieces were quite dry though. Could use a bit more flavour also. Overall it was nice, I will make it again.
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31 Oct 2010
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It was very very tasty stew. We used the leftover (very little) to make puff pie filling (baked in a pie bowl). It was superb good! Thanks for sharing.
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14 Jun 2010
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Bit bland so I added a packet of French Onion soup (Black and Gold 25g). Will make it again, very tasty.
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30 May 2010
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