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Prep time
25 minutes -
Cook time for dinner
8 hours 15 minutes -
Serves
4
Creator Notes
To make beef stew in the Crockpot, the one thing you wish is a minute little bit of time. Nonetheless in many strategies that is the usefulness of this recipe, and all late-cooker meals. Too generally we do now not make the honour between meals that takes a truly long time to cook dinner and meals that takes a truly long time to prep. Determined, there’s a minute little bit of searing in step one right here, but after that, it’s on the entire a dump, set aside, and put out of your mind subject. This implies that, in the morning forward of labor, that you just can well also prep the substances (beef chuck roast, or without reference to stew meat you want; root greens love carrots and potatoes; mushrooms and pearl onions; beef broth; and about a various aromatics), set aside it fascinated about 8 hours in the Crock-Pot, and have dinner waiting for you would possibly want to you come dwelling.
This late-cooker beef stew recipe does no longer have a slurry of thickened corn starch—for provocative cause: The chuck roast chunks, again, have already been floured, which helps thicken the stew a minute bit later, but furthermore it’s the looser, cleaner-tasting gravy that works well with a side of white rice versus the identical outdated heavy, dense mashed potato pairing. That acknowledged, feel free to support this beef stew with without reference to you want, and add without reference to greens you take hold of. Somewhat than carrots and potatoes, strive parsnips and turnips. And when you occur to’re fashioned to the thicker gravy, correct add a slurry of broth and corn starch in the closing 30 minutes of cooking, or gallop in a minute bit more flour on the pause.
This recipe is definitely correct a blueprint, so strive no longer to stress about it. The nature of a stew is that there are no principles—only personal taste. —Max McDonough
Test Kitchen Notes
This late-cooker recipe is portion of our Situation It & Omit It sequence. —The Editors
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Arrangement
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1 pound
beef chuck roast, nick into 1-fade cubes
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1 1/2 tablespoons
kosher salt, divided
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1/2 teaspoon
freshly floor sad pepper, divided
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1 tablespoon
all-cause flour, for coating beef
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1 tablespoon
olive oil, for searing beef
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3
trim carrots, peeled and nick into 2-fade pieces
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1
stick celery, nick into 2-fade pieces
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2
medium russet potatoes, nick into 1-fade cubes
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12
pearl onions, peeled
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4
garlic cloves, minced
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1 cup
cremini mushrooms, halved
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1 teaspoon
Worcestershire sauce, plus more to taste
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2 cups
beef broth
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2 cups
cooked white rice, for serving
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1/4 cup
fresh flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped, for garnish
Directions
- Season beef generously with 1 tablespoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper, then coat in flour. In a trim skillet, heat olive oil over medium-high and sear beef on every side, about 7 minutes. Switch to late cooker.
- Add carrots, celery, potatoes, onions, garlic, and mushrooms to late cooker, besides. Season with remaining salt and pepper, and add the Worcestershire sauce. Add broth and gallop collectively gently.
- Cook dinner on low for 8 hours, or till potatoes are mute and beef is topple-apart succulent. Adjust seasonings and gravy consistency as desired (peep Creator Notes). Serve over rice and garnish with parsley.