Beef Stew

From: SmallTownGirl

On Nov 21, 2009

I made this in a Crock-pot. This was easy and a good way to make stew in a Crock-pot as well as the oven. For 1 3/4 lb beef stew meat I used a sliced sweet onion, 1 very large pasrnip, 2 med. carrots and 3 potatoes cut into bite sized pieces and placed under the beef cubes. Used the soups recommended and used only 1/2 cup of red wine to compensate for liquid reduction necessary for slow cooker cooking. I did not need any thickening agent, great as it was. Thank you for posting this nice stew recipe.

From: jdubb07

On Nov 1, 2009

Very good! I added baby carrots, baby onions and peas. I was going to make mashed potatoes to serve this over but I was too lazy by the time this was done cooking so we just ate it by itself and it was fantastic, even without the potatoes! It was super easy to make and so yummy!!!! I can't wait to make it again! I would say the servings are more like 4-6 instead of 6-8 though. Thanks for the GREAT recipe!

From: Nat Da Brat

On Feb 5, 2003

This was delicious. It's so easy, it's hard to beleive how good of a stew it makes. Followed recipe, putting in 6 potatoes (quartered), 3 small yellow onions (quartered), 1 small bag of baby carrots (halved) and about 1/2 cup of frozen peas. When it was time to put the veggies in, I added 1 can of beef consomme, not necessarly for flavor (it tasted great already), but because, we like our stew to have lots of "gravy", also 3 small whole cloves of garlic. Sprinkled with fresh black pepper and it was The Best! Thanks this is my new stew recipe from now on!

From: BoxO'Wine

On Feb 14, 2003

made this stew last night and also added 1 cup beef broth as we like a lot of gravy. The stew had an excellent flavor and the meat was very tender. I used cream of celery soup as i did not have mushroom soup on hand. The veggies were a bit too crisp for our taste so the next time I make this, i will follow recipe exactly except i will cook on top of stove instead of oven so i can easily monitor the consistency of the potatoes and carrots thanks for posting