Family Favorite Beef Stew

From: Irish350

On Oct 20, 2009

I doubled this recipe. We loved this recipe. I did brown the meat ahead of time. I also parboiled some turnip. The turnip never softens up to our liking in the crockpot. I loved the addition of the V8 juice. It had fantastic flavor. I thought my old beef stew recipe was good...this surpassed that one.

From: Faithberry78

On Oct 7, 2009

Loved it, and the three kids ate it all up too!!! Didn't brown the meat or use flour. I just threw everything into a pot with water and boiled it for 40 minutes. Added celery too.

From: monagrays

On Sep 26, 2001

Everyone in my family and a couple of my neighbors tried and loved this beef stew. I used dehydrated onion in place of the onion soup mix and soy sauce replaced the worchestershire. I have never liked V8 Juice until I tried this recipe. Just the right amount of veggie taste was added!!! I procrastinated too long in the day and resorted to cooking on the stovetop which was about an hour and a half of simmering to tenderness.

From: Rose is Rose

On Jul 30, 2007

7/30/07 - We had about half of this left over. I made Sure Thing Pie Crust, Sure Thing Pie Crust, posted by MizzNezz, and made a pot pie with the left-overs. I baked it at 400 degrees for about 35 minutes. I set it on a jelly-roll pan with parchment paper underneath in case it cooked over. My husband thought he died and went to heaven! 7/23/07 - I'm not really crazy about Crockpot food, so I decided to make this on the stove. I dredged the meat in the flour and browned in a large cast iron skillet. After reading the reviews, I used water in place of the V8 juice and added 1/2 cup cooking sherry. I cooked the meat by itself for about an hour. After an hour, I put in the vegetables, along with 2 stalks of celery and cooked for approximately another hour. At the end, I thickened it with Wondra flour/cold water and added a small half package of frozen peas. It turned out excellent! What I really like about this recipe is that it makes a manageable amount for two people and uses 1 pound of meat instead of 1 1/2 pounds (I usually ask our meat market to put my orders into one pound increments). I think this is a recipe that can be lots of tomato or no tomato or somewhere in the middle — it's up to the cook! Doing it this way made enough to feed 5 hungry adults. You could even probably stretch it to 6 if you made biscuits to go with it. I also used the Copycat onion soup recipe; so that made it a very economical meal. Jennifer, thanks for posting your recipe! I think it is going to be my new "go to" beef stew recipe!