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This easy red wine-braised beef stew is the ultimate one-pot meal. Many stew recipes call for cooking the meat and vegetables at the same time, leaving the vegetables overcooked and mushy. Not if you use a tender cut of beef, cube the meat the night before and use ingredients already in your freezer and pantry.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have easy beef stew for two using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
- Prepare 1-2 lbs well marbled beef chuck shoulder, in 2" in chunks
- Prepare Salt & pepper to season
- Take 3 tablespoons olive oil
- Take 1 yellow onion, largely diced
- Get 3 cloves garlic, rough chopped
- Take 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- Prepare 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- Take Handful flour
- Take 3 cups beef broth
- Get 1 bay leave
- Take 1 teaspoon dried time
- Get Couple dashes of Worcestershire sauce
- Make ready 4-6 carrots, cut into 1" medallions
- Make ready 4-6 celery stalks,cut 1" pieces
- Get 1 large potato, skinned and cut into 1" pieces
- Get 1 (14.5 oz) can stewed tomatoes with juices
- Get 1/4 cup chopped parsley
This crock pot beef stew for two recipe takes only some prep work in the morning and then. This easy beef stew recipe is a classic slow-cooked dish with chuck roast, carrots, celery, and potatoes simmered in a rich red-wine sauce. For ground beef, keep refrigerated and use within one to two days. It can stay in its original container if the packaging hasn't been opened.
Instructions to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
- Trim any large fat caps off your meat and cube meat into large bites, season liberally with salt and pepper. Set aside. The salt will encourage natural sugars to come to meats surface for better browning.
- In a large stock pot, heat a tablespoon of olive oil on med high heat until nearly smoking
- In three batches, pat meat dry and drop into hot pan and sear each side a couple minutes to get a dark brown crust. Do not crowd all the meat into the pan or it will simply steam. Add more oil for each batch. Set browned meat aside.
- Add onion, then garlic to the pan and saute a couple minutes. Add balsamic and tomato paste and stir a minute longer. Scrape any bits from bottom of pan.
- Add meat to back to the pan and dust liberally with flour. Stir to cook flour 2 minutes.
- Add broth, bay leaf, thyme, and Worcestershire. Reduce heat to low.
- Add vegetables and can tomatoes with juices. Stir and cover.
- Cook on a low simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally until meat is fork tender. Add parsley at the finish.
- Add more broth if needed or to thicken mix one tablespoon of flour with a little broth and add to pot and continue cooking.
- Check at the end for needed salt or pepper. Remove bay leaf before serving.
Easy Beef Stew is a classic meal, made with beef, potatoes, carrots and onions, coated in a flavorful sauce. Made on the stove top in a single stock pot. This easy beef stew is simple, using easy to find ingredients. And yet, the flavor is astounding. It will become a fast favorite in your winter recipe.
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