Hearty slow cooker meals are perfect for the chilly days ahead. This flavorful Slow Cooker Beef Stew is a household favorite and so easy to make for any weeknight meal!
It’s hard to believe that the winter months are almost upon us. (OK, I feel like I should specify here since some of y’all are dealing with some winter-like conditions right now. I live in Texas, and winter arrives around mid-December most of the time… so we’ve yet to experience anything too crazy yet.)
Either way, I don’t know about y’all, but this time of year is when I am in search of something comforting for dinner.
Today, I have the perfect comfort dish for y’all. It can easily be made the morning of, seared off, tossed into the slow cooker to do its thing all day and then it’s ready for you to eat when you get home from work.
It’s a quick dish to pull together, and it’s super cozy for a chilly winter’s night.
This soup requires a little prep time, and you can cook it up to 12 hours when it’s finally in the slow cooker. And if you don’t have time to sear everything off? Toss it all into the slow cooker, create a slurry with the flour and wine, pour that in, then add the beef stock, and you should be good to go, too.
Interested in making this for your fam? Here’s how you do it:
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 1/4 lb. beef stew meat
- 2 onions, diced
- 3 carrots, diced
- 4 celery stalks, chopped
- 1/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 cup red wine
- 6 cups beef broth
- 2 large russet potatoes, chopped
Instructions
- Season the beef liberally with salt and pepper.
- In a large skillet over medium-high, sear the beef in the olive oil until all sides of the meat are browned. Remove from the skillet, and transfer to the slow cooker.
- In the same skillet, sauté the onions, carrots and celery until they've cooked down slightly.
- Add the flour to the skillet, and stir it into the vegetables, cooking for another three minutes until the raw flour flavor has cooked out of them.
- Deglaze the skillet with the red wine, and let the wine cook down.
- Transfer the vegetables and wine to the slow cooker.
- Pour the beef broth on top of the vegetables and meat.
- Cook for 8+ hours on the low setting.
- Thirty minutes before serving, turn up the heat to high and add the russet potatoes.
- Serve warm, and enjoy!
What kinds of comforting dishes do you crave during the winter months?
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