Chunks of Certified Angus Beef® brand, stew meat simmered in a beefy gravy and surrounded by your basic stew ingredients: carrots, potatoes, peas, and onions. Beef stew is a filling and comforting meal to serve during the crisp fall days!
When I told Grumpy I was going to "wing it" and make a basic stew and just throw it together the way I thought a beet stew should be, he became concerned. Grumpy was always a "stew starter" kind of guy before me. I grew up in a home where packaged products like that were not found in our pantry and Mom would make everything from scratch! That's right, this girl was not brought up on processed mixes so it's not in my nature to think of using it.
Serve this stew up with some homemade dinner rolls or a slice or two of homemade soft white bread to sop up all that flavorful gravy. Finish it all off with by making this easy Magic Pudding Dessert!
Basic Beef Stew
Ingredients
- 1 lb. beef stew meat
- 1 large garlic clove minced
- ½ medium onion diced
- 2 large carrots chunked
- 3 cups beef broth
- 1 teaspoon gravy master
- 10 baby potatoes cut in half
- ½ bag frozen peas
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ cup water
- 2 tablespoons flour
Instructions
- Heat non-stick skillet over medium heat. Spray lightly with cooking spray. Add stew beef, season with salt and pepper and cook until browned, 3-4 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Add onion and garlic to the same pan you cooked the beef in and cook 3-4 minutes, or until onion becomes soft.
- Add stew beef, beef broth, gravy master, potatoes, carrots, thyme, and oregano to the pan and bring to a boil. Turn heat down to low and gently boil the veggies until they are just tender.
- Add frozen peas and simmer just a couple minutes more. Mix the flour and water together until smooth, then stir into gently boiling stew. It should thicken fairly quickly.
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Pegasuslegend
love how the light hits that stew looks salivating great! yummo!
Peggy Clyde
I'm not a very good stew or soup maker, but I think I can make this stew. Thanks.
Michele O'Donnell
This looks delish! We have beef stew 2 or 3 times a month. We never use a recipe and it always turns out great.
bellini
It has been a while since I made stew as well Shelby. The winter and comfort food is not over yet, even if I was wishing otherwise.
RebekahRose
I love beef stew with a good hearty homemade bread! Yumm! Great for those cool evenings. 🙂
teresa
love your new blog header, how cute! this beef stew looks wonderful! just the thing for a cold day.
Kathleen
Hey Shelby! Love your new look! This beef stew looks delish and your photos are beautiful!!!
Pam
The stew looks hearty, healthy, and delicious.
Grandma Kat @ Easy Recipes Land
I'm soo excited to try out this new recipe! I have my great grand children coming over this weekend and I think I'm going to run to the grocery store and get the ingredients to this recipe right now.
Who doesn't love beef stew? Thanks so much for this recipe.
Grandma Kat
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From Valeries Kitchen
I always crave beef stew at this time of year. We are having unusually warm weather here in Northern CA but I believe it's supposed to get very chilly this weekend. This is looking really good for the cold weather coming!
Anonymous
Man that looks tasty!