Nothing is much more comforting on a rainy or cool day than Beef Stew. Here sharing her recipe is my friend, Mary, from The Encouraging Home. Thanks Mary!
I love beef stew or stew beef…however you say it. Meat, potatoes, and carrots ~ a comfort food that I love. This is an easy, yummy meal. Sometimes I cook the beef with vegetables, other times I just cook the meat and serve it over noodles or rice.
First, place diced potatoes, carrots, and celery in the crockpot. Add however many that you like.
Add the meat ~ a roast or stew beef cubes.
Next, add dry onion soup mix. You can learn how to make your own homemade onion soup mix that doesn’t contain MSG here.
Add ¼ cup Worcestershire Sauce. Look for one that doesn’t have high fructose corn syrup.
Add ¼ cup apple cider vinegar. Add salt and pepper.
Sometimes I add a can of Cream of Chicken soup to give it a little different taste. Find out how to make your own healthy cream of chicken soup here.
Add water 1 – 2 cups, depending on how soupy you like it.
Cover and cook on high 4-6 hours or low 8-12 hours.
This stew is not very “stewy” …more of a meat and vegetables meal to eat with a fork.
Enjoy!!
Crockpot Beef Stew
Ingredients:
- Stew Beef Cubes or Roast
- Potatoes
- Carrots
- Celery
- Salt
- Pepper
- ¼ cup Worchester Sauce
- 1 packet Lipton Onion Soup Mix or homemade without MSG
- ¼ apple cider vinegar
- 1 – 2 cups water
- Optional: 1 can Cream of Chicken soup or homemade Cream of Chicken Soup
Directions:
- Slice vegetables and place in crockpot.
- Add meat and remaining ingredients.
- Cover. Cook on high 4-6 hours or low 8-12 hours.
Mary is a farm girl and homeschooling mom to 2 sons. She has been married to her husband for almost 14 years. She is passionate about her faith and attempts to find a balance in home life, farm life, homeschooling, and healthy living. She blogs at The Encouraging Home, where she talks about faith, family, homeschooling, healthy living the natural way through essential oils, living clay, and T-Tapp.
We’re having a few VERY cold days in the NC mountains. This will be just perfect! 🙂
That March weather is so fickle.
I love a good beef stew and the homemade onion soup mix sounds like just the thing to give it a good hearty flavor! Thanks for sharing this with Sunday Night Soup Night, look forward to seeing you again soon!
I love having “convenience” foods at home. 🙂
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This looks fantastic, warming, and perfect for breastfeeding and pregnant women. Would you be willing to post this on my natural food blog, superfood sundays at ……
http://www.painfreepregnancy.org/2012/05/superfood-sunday-may-6th-2012.html
Thanks!!
This beef stew sounds wonderful – you’ve used lots of lovely flavours in it. Beef stew really is one of the ultimate comfort foods. I also like the homemade onion soup mix. We can’t get dry onion soup mix here in the UK, so it’s a great recipe for me to have on hand.
I love having a good, long list of comfort foods! 🙂
This cracked me up! I have an Amish cookbook and we use a recipe from it every Thanksgiving. It is PA Dutch Potato Filling. It is just like this one – no amounts, just a list of stuff and you decide how much. I am making this today for tomorrow dinner.
Denise
LOL Those types of recipes can either give you great freedom, or drive you bananas. “Bake in a moderate oven.” WHAT?! 😉
Yummy! I love beef stew, but i don’t make it very often. This recipe looks easy and delicious!
And EASY is how you roll!
So sorry, I do not like using Lipton soup mixes or Chicken soup mixes in anything…. 🙁
Oops, this is my mistake! 🙂 If you read the post above, you’ll see that Mary gives the links to homemade Lipton mix (to avoid MSG) and homemade Cream of Chicken Soup (for the same reason). I put the links in the original post, but I forgot to add them to the recipe. Thanks! 🙂