Easy Beef Stew for Two
Easy Beef Stew for Two

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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. Traditionally beef stew has carrots, celery, onion, potatoes and peas.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy beef stew for two using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
  1. Take 1-2 lbs well marbled beef chuck shoulder, in 2" in chunks
  2. Prepare Salt & pepper to season
  3. Prepare 3 tablespoons olive oil
  4. Get 1 yellow onion, largely diced
  5. Prepare 3 cloves garlic, rough chopped
  6. Prepare 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  7. Take 1 tablespoon tomato paste
  8. Prepare Handful flour
  9. Prepare 3 cups beef broth
  10. Make ready 1 bay leave
  11. Prepare 1 teaspoon dried time
  12. Get Couple dashes of Worcestershire sauce
  13. Make ready 4-6 carrots, cut into 1" medallions
  14. Make ready 4-6 celery stalks,cut 1" pieces
  15. Prepare 1 large potato, skinned and cut into 1" pieces
  16. Get 1 (14.5 oz) can stewed tomatoes with juices
  17. Prepare 1/4 cup chopped parsley

This was a great recipe for just two people. Instead of using hamburger meat I used a can of roast beef with gravy. I rinsed off the gravy and shredded the beef chunks. This easy, flavorful beef stew recipe in the crock pot uses lean beef and carrots, potatoes, rosemary, and garlic.

Steps to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
  1. 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.
  2. In a large stock pot, heat a tablespoon of olive oil on med high heat until nearly smoking
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Add meat to back to the pan and dust liberally with flour. Stir to cook flour 2 minutes.
  6. Add broth, bay leaf, thyme, and Worcestershire. Reduce heat to low.
  7. Add vegetables and can tomatoes with juices. Stir and cover.
  8. Cook on a low simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally until meat is fork tender. Add parsley at the finish.
  9. Add more broth if needed or to thicken mix one tablespoon of flour with a little broth and add to pot and continue cooking.
  10. Check at the end for needed salt or pepper. Remove bay leaf before serving.

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