Easy Slow Cooker Beef Stew | One Pot Chef

you ask more slow cooker recipes and today I am delivering this is an incredibly delicious dish it's so simple it's an instant classic but on top of everything else it's got virtually no effort it's just a bit of vegetable chopping and a bit of meat chopping it's perfect for weeknights off just for a relaxed lazy Sunday afternoon you're going to absolutely love it it's my beef casserole other one-punch have making beef casserole in your slow-cooker is one of the simplest and most rewarding recipes you will ever learn now this is a very basic version but what I'm doing is giving you the basic version so you can sort of extend it by adding your own favorites to it as you like now first things first we've got obviously slow cooker crock pot we're going to throw in one brown onion which I've just chopped up lovely lovely I'm also adding in some garlic as per usual I'm doing it out of the jar now put in as much as you like I mean I like a fair bit of garlic as you all know so that's going in I'm also throwing in one large carrot which I've chopped up try to remember when it comes to the vegetables in a slow cooker the smaller the pieces the better they cook and the quicker they cook as well I'm also putting in three large potatoes these potatoes are about the size of a fist so chuck those in as well that's looking good already next goes in some lovely diced beef now I'm using about a half kilo of beef from this fair bit of blood in there too which is most extra flavor now as I said with the vegetables same as the meat you've got to have little small chunks in there that way they will cook nice and evenly and quickly and they will start to break apart and stuff in the slow cooker which helps to make this beautiful thick meaty gravy to go with it the next ingredient is optional and it is some bacon now as I've told you before if you don't want to use bacon or if you can't use bacon you are welcome to omit it in this case you can replace it with about a similar amount of mushrooms but I like to add bacon into these kind of casseroles because they have a nice smoky salty flavor which really helps to improve things I'm also adding in about a cup of tomato paste just plop it straight in also adding some Worcestershire sauce now I'm not doing an exact measurement I would say probably about tablespoon all up just sort of give it a splash I'm also going to add some purring as well just freshly scrapped lovely and some liquid ingredients now we're going to put in four cups of beef stock now this is where you can divert the recipe slightly you can use four cups of beef stock if you prefer if you like you can make that two cups of beef stock and two cups of red wine it just depends on your personal taste time for our final ingredient and some really an ingredient as such it's some corn flour about teaspoon which i've just mixed into some hot water I'm just going to pour that in and you're probably wondering why I'm doing this essentially the corn flour helps to thicken the sauce and it makes it absolutely amazing sort of it has no flavor so don't worry about having a flowery taste or anything so it will just meld straight in so what we're going to do is mix this up now that's pretty much zero effort you've got to love that so lid on you've got two options for cooking if you're using the low setting it'll be about five to six hours if you're using the high setting it'll be about two to three hours now just remember don't take the lid off just leave it on while it's cooking don't feel that overwhelming need to go and stir it or anything like that it's fine just leave it alone let's see what the results like this has been cooking away for a few hours now so let's take a look lid off whoa let's us thing that now look at that lovely meat and vegetables there that meat has started to break down so it's beautifully tender we've got those lovely tender potatoes and carrots there's a fair amount of sauce but don't worry because that will actually thicken up as the stew cools down slightly once we turn off the pot so that's looking fantastic and that's just ready to serve with some crusty bread you could serve it with some rice or some pasta absolutely amazing well I hope you've enjoyed this recipe check out my other videos of one pot chef show calm and as always the ingredients are down below and until next time see you later

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Length: 4min 58sec (298 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 18 2010