Good For You
- Protein
- Vegetables
- Low-Sodium
Good For
- Weekend Meal
- Slow Cooker
Heart-Warming & Super Simple Beef Stew
This recipe is so tried and true, that the original from a friend only needed a conversation to remember how to make it.It’s that simple. And that good.
Ingredients
- 2 lbs round beef steak cubes or roast
- 1 onion sliced
- No-added-salt steak spice to taste
- ~6 medium potatoes halved
- ~6 medium carrots cut in thirds
- 1/2 turnip sliced or butternut squash, cubed; optional
- 2 small cans low-sodium vegetable juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Alternatively, set slow cooker on low; removing insert.
- Pour enough vegetable juice to coat the bottom of a roaster pan or slow cooker insert. Set remaining juice aside.
- Place beef evenly over juice. Sprinkle with steak spice.
- Layer sliced onion over meat.
- Peel and cut potatoes, carrots, and turnip/squash. Place around or on top of beef.
- Pour vegetable juice over all. Be sure to coat all potatoes to prevent them from turning brown.
- Rinse cans with a little water pouring this into the pan as well. Oven roasting will require ~1 and 1/2 cans of water; Slow cooker, a 1/2 can of water.
- Bake, covered, for 3 hours or until meat is tender and vegetables are soft.
- Or, cook in a slow cooker for ~8 hours, being careful not to lift the cover or cooking time will be longer.
Notes
Kitchen Tip: Resist peeking under the lid at your slow cooker meal as it cooks. Every lifting of the lid adds a 1/2 hour to your cooking time.
Nutrition Tip: Leaving salt out of the recipe allows each person to salt to taste at the table. It also gives opportunity to let your taste buds get used to less.
Thanks for the reminder of this simple but so delicious recipe. I should make thus soon. I love that it cooks so well in the slow cooker while I am at work. Nothing like coming home to the smell of dinner ready.
Yessss! I love opening the door to the smell of supper 🥰