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.