Comfy Beef Stew With A Brew
From conner909 16 years ago
- 240 minutes to make
- Serves 8
I featured this dish in a local newspaper article recently because it was right after the holidays and we were all sugared out! It is not complicated, but does take a little time due to the browning of the meat pieces. Read more Browning the beef first, enriches the entire dish. Dumplings can be added towards the very end of the cooking process. This is comfort food at its best, on cold wintery nights! It's well worth it! See less
Ingredients
- 3 ½ lbs. stew beef, cut into bite-size pieces shopping list
- 1 ½ cups flour shopping list
- bacon grease or oil shopping list
- 2 teaspoons salt shopping list
- 1 teaspoon fresh ground pepper shopping list
- ½ teaspoon granulated garlic shopping list
- 1 or 2 bay leaves shopping list
- carrots, quantity to taste shopping list
- 1 cup diced onion shopping list
- 2 celery ribs, diced shopping list
- Diced potatoes, quantity to taste. shopping list
- 2 tbsp. worcestershire sauce shopping list
- 3 cups boiling water shopping list
- 2 tbsp. tomato paste shopping list
- 1 can beer or beef broth shopping list
How to make it
- Mix flour with salt, pepper and garlic.
- Dredge beef cubes in flour mixture.
- In a Dutch oven, melt bacon grease and quickly brown in batches.
- (If you purchase stewing beef cubes, your prep time for browning will be approx. 30 minutes.)
- While browning the beef, cut up carrots, onion and celery into bite-sized pieces.
- When browning is complete, return all the browned beef to the Dutch oven and add boiling water, Worcestershire sauce, tomato paste, bay leaf/leaves and beer or broth.
- Bring to a boil; partially cover and lower heat to simmer and cook for 2 hours.
- Add carrots, onions and potatoes and cook another 1 ½ - 2 hours. Season to taste.
- Serves 6 to 8. Servings vary depending on your guests’ appetites!
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Sounds great! Any recipe that contains bacon grease in it is worth a try in my book :)
Thanks for the post.
donman
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Just the way my momma taught me!! Delicious post, dear.
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Definitely use the beer! Yummy!
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