In this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt I will teach you how to make beef stew in the crockpot. When it is cold outside, there is something nice about having a nice bowl of hot beef stew to warm up the belly. This easy stew takes little preparation, and if you start it in the morning, it will be ready for dinner. Enjoy!
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Beef Stew Recipe –
4 to 5 potatoes (add potato per person, plus one extra)
1 pound of carrots (baby carrots, or diced carrots, peeled)
1 yellow onion
1 beef stew mix (super cheap usually under a dollar)
celery (optional)
4 to 6 cups of water
salt
pepper
garlic powder
Knife
cutting board
Crockpot
wooden spoon
Basically pour all the ingredients into your crockpot and let it cook on low for 8 hrs or high for 4 hours. Simple as that.
Transcript:
Hello and welcome to In the Kitchen with Matt, I am your host Matt Taylor. It is November, and uh, the weather is starting to get cold, and here in Arizona, here in Phoenix, it means that it has dipped below 70 degrees. Gotta get out my parka. So need something warm to eat, so what I am going to do is show you how to make a beef stew. Great for a cold day, really easy to do, let’s get started. For the ingredients, we have a crock-pot, we have 5 potatoes here, and I would use one extra potato per person you want to serve. I have a beef stew mix, these stew mixes are usually really cheap, this one was 69 cents. Great value makes it really easy to make a good stew. I have a package of carrots; this is a one-pound bag of carrots. I have a package of stew meat, this is really nice, it came all cut up for me. And this is about a pound and a quarter, and I got a yellow onion. I have a knife, crock-pot, and cutting board. First what I am going to do is cut up my potatoes. Now I previously had washed these, you can peel them if you like, I don’t like to peel mine, I like to keep them as is. So I am just going to cut it right down the middle like this, and then I am going to take it on its side like this, and then go down the middle, and then take it to the side like this, and just. Ok I have all my potatoes cut and put in here, now it is time to cut up the onion, umm so what I am going to do is take my onion and cut off the tips here, like that, and then take off the peel, the outer two layers or so. Ok, then we just cut up our onion; again you can make these whatever size you want. Always put the flat side down so it doesn’t move around on you. And then just come in here like this, and go in, about like that. Now let’s go ahead and put potatoes and our onion in our crockpot and then we will add our carrots and stew meat, then we will mix up our beef stew mix. All right, so we are going to add our potatoes, there we go, then we are going to come in here and add our onions like that, great, and we will take our package of carrots here and open that up, and you don’t have to use as many carrots as I am, I like a lot of carrots. Just use whatever you want to do. Like that. All right, and we will take our meat, and open that up. Yummy. Great. Now what we do is take about 2 cups of water, open up our package of beef stew mix, pour it in there. And with a fork we will give it a good mix. Ok, we then add our liquid, and we add another couple cups of water. Ok, and we will come in here and mix this together like this. So we wind up adding about 4 to 5 cups of water. And I am going to add some more salt, I don’t have a specific amount on this, just add a little bit more of salt at the beginning here, and then salt to taste at the end. A little bit of pepper, and some garlic powder. Give it a good stir. Ok then we just cover it up, ok now depending on how much time you have, if you have a full 8 hours let’s go ahead and set it on low. If you only have about 4 to 5 hours, let’s set it on high. And there you go, and if you have let’s say 6 hours, then set it on high for 2 hours and then set it down to low for the remaining 4 hours. All right now let’s let it cook, and let it sit there, and once it is done, I will show you how it looks like. And when we are done, it will look something like that, depending on how much water you have. All right our Beef Stew is done, it smells amazing, my whole house smells like stew. I am really excited to dive it. It couldn’t be easier, you just cut up your stuff, and put it in there, and turn it on, and it is as simple as that.
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