Beef / Pork

Homemade Sweet Potato Beef (or Lamb / Venison) Stew -- Slow Cooker is for Dinner.

Homemade Sweet Potato Beef (or Lamb / Venison) Stew -- Slow Cooker takes 20 minutes to prepare.

Homemade Sweet Potato Beef (or Lamb / Venison) Stew -- Slow Cooker takes 540 minutes to cook.

Homemade Sweet Potato Beef (or Lamb / Venison) Stew -- Slow Cooker makes 10 servings.

The ingredients for Homemade Sweet Potato Beef (or Lamb / Venison) Stew -- Slow Cooker are:

* 2 lb beef, cut into 1 inch cubes (you can use lamb or venison too. Use the "Chuck" cut of meat -- chuck roast/shoulder/top-chuck etc. Same for beef, lamb or venison)

* 1/3 cup all-purpose flour

* 1/2 tsp salt

* 1/2 tsp ground black pepper

* 2 cloves of minced garlic

* 1 whole bay leaf

* 1 tsp paprika

* 1 Tbsp Worcestershire Sauce

* 1/2 cup red wine (I prefer good old "2-buck Chuck" Charles Shaw cabernet)

* 1.5 cups organic beef broth

* 1 medium onion, chopped

* 3 medium sweet potatoes, cubed with their skins left on

* 4 medium or large carrots, peeled and cut into chunks

Here is how you make Homemade Sweet Potato Beef (or Lamb / Venison) Stew -- Slow Cooker:

1) Put the flour, paprika, salt and pepper into a gallon-sized bag and give a good shake. Add meat cubes and shake meat in bag until fully coated.2) Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet and saut? coated beef in oil to sear, until just brown all over the outside (still bloody inside is OK). Then put the meat into the slow cooker along with any remaining flour mixture in the bag.3) In a small bowl or shaker, mix the beef broth with the worcestershire, and add the red wine. Pour into the same hot skillet you used to saut? the beef and boil for a minute, then pour over beef in cooker.4) Add the chopped onion, potatoes, carrots and garlic and bay leaf to slow cooker; cover and cook on low 8 to 9 hours, or on high 4 to 6 hours.Serving Size: Makes eight (8) hearty servingsNumber of Servings: 10Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user NATURALATHLETE.

The nutritional information for Homemade Sweet Potato Beef (or Lamb / Venison) Stew -- Slow Cooker is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 10
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 394.9

• Total Fat: 20.2 g
• Cholesterol: 55.2 mg
• Sodium: 295.4 mg
• Total Carbs: 24.0 g
• Dietary Fiber: 4.9 g
• Protein: 28.3 g