Beef / Pork

Basic Beef Stew is for Dinner.

Basic Beef Stew takes 25 minutes to prepare.

Basic Beef Stew takes 90 minutes to cook.

Basic Beef Stew makes 8 servings.

The ingredients for Basic Beef Stew are:

1.33 pounds beef for stewing
4 medium potatoes peeled and cut into 1.5 inch cubes
4 carrots, peeled and cut into 0.5 inch slices
4 stalks of celery cut into 0.5 inch slices
0.5 large sweet onion (ex. Vidalia, Mayan Sweet, or Walla Walla), skin removed and cut into quarters
64 oz beef broth
16 oz water
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tablespoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon fresh ground pepper
2 teaspoons seasoned salt

Here is how you make Basic Beef Stew:

Using a one gallon Ziplock bag place flour, salt, pepper, and seasoned salt inside and shake to combine. Add beef pieces and shake to coat. Place oil into a large soup pot and place on medium high heat. When oil shimmers remove meat from bag and place in pot. Brown meat, stirring to brown all sides.Put onions into flour bag and shake to coat and separate. When beef is browned add onion to beef and stir. Cook for approximately five minutes. Add two cups of water followed by the beef broth. Then add remaining veggies and cover, cooking for 60 minutes. Stew is done when veggies are tender and the potatoes are not falling apart.Number of Servings: 8Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user SPRINGRHEY.

The nutritional information for Basic Beef Stew is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 8
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 377.2

• Total Fat: 12.2 g
• Cholesterol: 68.0 mg
• Sodium: 1,588.0 mg
• Total Carbs: 37.5 g
• Dietary Fiber: 4.7 g
• Protein: 29.0 g