Recipe: Tasty Stew Beef

Stew Beef. This beef stew is the ultimate, hearty, melt-in-your mouth comfort food of all, and so easy to make in the Instant Pot® for a simple midweek dinner. Beef stew meat breaks down and becomes more tender the longer you cook. Two hours is typically the sweet spot for beef stew unless you're cooking a slow-cooker stew.

Heat olive oil in a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Beef stew is a cold weather essential. Read on to get all the hot deets on this ultra-comforting stew. You can cook Stew Beef using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Stew Beef

1. It's 1 3/4 lb of boneless beef stew.
2. It's 4 tbsp of olive oil OR butter.
3. Prepare 3/4 cup of flour.
4. Prepare 1 tsp of black pepper.
5. You need 1 tsp of onion powder.
6. You need 2 tsp of paprika.
7. It's 1 tsp of garlic salt.
8. It's 1 large of onion, chopped.
9. Prepare 2 cup of boiling beef broth OR boiled water + 1 tsp seasoned salt.
10. Prepare 1 cup of red wine.
11. You need 5 medium of red potatoes, cubed.
12. You need 1 1/2 cup of baby carrots.
13. You need 1 of celery stalk, 1" slices.
14. Prepare 1 of egg noodles, cooked.

Add beef, a few pieces at a time, and toss to coat. Remove the beef from the pot and add the vinegar and wine. Cook over medium-high heat, scraping the pan with a wooden spoon to loosen any browned bits. Add the beef, beef broth and bay leaves.

Stew Beef step by step

1. Place olive oil or butter in crock pot, heat on high 15 minutes..
2. In bowl with tight fitting lid, mix flour and spices..
3. Toss meat in flour mixture, place in pot; reserve leftover flour mixture..
4. Place onion in pot with meat while cutting other vegetables..
5. Whisk remaining flour into HOT beef broth OR seasoned salt; pour into pot..
6. Pour red wine into pot..
7. Place vegetables in pot..
8. Cook on high an additional hour, turn temperature to low and cook 6-8 hours..
9. Serve over hot egg noodles..

Bring to a boil, then reduce to a slow simmer. Stew meat is made from cuts of beef with lots of tough connective tissue, namely chuck and/or round. When you simmer it in a liquid, the connective tissue breaks down and becomes melt-in-your. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Ethiopian Beef Stew- You won't believe how much flavor is packed into such a simple dish.