Beef Stew Recipe

Today we are here again with another mouth-watering, savory recipe for tender beef. This beef stew is packed with incredible flavours and nutrients. The fusion of tender beef, carrots, mushrooms, and potatoes make this beef stew a tempting dish to serve in front of your guests. You can make this recipe in big batch for family dinners or an event where friends get to gather.

Beef Stew Recipe

Serves: 8 People
Cooking time: 100 minutes
Level: Intermediate
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Ingredients

  • One kilogram beef chunks
  • One large chopped onion
  • Four pieces minced garlic cloves
  • One tablespoon tomato paste
  • One cup sliced mushrooms
  • Four large sliced carrots
  • One cup small potatoes
  • One quarter cup of all purpose flour
  • Six cups beef broth
  • Four tablespoon cooking oil
  • Two Pieces bay leaves
  • One table spoon dried thyme
  • Black pepper powder to taste
  • Salt to taste

Instructions

In a wide mixing bowl, add beef chunks. Then sprinkle salt and black pepper powder over it. Also, add flour to the bowl, now using a spatula or a spoon mix them thoroughly.

Seasoning the beef chunks
Seasoning the beef chunks

Secondly, heat a large pot over high heat. Once the pot is heated enough, pour 2 tbsp of vegetable oil into the pot. Let it heat, then add beef chunks into the pot for shallow frying. Cook them in small batches for 5 minutes or until they turn brown in color. Now, dish them out in a bowl and set aside for later use.

Shallow fry beef chunks

In another pan, pour two tablespoons of oil and heat it for a minute. Then add diced carrots, onions, minced garlic, and tomato paste to the pan. Sautee them for 5 minutes. Then set them aside for later use.

Sautee vegetables

In the large pot, pour beef broth and let it simmer on medium flame for 5 minutes. Then add sliced mushrooms into the pot and cook them for 10 minutes on a medium flame.

cook mushrooms

Then transfer the sauteed vegetable into the Mushroom pot. Give them a good mix for combining, now let them simmer on medium flame.

Add vegetables

Once after adding veggies, sprinkle spices in the pot. Add bay leaves and sprinkle thyme into the beef stew.

sprinkle spices

Then transfer the shallow fried beef into the pot. Mix them together with the help of a spoon ladle.

Add beef

Finally, add diced potatoes into the pot. Mix them together so that all items are submerged in beef broth.

Add potatoes

Then put the lid on the pot and reduce the flame to medium-low. Let it cook for one and a half hours or until the beef and potatoes are tender.

Cook for half hour on medium flame

After half hour of cooking on medium flame, your beef stew is ready. Garnish it with some fresh herbs. Then dish it out in a bowl to serve with pita bread or any of your favorite loafs.

Serve beef stew
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