Crock Pot Beef Stew
This is an easy beef stew recipe that your family will love.
Servings: 8 servings
Ingredients
- 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of lean beef chuck or stew meat, cut in bite-sized pieces
- 1/2 cup flour
- 3 tablespoons cooking oil or bacon drippings
- 3 or 4 carrots cut in pieces
- 4 or 5 medium potatoes peeled and cut in chunks
- 3 stalks of celery cut in inch sized pieces
- 1 medium onion peeled and cut in pieces
- 1 cup frozen peas Optional
- 4 cups beef broth or 2 14.5 ounce cans
- 1 14.5 ounce can beef gravy
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- Pinch of cayenne
- Few drops of hot sauce Optional
- 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 10 3/4 ounce can cream of mushroom soup undiluted
- 2 bay leaves
Instructions
- Dredge the stew meat in the flour and brown in oil on top of the stove. (Keep any leftover flour to thicken stew, if needeAdd meat to crock pot along with carrots, potatoes, celery, onion, and peas. Mix together beef broth, beef gravy, salt, pepper, cayenne, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder and mushroom soup with a wire whisk.
- Pour over meat and vegetables in the crock pot, add bay leaves and cook on high 4 hours or low 8 hours or until vegetables are done. (If you want a thicker gravy remove some of the liquid about 25 minutes before serving, add a couple tablespoons of the leftover flour from dredging the meat and return to crock pot to thicken the gravy). Remove bay leaves.