Five Hour Beef Stew Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).
• Combine mushroom soup and water in a saucepan over low heat. Cook and stir until hot, 3 to 4 minutes.
• While soup is cooking, place meat in the bottom of a large casserole pan. Pour hot soup over top and toss to combine. Add potatoes, carrots, onions, and celery. Season with garlic powder, salt, and pepper.
• Cover casserole dish and cook in the preheated oven until meat is cooked through and tender, about 5 hours.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).
• Combine the cubed chuck, carrots, onions, brown sugar, wine, tapioca, tomatoes, tomato sauce in a large baking dish. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Bake at 250 degrees F (120 degrees C) for 4 hours. Remove from oven and add stir in the potatoes, water chestnuts and mushrooms.
• Raise oven temperature to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 1 more hour.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Place beef cubes into a large bowl. Season with kosher salt and black pepper. Add flour and paprika and toss until evenly coated.
• Heat oil in an oven-safe Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Sear the beef cubes in batches until dark brown, about 4 minutes per side. Flip or stir gently with a wooden spoon until all edges are dark brown, 2 to 3 minutes more. Remove beef and set aside.
• Add onions to the beef fat with more salt and pepper; cook and stir until they begin to caramelize, about 10 minutes. Add garlic and stir until aromatic and soft, about 30 seconds. Stir in tomato paste and cook until it turns brown and begins to caramelize and stick to the bottom of the pan. Deglaze with red wine, scraping up the flavorful browned bits on the bottom. Let the wine reduce until almost dry again, about 3 minutes.
• Add dried thyme, dried rosemary, herbes de Provence, and bay leaves. Add 2 cups beef broth and Worcestershire, stir, and bring to a boil. Add the seared beef cubes back into the stew liquid. Remove from heat and cover the pot.
• Braise in the preheated oven until meat is almost tender, about 1 1/2 hours. Remove from the oven. Add carrots, potatoes, and more beef broth if needed. Cover and return to the oven to braise until meat and vegetables are tender, about 30 minutes longer.
• Discard bay leaves. Stir in peas, fresh rosemary, and fresh thyme. Serve hot.

Steps:

• Season the stew meat with some of the salt and pepper and coat with flour. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, Sautee the beef and onions in the butter and oil until browned on the outside. Transfer the beef and onions to a stockpot and stir in the tomatoes, water and bouillon cubes. Season with garlic, parsley, thyme and remaining salt and pepper. Stir in the red wine.
• Cover soup and simmer for 1 1/2 hours before adding carrots, celery potatoes and pearl onions. Continue to simmer until potatoes are tender, about 1 hour.

Steps:

• Mix ingredients well in dutch oven and cover.
• Bake at 300 degrees for five hours.
• Do not peek.
• (I confess I do peek at about four hours to see if it's tender and thick enough!).

Steps:

• Mix--Cover tightly--Bake at 275* for 5 hours.
• Don't lift lid while it's cooking.

Steps:

• Combine all above ingredients into a large baking dish; cover with aluminum foil.
• Bake for 5 hours at 250 degrees-- NO PEEKING!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).
• Stir beef, potatoes, tomato-vegetable juice cocktail, carrots, celery, onion, tapioca, sugar, salt, and pepper together in a roasting pan; cover.
• Bake in preheated oven until beef and potatoes are tender, about 5 hours.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
• In a large bowl add all the ingredients and mix to combine. Place mixture in a baking dish, cover and bake for 5 hours. Do not uncover during baking time.
• Serve in bread bowls or with hard rolls.

Steps:

• Roughly chop garlic, onion and celery and then chop in a food processor; cut beef into small, 3/4 inch cubes or cut into strips, the size of index finger; heat oil in a Dutch oven and saute beef until browned.
• Add chopped vegetables from food processor, tomato paste, thyme, bay leaf, parsley, salt and pepper; stir well to mix; add stock and wine and bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 45 minutes.
• While meat is simmering, boil carrots and potatoes until tender-crisp, 5-10 minutes; drain and add to stew; add peas; the entire cooking time for the stew is 45 minutes; if stew is too thin, dissolve starch in 1 T cold water and whisk into stew; simmer 2-3 minutes and serve.