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Guinness Beef Stew in a Crock Pot
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- Ready In:
- 8hrs 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 23
- Serves:
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10
ingredients
- 8-10 red potatoes, skin on, quartered
- 6 carrots, peeled, sliced into thick chunks
- 2 stalk celery, cut in chunks
- 3 bay leaves
- 1360.77 g stew meat, cubed (I used chuck)
- 118.29 ml flour
- 0.25 ml salt
- 0.25 ml pepper
- 0.25 ml garlic powder
- 29.58-44.37 ml olive oil
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 4 large garlic cloves, minced
- 226.79 g baby portabella mushrooms, halved
- 2 (453.59 g) can tomato sauce
- 304.75 g beef broth (I used consomme)
- 13 g envelope Lipton Onion Soup Mix
- 4.92 ml dried thyme
- 2.46 ml black pepper
- 2.46 ml garlic powder
- 4.92 ml creole seasoning (Tony Chachere's)
- 4.92 ml Italian herb seasoning (Mrs. Dash)
- 340.19 g beer (Guinness, draught or stout)
- 236.59 ml frozen peas, if desired
directions
- Put potato, carrot, and celery chunks in the bottom of crock pot. Top with 2 bay leaves.
- Season flour with a dash of salt, pepper and garlic powder and coat the beef with the flour mixture. Heat a couple of tbsp of olive oil over med-high heat in a large skillet and add 1 bay leaf. Sauté beef in batches, just until browned.(It took me about 3 batches in a 12" skillet). Add more oil to pan as necessary for each batch. Remove and set aside.
- Add onion and garlic to the same pan and sauté over med heat for a few minutes, then add about half the can of beef broth to deglaze, scraping up the brown bits on the bottom of the pan. (That's Flavor!).
- Add meat and onions to crock pot, top with mushrooms.
- Mix remaining beef broth with tomato sauce, onion soup mix, remaining seasonings, and add to crock pot. Pour in most of bottle of beer (whatever fits, I had a few sips left for me).
- Cook 8 hours on low heat. Stir in frozen peas when done, they'll heat up on their own.
- Serve with crusty French bread!
- *Tony Chachere's and Mrs. Dash are my "go-to" seasonings for everything. You can use your favorite if these are not available.
Questions & Replies
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I made this recipe today and followed it to the letter. It smells so wonderful in the crockpot. I just tasted it after eight hours of slow cooking and the gravy tastes slightly bitter to me. Has anyone else felt the same way? Can I add cocoa or sugar to sweeten it slightly? Maybe I'm just not used to the beer flavor. I did use a Guinness stout.
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Reviews
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I love this stew, it is the best I have ever had! Tried it both with Guinness stout and draught (and once with Murphy's Irish Stout, and using a stout beer is the way to go. Gives it a richer flavor, not that flavor is lacking in this recipe. Works great in a crock pot, but I love it in a cast iron dutch oven too! You can use it to brown the meat and add the other ingredients and just pop it in the oven, I did 3 hours at 300 degrees but I am sure time/temp can be successfully tweaked. Thanks c.walsh for this recipe, I have passed it on to many family members!
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I made this in a Dutch oven and cooked at 300 for about 5 hours. It was delicious. I used about a bag of the small baby carrots and just cut them in half. Cut the potatoes a little smaller since a quarter of a potato seemed really big. It totally filled the pot so I had a little spill over in the oven but it thickened up just right to be a nice stew and the meat was so tender. I just used the package of stew beef from the store,
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Ah,maze,ing!!!! So good and I didn't follow exactly. I used Guinness Draught with bouillon cubes and water; no strong beer taste at all. I also dubbed diced tomatoes instead of sauce (out) and no onions (out). It turned out so good! It cooked all day on low; about 10 hours. Peas added a nice texture. I also steamed cabbage and put some pieces on top after putting in bowls. Had with Irish Soda Bread. DELISH!!!!! A must for St Paddys day or any day!
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Tweaks
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Ah,maze,ing!!!! So good and I didn't follow exactly. I used Guinness Draught with bouillon cubes and water; no strong beer taste at all. I also dubbed diced tomatoes instead of sauce (out) and no onions (out). It turned out so good! It cooked all day on low; about 10 hours. Peas added a nice texture. I also steamed cabbage and put some pieces on top after putting in bowls. Had with Irish Soda Bread. DELISH!!!!! A must for St Paddys day or any day!