Easy Beef Stew for Two
Easy Beef Stew for Two

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy beef stew for two using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
  1. Make ready 1-2 lbs well marbled beef chuck shoulder, in 2" in chunks
  2. Make ready Salt & pepper to season
  3. Take 3 tablespoons olive oil
  4. Prepare 1 yellow onion, largely diced
  5. Make ready 3 cloves garlic, rough chopped
  6. Make ready 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  7. Prepare 1 tablespoon tomato paste
  8. Make ready Handful flour
  9. Get 3 cups beef broth
  10. Make ready 1 bay leave
  11. Prepare 1 teaspoon dried time
  12. Get Couple dashes of Worcestershire sauce
  13. Get 4-6 carrots, cut into 1" medallions
  14. Take 4-6 celery stalks,cut 1" pieces
  15. Take 1 large potato, skinned and cut into 1" pieces
  16. Prepare 1 (14.5 oz) can stewed tomatoes with juices
  17. Take 1/4 cup chopped parsley

In a large skillet, brown meat in oil on all sides. Add the water, tomato sauce, broth, potato, onion, carrots, red pepper, soup mix, Worcestershire sauce, rosemary, garlic powder, pepper and remaining thyme. Season the beef on both sides with salt and pepper. In a large Dutch oven over medium heat, heat vegetable oil.

Instructions to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
  1. Trim any large fat caps off your meat and cube meat into large bites, season liberally with salt and pepper. Set aside. The salt will encourage natural sugars to come to meats surface for better browning.
  2. In a large stock pot, heat a tablespoon of olive oil on med high heat until nearly smoking
  3. In three batches, pat meat dry and drop into hot pan and sear each side a couple minutes to get a dark brown crust. Do not crowd all the meat into the pan or it will simply steam. Add more oil for each batch. Set browned meat aside.
  4. Add onion, then garlic to the pan and saute a couple minutes. Add balsamic and tomato paste and stir a minute longer. Scrape any bits from bottom of pan.
  5. Add meat to back to the pan and dust liberally with flour. Stir to cook flour 2 minutes.
  6. Add broth, bay leaf, thyme, and Worcestershire. Reduce heat to low.
  7. Add vegetables and can tomatoes with juices. Stir and cover.
  8. Cook on a low simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally until meat is fork tender. Add parsley at the finish.
  9. Add more broth if needed or to thicken mix one tablespoon of flour with a little broth and add to pot and continue cooking.
  10. Check at the end for needed salt or pepper. Remove bay leaf before serving.

Season the beef on both sides with salt and pepper. In a large Dutch oven over medium heat, heat vegetable oil. The recipe uses lean beef round or lean chuck, along with vegetables and herbs. This beef stew can be the center of a romantic meal with a green salad as the first course, and crusty rolls or a baguette to soak up more of the stew. Red wine pairs very well with beef stew.

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