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This crockpot beef stew recipe made with onions, carrots, potatoes and peas is warming and comforting for cold days. This slow cooker beef stew is the perfect low maintenance meal for chilly fall and winter nights. Full of cozy flavor and hearty ingredients, this beef stew recipe will warm you up from the inside out.
The stew with potatoes and peas is a second course of our culinary tradition, but many times, when you have to cook, you have difficulties, both for the preparation and for the cooking.
Today, in fact, we will see the recipe for preparing stew with potatoes and peas, using all those cooking techniques to obtain a tender and succulent stew and also with potatoes and peas that maintain their consistency during cooking.
The first tip is to use a good quality beef stew, so you can get advice from your butcher on which is the best cut of meat he has available to prepare the stew. I tell you this, because often there are meats that have not been aged properly and therefore, being a preparation that requires prolonged cooking, it can be prepared with different types of meat such as round, shoulder, real cut or belly.
How to Make Beef Stew In the Slow Cooker
Youโll find the full, step-by-step recipe below โ but hereโs a brief overview of what you can expect when you make this slow cooker beef stew:
- Combine ingredients: Place the beef dusted with flour in the slow cooker, salt, and pepper. Add the water or broth, vegetables, onion and bay leaf. Stir to combine. Choose your favorite spices.
- Set slow cooker: Cover the Crock-Pot and cook on Low for 8 to 12 hours or on High for 4 to 6 hours.
What to Serve With Slow Cooker Beef Stew
This hearty Crock-Pot beef stew is a complete meal as-is, so thereโs no need to serve it with any side dishes. However, if you do want to add a little something extra, consider pairing it with homemade bread โ try this Sicilian Bread.
Items recommended for this recipe:
Partanna Sicilian Extra Virgin Olive Oil is made with Nocellara del Belice olives also known as Castelvetrano Olives in Sicily, Italy
The Chef's flour is a general purpose, high gluten flour that works well for many recipes. You can use it for pizza crust, pasta making, bread, and pastries.
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Crockpot Beef Stew
Description
Beef Stew with potatoes and peas is the classic family dish, a single rich and substantial dish, typical of Italian cuisine. Tender and tasty, the whole family will love it.
Ingredients
Instructions
Cut the meat of the stew into many equal morsels, coat them in the flour and add them to the crockpot.
Cut the potatoes and carrots in equal parts (large cubes) and add to the crockpot as well. Cut also the onion into slices.
Add the frozen peas. The red wine, salt and pepper and if you like it some tomato sauce.
Cover and let it cook up to 4 hours on high mode then on low for another 4. Check on it occasionally.ย
Serve your beef stew hot with homemade bread.
Note
Only at the end of cooking can you remove the lid from the crockpot with the potato and pea stew, so that it can dry according to the consistency you prefer.
If you like, you can add pine nuts or raisins.
Consume within 3 days in an airtight container.
