Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, easy beef stew for two. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
In a large saucepan, brown beef in oil. In the same pan, saute onion until tender. Stir in broth, bay leaf, and browned beef with any accumulated juices and bring to simmer. Brown the meat in a skillet with vegetable oil until the meat is quite dark but not burned.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have 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:
- Make ready 1-2 lbs well marbled beef chuck shoulder, in 2" in chunks
- Take Salt & pepper to season
- Make ready 3 tablespoons olive oil
- Get 1 yellow onion, largely diced
- Get 3 cloves garlic, rough chopped
- Prepare 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- Make ready 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- Take Handful flour
- Take 3 cups beef broth
- Prepare 1 bay leave
- Get 1 teaspoon dried time
- Prepare Couple dashes of Worcestershire sauce
- Make ready 4-6 carrots, cut into 1" medallions
- Make ready 4-6 celery stalks,cut 1" pieces
- Prepare 1 large potato, skinned and cut into 1" pieces
- Prepare 1 (14.5 oz) can stewed tomatoes with juices
- Prepare 1⁄4 cup chopped parsley
Lower heat to medium-low and add carrots and onions, toss to coat with pan juices. 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. Add beef stew chunks, coating well.
Instructions to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
- 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.
- In a large stock pot, heat a tablespoon of olive oil on med high heat until nearly smoking
- 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.
- 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.
- Add meat to back to the pan and dust liberally with flour. Stir to cook flour 2 minutes.
- Add broth, bay leaf, thyme, and Worcestershire. Reduce heat to low.
- Add vegetables and can tomatoes with juices. Stir and cover.
- Cook on a low simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally until meat is fork tender. Add parsley at the finish.
- Add more broth if needed or to thicken mix one tablespoon of flour with a little broth and add to pot and continue cooking.
- Check at the end for needed salt or pepper. Remove bay leaf before serving.
Add the water, tomato sauce, broth, potato, onion, carrots, red pepper, soup mix, Worcestershire sauce, rosemary, garlic powder, pepper and remaining thyme. Add beef stew chunks, coating well. Top meat with potatoes and carrots. Mix together beef broth and worcestershire sauce, and pour over potatoes. Dice the beef, mushrooms, carrots, and onion into bite-sized pieces.
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