The great thing about beef stew (and stew and general) is that you can slow cook it and it's purpose is to stretch out meals by leaving you with leftover for the rest of the week. It is one of those things that is better the day after it is made. However feel free to halve or customize a recipe. Most stews will contain stew meat that should be floured and browned on all sides in you dutch oven (if using a slow cooker brown the meat in a frying pan first. Then you will need on onion, a few potatoes and some carrots. Beans and corn are also a nice addition near the end of cooking. A nice basic recipe:
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One can find a recipe for beef stew in the cookbook that one received when the slow cooker was purchased. The Martha Stewart website also has a recipe for slow cooker beef stew.
beef stew
you have to make stew and then you pour beef in it.
The best place to find a beef stew recipe is recipes.com. This website allows users to rate the quality of the recipe, the difficulty level, and ingredients needed.
Online recipes for beef stew crock pots can be found online from many recipe websites. Some examples that have beef stew crock pot recipes include Food and All Recipes.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Slow-Cooker-Beef-Stew-I/Detail.aspx has a detailed and well explained slow cooker beef stew recipe. It is neatly organized which makes it very easy to follow. The best part is that it gives you the calorie count, the total fat and the cholesteral of what you're eating.
You can get beef stew in any grocery, - better yet, make it yourself.
There are many cooking blogs and mom boards that contain a ton of easy slow cooker beef stew recipes.
Not really no. Adding red wine is more of a variation of beef stew, the wine is an option of the chef preparing it. Beef Bourguignon is a French beef stew with red wine in the recipe.
To make a delicious beef shank stew, brown the beef shanks, then saut onions, garlic, and carrots. Add beef broth, tomatoes, and herbs, then simmer until the meat is tender. Serve with crusty bread for a hearty meal.
This website has a really good recipe with a little bit of a kick to it; casaveneracion.com/Korean-beef-stew/. I could copy and paste the recipe on here for you, but then that would be plagiarism, so I have given you the link.
Roasted beef or a fish dish would be easy. You could make a beef stew ( but if you want to be authentic don't put in potatoes) or a beef pie ( this is like a stew in a pastery). Soups made of leeks, onions, fish.