Slow Cooker Stew

Ingredients

• ½ C all purpose flour
• 1 tsp salt
• ½ tsp black pepper
• 2-3 lbs. stew meat or boneless beef chuck, cut into 1 inch pieces

Combine flour, salt and pepper in a large zippered plastic bag. Add in meat and toss to coat.

• ¼ C canola oil

Heat oil in a large pan over medium high heat and cook meat until browned on all sides.

Place meat in slow cooker.

1 large onion, chopped

Add onion into same pan that you cooked the meat in and cook until onion is golden brown.

4 C beef broth
4 tsp chopped garlic

Add in beef broth and garlic. Bring to a boil. Scrape up pieces of food from bottom of pan.

2 Tbsp tomato paste
1 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp soy sauce
2 tsp dried parsley
½ tsp dried thyme
2 bay leaves

Add in parsley, thyme, bay leaves, sugar, soy sauce and tomato paste.

Pour mixture over meat in crock pot.

Cook on high for 4 hours

1 lb. red potatoes, quartered
3 carrots, peeled and cut into one inch pieces

Add in potatoes and carrots and cook one additional hour.

*This was good but next time I will cut the beef into smaller pieces, and cut the potatoes and carrots larger.

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