Family Favorite Beef Stew

"Really easy and inexpensive dinner that the entire family enjoys. Even my picky four year old! This recipe is a mixture of many other recipes I have tried in the past. I have also used red cabbage at the end, and found it tasty for the adults, the children weren't terribly impressed with that addition though. Edit*** I have used this recently after trying new experiments and this recipe needs something I think. Something savory, maybe a couple anchovies? I do not know, but please experiment! I am also cutting the V8 to 2 cups as the 3 cups in the slow cooker seems to be too watery."
 
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Ready In:
8hrs 20mins
Ingredients:
10
Serves:
4-6
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ingredients

  • 1 lb stew beef chunk, cut up
  • 14 cup flour
  • 2 tablespoons cooking oil (optional)
  • 1 (1 1/4 ounce) package dry onion soup mix
  • 3 cups vegetable juice (tomato based)
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
  • 3 medium carrots, cut in thick slices
  • 3 medium potatoes, cubed, relatively same size as carrot pieces
  • salt and pepper
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directions

  • Place vegetables in bottom of crock pot.
  • Toss beef with flour, shake off excess. Sauté beef in hot oil, optional step but recommended.
  • Place beef on top of vegetables Mix juice, onion soup mix, garlic powder and Worcestershire sauce; pour on top of mixture.
  • Cover and cook on high 20-30 minutes.
  • (This is a good time to clean up, or get ready for your day).
  • Finish cooking on low for 8 hours.
  • Mix in salt and pepper to taste and serve.

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Reviews

  1. Everyone in my family and a couple of my neighbors tried and loved this beef stew. I used dehydrated onion in place of the onion soup mix and soy sauce replaced the worchestershire. I have never liked V8 Juice until I tried this recipe. Just the right amount of veggie taste was added!!! I procrastinated too long in the day and resorted to cooking on the stovetop which was about an hour and a half of simmering to tenderness.
     
  2. Easy and quick to make on a stove top! Just let it simmer til the veggies are done. Great recipe for when there's not a lot of time to be messing around the kitchen. The kids like my recipe for beef stew, but like this one better. Get the beef stew chunks while they're on sale and it's inexpensive too!
     
  3. this is good very close to my own recipe. i serve with crackling cornbread.
     
  4. I can not believe this recipe made it to the top 10 list. This was the worst beef stew I have ever had. When I gave it a sample taste after work...I did not want to put it on the supper table! It is awful!
     
  5. What do you do with the cooking oil? Saute the beef, which I did but it's not explained. could be awful otherwise it's easy and good.
     
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Tweaks

  1. This is a fantastic stew! It even got rave reviews from my picky-eater inlaws! They just loved it! I substituted beef bouillon for the vegetable juice, since I didn't have any on hand, and it made a beautiful stew base. I also added some sweet corn that I shaved from a few leftover cobs from supper the night before, and the slight sweetness it added in each bite was really yummy. Thanks for such a delicious but home-grown simple stew, Jennifer!
     
  2. 7/30/07 - We had about half of this left over. I made Sure Thing Pie Crust, Recipe #17647, posted by MizzNezz, and made a pot pie with the left-overs. I baked it at 400 degrees for about 35 minutes. I set it on a jelly-roll pan with parchment paper underneath in case it cooked over. My husband thought he died and went to heaven! 7/23/07 - I'm not really crazy about Crockpot food, so I decided to make this on the stove. I dredged the meat in the flour and browned in a large cast iron skillet. After reading the reviews, I used water in place of the V8 juice and added 1/2 cup cooking sherry. I cooked the meat by itself for about an hour. After an hour, I put in the vegetables, along with 2 stalks of celery and cooked for approximately another hour. At the end, I thickened it with Wondra flour/cold water and added a small half package of frozen peas. It turned out excellent! What I really like about this recipe is that it makes a manageable amount for two people and uses 1 pound of meat instead of 1 1/2 pounds (I usually ask our meat market to put my orders into one pound increments). I think this is a recipe that can be lots of tomato or no tomato or somewhere in the middle -- it's up to the cook! Doing it this way made enough to feed 5 hungry adults. You could even probably stretch it to 6 if you made biscuits to go with it. I also used the Copycat onion soup recipe; so that made it a very economical meal. Jennifer, thanks for posting your recipe! I think it is going to be my new "go to" beef stew recipe!
     
  3. I was reluctant to try this and I shouldn't have. I'm sorry but the smell of this cooking made me sick. I guess you have to like vegetable juice to like it. I took one bite and it made me sick. My husband did eat some but he said he'd like it with tomato juice instead of vegetable. I won't be making this one again.
     
  4. Everyone in my family and a couple of my neighbors tried and loved this beef stew. I used dehydrated onion in place of the onion soup mix and soy sauce replaced the worchestershire. I have never liked V8 Juice until I tried this recipe. Just the right amount of veggie taste was added!!! I procrastinated too long in the day and resorted to cooking on the stovetop which was about an hour and a half of simmering to tenderness.
     

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