Slow Cooker Beef Stew

Nothing says comfort food like Slow Cooker Beef Stew. This easy recipe can be prepped in just twenty minutes and forgotten about until dinner. It’s hearty, healthy, and perfect for chilly winter days.

How’s the weather in your neck of the woods? It’s bitterly cold here-it felt like -10 this morning when my poor husband left for work, and we’re expecting a pretty decent snow storm this weekend.  

Obviously this is the time of year to embrace delicious comfort food that warms you from the inside out! That’s exactly what this Slow Cooker Beef Stew is-flavorful, hearty, and cooked to perfection!

This recipe is a little bit more labor intensive on the front end than most of my slow cooker recipes but I promise you that it’s worth it for that extra flavor it adds.  All said and done it’s less than 20 minutes of prep and then forget about it until dinner time!

For an Instant Pot version of this recipe, try my Instant Pot Beef Stew!

Slow Cooker Beef Stew Ingredients

• 4 large potatoes
• 1 teaspoon rosemary
• 1 teaspoon thyme
• 2  tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic (about 4 cloves)
• 1/2 yellow onion, diced
• 1 cup carrots, sliced
• salt & pepper to taste
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1.5 lbs stew meat (kabob cut meat works as well)
• red pepper
• 1/4 cup dry red wine
• 1 cup frozen peas
• 4 cups beef stock

How to Make Beef Stew in the Crock Pot

Cut potatoes into bite size pieces and place in the bottom of a slow cooker.  In a large skillet heat vegetable oil on medium high heat.  Add rosemary and thyme and cook for 30 second.  

Add garlic, onion, and carrots and continue to cook, stirring often, for 5 minutes.  Add meat and liberally season with salt and pepper as well as red pepper flakes. Continue to cook until browned on all sides, about ten minutes.

Meanwhile melt butter in a small bowl, whisk together butter and flour.  Add mixture to skillet and stir well to coat meat. Pour contents of the skillet over the potatoes in the slow cooker.  

Add wine to the skillet and cook for 1 minute while scraping the pan to deglaze.  Pour wine over meat in slow cooker.  Add beef broth to the slow cooker and cook on high heat for 5-6 hours. Ten minutes before serving add peas.

What to Serve with Beef Stew

I like to have bread and butter with my beef stew, any of these easy recipes would compliment this stew perfectly:

• homemade biscuits
• honey corn muffins
• Guinness beer bread (I have a Guinness Beef Stew too!)
• pretzel bread

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Adapted from Iowa Girl Eats