🍲Heart-warming & Deliciously Simple Beef Stew

Oven or Slow Cooker option!

If you are home, nestle this meal in the oven for a few hours to simmer to tenderness. If you have to dine and dash after work, slip it into the slow cooker before you leave and come home to the aroma of someone else cooking for you. Even though you prepped it yourself.

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Heart-warming and Deliciously Simple Beef Stew

Good For You

• Protein

• Vegetables

• Low-Sodium

Good For

• Weekend meal

• Weekday slow cooker meal

• Gifting to a new Momma or friend who needs some heart-warming; especially if they require gluten-free.

Heart-Warming & Deliciously Simple Beef Stew

This recipe is so tried and true, that the original from a friend only needed a conversation to remember how to make it.

It’s that simple. And that good.

• 2 lbs round beef steak, cubes or roast

• 1 onion, sliced

• No-added-salt steak spice or homemade steak spice mixture (to taste)

• ~6 medium potatoes (halved)

• ~6 medium carrots, cut in thirds lengthwise

• 1/2 butternut squash, large cubes (optional)

• 2 small cans, low-sodium vegetable juice

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Alternatively, set a slow cooker on low once the insert is removed.

2. Pour enough vegetable juice to coat the bottom of a roaster pan or the slow cooker insert. Set remaining juice aside.

3. Place beef evenly over juice. Sprinkle with steak spice.

4. Layer sliced onion over meat.

5. Peel and cut potatoes, carrots, and squash. Place around or on top of the beef.

6. Pour vegetable juice over all. Be sure to coat all potatoes to prevent them from turning brown.

7. Rinse cans with a little water pouring this into the pan as well. Oven roasting will require an additional ~1.5 cans of water. Slow cooker, a 1/2 can of water.

8. Bake at 350 F, covered, for 3 hours or until meat is tender and vegetables are soft.

   Or, cook on low in a slow cooker for ~8 hours.

Kitchen Tip: Resist peeking under the lid at your slow cooker meal as it cooks.  Every lifting of the lid adds a 1/2 hour to your cooking time.

Listen to the Recipe Story above for a planned-over meal that you can make with what’s left.

Nutrition Tip: Leaving salt out of the recipe allows each person to salt to taste at the table. It also allows our taste buds to get used to less.

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Bring a friend, there’s always room for one more,

Jane