Easy Beef Stew for Two
Easy Beef Stew for Two

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy beef stew for two using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
  1. Take 1-2 lbs well marbled beef chuck shoulder, in 2" in chunks
  2. Prepare Salt & pepper to season
  3. Take 3 tablespoons olive oil
  4. Make ready 1 yellow onion, largely diced
  5. Get 3 cloves garlic, rough chopped
  6. Make ready 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  7. Make ready 1 tablespoon tomato paste
  8. Take Handful flour
  9. Take 3 cups beef broth
  10. Make ready 1 bay leave
  11. Make ready 1 teaspoon dried time
  12. Take Couple dashes of Worcestershire sauce
  13. Take 4-6 carrots, cut into 1" medallions
  14. Take 4-6 celery stalks,cut 1" pieces
  15. Prepare 1 large potato, skinned and cut into 1" pieces
  16. Take 1 (14.5 oz) can stewed tomatoes with juices
  17. Prepare 1/4 cup chopped parsley
Instructions to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
  1. Trim any large fat caps off your meat and cube meat into large bites, season liberally with salt and pepper. Set aside. The salt will encourage natural sugars to come to meats surface for better browning.
  2. In a large stock pot, heat a tablespoon of olive oil on med high heat until nearly smoking
  3. In three batches, pat meat dry and drop into hot pan and sear each side a couple minutes to get a dark brown crust. Do not crowd all the meat into the pan or it will simply steam. Add more oil for each batch. Set browned meat aside.
  4. Add onion, then garlic to the pan and saute a couple minutes. Add balsamic and tomato paste and stir a minute longer. Scrape any bits from bottom of pan.
  5. Add meat to back to the pan and dust liberally with flour. Stir to cook flour 2 minutes.
  6. Add broth, bay leaf, thyme, and Worcestershire. Reduce heat to low.
  7. Add vegetables and can tomatoes with juices. Stir and cover.
  8. Cook on a low simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally until meat is fork tender. Add parsley at the finish.
  9. Add more broth if needed or to thicken mix one tablespoon of flour with a little broth and add to pot and continue cooking.
  10. Check at the end for needed salt or pepper. Remove bay leaf before serving.

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