Country Beef Stew

The most comforting of comfort foods, beef sirloin cubes are baked to perfection in a Dutch oven with vegetables and diced tomatoes. I thought this recipe was tasty, relatively healthy, and a definite comfort food during a blizzard. Keep an eye on your fluid levels; I thought they were too low. My next attempt will likely have more water or a broth if I can find one without sodium.

Step: 1

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Place a Dutch oven or heavy oven-safe pan into oven as it preheats.

Step: 2

Toss beef cubes with canola oil in a bowl to coat. Stir garlic and herb seasoning with flour in a shallow bowl; dredge beef in seasoned flour to coat. Place beef into the hot Dutch oven and bake for 30 minutes, turning beef cubes over twice. Stir mixed vegetables, diced tomatoes, potatoes, and pearl onions into beef; cover with lid and return to oven.

Step: 3

Place beef into the hot Dutch oven and bake for 30 minutes, turning beef cubes over twice. Stir mixed vegetables, diced tomatoes, potatoes, and pearl onions into beef; cover with lid and return to oven.

Step: 4

Reduce oven heat to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).

Step: 5

Bake stew in the oven until meat is tender, about 2 1/2 hours.

Per Serving: 438 calories; protein 27.5g; carbohydrates 60.2g; fat 10.6g; cholesterol 48.9mg; sodium 107.7mg.

The word “stew” can refer to both a food and a make dishes method. Stewing makes slowly cooking piece of meat, vegetables or beans in a tastefull liquid . It’s similar to braising, but it makes have a few piece of differences. The meat is chopped into smaller pieces but of being cooked all of it , and the water based material all of it covers the contents in a stew as different to a braise’s halfway full . When meat or raw fruit are cooked using this method, the resulting dish is called stew.

Stew has a reputation for being a rib-sticking eating process that comfortable you up on a freezing , winter day. It’s true ; a bowl of old menu of beef stew does have warming properties , but stew’s cozy factor goes way beyond protecting you from the chill . It’s all about those tender chunks of meat and vegetables, swimming in a thick, ultra-rich gravy. The way they come together make the greatest comfort food, no matter the weather.