Old-Fashioned Hamburger and Vegetable Stew

In about 1 hour, you can have this easy stew on your table. Chock-full of vegetables and flavor, it’s a mosaic of color and taste in your bowl. I always have fresh herbs, on hand, as well as most of the vegetables. Feel free to use dried herbs or canned vegetables, if you like, in this hearty stew.

Step: 1

Heat a large saucepan or Dutch oven over medium-high heat and cook ground beef until browned, 4 to 5 minutes. Add onion and celery and cook, stirring, until onion is soft and translucent, 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 1 minute.

Step: 2

Pour in beef stock and stir, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pot. Bring to a boil and add carrots.

Step: 3

Tie parsley, rosemary, thyme, and sage together into a bundle with cooking twine and add to the pot. Add bay leaf and season soup with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat, and simmer for about 10 minutes.

Step: 4

Increase heat to medium and add potatoes, green beans, corn, and drained tomatoes. Return soup to a boil, partially with a lid so steam can still escape, and simmer until potatoes are fork-tender, about 25 minutes. Remove herb bundle and bay leaf and discard. Adjust salt and pepper, if needed.

Per Serving: 333 calories; protein 25.1g; carbohydrates 29.4g; fat 12.8g; cholesterol 65.8mg; sodium 267.5mg.

The name of “stew” can process to both a dish and a cooking method. Stewing involves not fast cooking chunks of meat, vegetables or beans in a tastefull liquid . It’s similar to braising, but it does have a few piece of differences. The meat is chopped into few of pieces but of being cooked all of it , and the water based material all of it covers the essential in a stew as different to a braise’s halfway all of it . 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 cold , winter day. It’s true ; a bowl of classic beef stew can make warming properties , but stew’s cozy factor more than a way beyond preserving you from the cold . It’s all about those soft and chunks of food and vegetables, swimming in a thick, ultra-rich gravy. The way they come together make the greatest comfort food, no matter the weather.