Pirate Stew

This beef stew for the slow cooker has a taste of the Caribbean (brown sugar and rum) that your whole family will love. This recipe is my own creation and uses primarily root vegetables from the ship’s hold. Let this cook while you and the crew take on another adventure.

Step: 1

Combine the beef, flour, salt, and pepper in a resealable plastic bag; shake to evenly coat the beef.

Step: 2

Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Brown the beef in the olive oil. Transfer the meat into the bottom of a slow cooker and return the skillet to the heat. Add the sweet potato, potato, celery, turnip, and parsnip. Pour the vinegar into the hot skillet to deglaze the pan, scraping loose the particles from the bottom with a spatula; empty into the slow cooker. Return the skillet to the heat and melt the butter. Cook and stir the onion in the melted butter until softened; scrape into the slow cooker.

Step: 3

Combine the pineapple juice, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar, garlic, beef bullion, and rum in a small saucepan; cook until the bouillon cube dissolves. Pour into the slow cooker.

Step: 4

Turn the slow cooker on to High; cook for 1 hour. Switch heat to Low and cook an additional 6 hours.

Per Serving: 733 calories; protein 27.1g; carbohydrates 79.4g; fat 32.1g; cholesterol 83.6mg; sodium 421.8mg.

The word “stew” can process to 2 time a dish and a make dishes method. Stewing involves not fast cooking piece of meat, vegetables or beans in a tastefull liquid . It’s similar to braising, instead it does have a few notable differences. The raw animal vested is chopped into few of pieces instead of being cooked whole , and the liquid completely covers the essential in a stew as compared to a braise’s halfway all of it . When meat or vegetables 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 old menu of beef stew does have warming featured food , but stew’s comfort factor goes way beyond preserving you from the chill . It’s all about those soft and chunks of meat and vegetables, swimming in a thick, ultra-rich gravy. The more they come together make the greatest comfort food, no matter the weather.