Beef And Vegetable Stew

Total Time: 6 hrs Cook Time: 6 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 3/4 cups beef stock
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 3 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1 1/4 lbs stewing beef, cubed
• 2 medium stalk celery, halved lengthwise and sliced
• 2 garlic cloves, diced
• 1 medium onion, diced
• 1 medium carrot, halved lengthwise and sliced
• 1 medium parsnip, halved lengthwise and sliced
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1/3 cup corn kernel, frozen
• 1/3 cup peas, frozen
• salt and freshly ground pepper
• 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped

Recipe

• 1 in slow cooker stoneware, place stock, flour and tomato paste and whisk until flour is completely dissolved. mix in beef, celery, garlic, onion, carrot, parsnip and thyme.
• 2 cover and cook on low setting for 6 - 8 hours or until beef is tender.
• 3 swirl in corn and peas, cover and cook for 10 minutes more or until corn and peas are heated through.
• 4 season stew with salt and pepper.
• 5 sprinkle servings of the stew with chopped fresh parsley.
• 6 option: make lamb and vegetable stew replacing beef with cubes of lamb stew meat. instead of thyme, try another herb, such as rosemary.