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Pat beef dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper. Heat oil in medium ovensafe saucepan over medium-high heat until just smoking. Season the beef on both sides with salt and pepper.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have easy beef stew for two using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
- Take well marbled beef chuck shoulder, in 2" in chunks
- Take Salt & pepper to season
- Take olive oil
- Take yellow onion, largely diced
- Take garlic, rough chopped
- Take balsamic vinegar
- Take tomato paste
- Take flour
- Prepare beef broth
- Take bay leave
- Get dried time
- Get Couple dashes of Worcestershire sauce
- Prepare carrots, cut into 1" medallions
- Prepare celery stalks,cut 1" pieces
- Prepare large potato, skinned and cut into 1" pieces
- Get can stewed tomatoes with juices
- Take chopped parsley
The recipe uses lean beef round or lean chuck, along with vegetables and herbs. Add beef stew chunks, coating well. Top meat with potatoes and carrots. Mix together beef broth and worcestershire sauce, and pour over potatoes.
Instructions to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:
- 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.
- In a large stock pot, heat a tablespoon of olive oil on med high heat until nearly smoking
- 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.
- 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.
- Add meat to back to the pan and dust liberally with flour. Stir to cook flour 2 minutes.
- Add broth, bay leaf, thyme, and Worcestershire. Reduce heat to low.
- Add vegetables and can tomatoes with juices. Stir and cover.
- Cook on a low simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally until meat is fork tender. Add parsley at the finish.
- Add more broth if needed or to thicken mix one tablespoon of flour with a little broth and add to pot and continue cooking.
- Check at the end for needed salt or pepper. Remove bay leaf before serving.
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