Mom's Slow Cooker Beef Stew

The formula

Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 148.

	this recipe	typical
liquid	44%	71%
fat	1%	3%
aromatics	15%	23%
acid	1%	0%
salt	0%	0%
thickener	2%	1%
vegetables and beans	62%	91%
collagen idx	0.8	0.8
marbling idx	0.8	0.5

Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

14 g	1 tablespoon olive oil
1361 g	3 pounds beef chuck, trimmed of excess fat and cut into 1 inch pieces (about 2 1/2 pounds when done)
	Freshly ground salt and pepper
360 g	1 1/2 cups beef broth (or beef bone broth)
236 g	1 cup dry red wine (or sub extra beef broth)
33 g	2 tablespoons tomato paste
16 g	1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce
8 g	1/2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
2 g	1 teaspoon dried thyme
6 g	1 teaspoon salt
	Lots of freshly ground black pepper
18 g	6 garlic cloves, minced
150 g	1 large yellow onion, cut into chunks
244 g	4 large carrots (or 5 medium), peeled and cut into 1/2-inch diagonal slices
454 g	1 pound yukon gold potatoes, diced into 1/2 inch cubes
30 g	1/4 cup all purpose flour (or sub all purpose gluten free flour)
145 g	1 cup frozen peas

Method: 3 steps, published by www.ambitiouskitchen.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

“I made this last week, and it was so good, I’m back to make it again. This time, I’m going to use smaller pieces of meat and brown them over medium-high heat, along with frozen peas, as the recipe calls for. My beef was a bit chewy. I used Chianti and small re” — a cook, 5★

“Excellent recipe. But your nutrition information is way off. According to Samsung Food calculations, this has 694 calories per serving, 39 grams of fat (15 of which is saturated), 42 grams of protein, and 30 grams of carbs, along with a whopping 974mg of sodiu” — a cook, 5★