Old-Fashioned 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	109%	71%
fat	2%	3%
aromatics	70%	23%
salt	0%	0%
thickener	5%	1%
vegetables and beans	246%	91%
collagen idx	0.8	0.8
marbling idx	0.8	0.5

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

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

454 g	1 pound lean beef chuck, trimmed and cut into 1 inch cubes
15 g	2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
9 g	2 teaspoons vegetable oil
300 g	2 onions, thinly sliced
140 g	2 cups fresh sliced mushrooms
6 g	2 cloves garlic, minced
11 g	2 teaspoons tomato paste
480 g	2 cups beef broth
512 g	4 cups sliced carrots
340 g	2 russet potatoes, sliced into 1/4 inch slices
125 g	1 cup chopped fresh green beans
8 g	1 tablespoon cornstarch
15 g	1 tablespoon cold water
25 g	0.25 cup chopped parsley

Method: 5 steps, published by www.allrecipes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

“I gave it a 4 cause I altered it a bit but my husband LOVED it. Using what I had in the house, I floured the beef w/ flour and Italian seasoning mix. I sautéed that in the oil and put them in the crock pot piece by piece with about 3 cups of beef broth. In the” — a cook, 4★

“This is a great basic recipe for Old Fashioned Beef Stew. I did add and make some changes. I used 1 sliced onion, about one and a quarter pounds of chuck meat, I added 1 sliced parsnip, about 5 cloves of garlic and some red merlot wine, salt on the meat as it ” — a cook, 5★