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	106%	71%
fat	9%	3%
aromatics	34%	23%
salt	0%	0%
thickener	3%	1%
vegetables and beans	83%	91%
collagen idx	0.8	0.8
marbling idx	0.5	0.5

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

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

1134 g	2 1/2 pounds stew meat (see notes)
3 g	1/2 teaspoon EACH: black pepper, garlic salt, celery salt
30 g	1/4 cup flour
61 g	3-6 tablespoons olive oil
43 g	3 tablespoons cold butter (divided)
320 g	2 cups yellow onions (diced)
12 g	4 cloves garlic (minced)
236 g	1 cup cabernet sauvignon (or merlot. See notes.)
960 g	4 cups beef broth
8 g	2 beef bouillon cubes
32 g	2 tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce
49 g	3 tablespoons tomato paste
305 g	5 medium carrots (cut into 1-inch chunks)
454 g	1 lb. baby Yukon gold potatoes (halved or quartered)
2 g	2 bay leaves
1 g	1 sprig rosemary
145 g	1 cup frozen peas
38 g	1/4 cup Cold Water + 3 tablespoons Corn Starch (Optional)
	2-3 drops Gravy Master (*Optional*- Adds a richer, darker color.)

Method: 9 steps, published by thecozycook.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

“John Martin — February 4, 2021 @ 12:39 pm Reply Made this exactly per the recipe…fresh spices and all. Sorry, but it was just average beef stew to me. Everything was tender and tasty, but just not as good as plain old beef stew, like my mom and grandma used to” — a cook

“Melinda — January 12, 2021 @ 12:56 pm Reply I made this recipe using stew meat. I didn’t have better than bouillon or bouilloncubes, I only had the lil tube of bouillon paste (chicken), so I used that, I had celery seed instead of celery salt, so I googled how” — a cook