Grammy's Kitchen · Beef Stew · Slow Cooker Guinness Beef Stew
One of 148 beef stew recipes we measured
23 cooks on www.simplyrecipes.com rate it 4.5★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 148.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 130% | 71% |
| fat | 3% | 3% |
| aromatics | 39% | 23% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
| thickener | 0% | 1% |
| vegetables and beans | 54% | 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)
Weights computed by us.
| 28 g | 2 tablespoons butter |
| 900 g | 2 pounds (900 g) well marbled chuck beef roast, cut into 2-inch pieces |
| Kosher salt | |
| 320 g | 2 cups chopped onion (about 1 large onion) |
| 80 g | 2 celery stalks, chopped |
| 33 g | 2 tablespoons tomato paste |
| 454 g | 1 pint (16 ounces, 475 ml) Guinness extra stout (make sure you use extra stout and not draught) |
| 720 g | 3 cups (700 ml) beef broth |
| 122 g | 2 large carrots, peeled and cut into chunks |
| 3 to 4 parsnips, peeled and cut into chunks | |
| 280 g | 1/2 pound (280 g) celery root, potatoes, or very young turnips, peeled and cut into chunks |
| 4 g | 2 teaspoons dried thyme |
| 25 g | 4 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley (optional) |
Method: 4 steps, published by www.simplyrecipes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“This was so easy and so good. Yes, a little bit of time prepping the meat and the veggies. Once it is in the slow cooker cooking you can just let it do it's magic. Made it with baby red potatoes. The house smelled wonderful while it was cooking and 4 hours lat” — a cook
“I've made beef stews a couple of times and always found them to have had too much of a tomatoe base to them. In general I tended to stay away from them but then I thought maybe if I tried an Irish beef stew I'd have better luck. I was very excited when I found” — a cook