Slow Cooker Guinness Stew

Name: Slow Cooker Guinness Stew
Prep time: 4 h 50 min
Cook time: 4 h 50 min
Total time: 4 h 50 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 710 milliliters beef broth; 907 grams well marbled chuck beef roast, cut into 2-inch pieces; 2 Tbsps butter; 2 larges carrots, peeled and cut into chunks; 2 celery stalks, chopped; 2 teaspoons dried thyme; 59 milliliters chopped fresh parsley (optional); 454 grams pint Guinness stout (we used Extra Stout); 473 milliliters chopped onion; 2 parsnips, peeled and cut into chunks; 6 servings Salt; 2 Tbsps tomato paste; 454 grams young turnips, peeled and cut into chunks

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Slow Cooker Guinness Stew a try. This recipe serves 6. One serving contains 439 calories, 33g of protein, and 22g of fat. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 4 hours and 50 minutes. It will be a hit at your st. patrick day event. A mixture of parsnips, salt, thyme, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. To use up the salt you could follow this main course with the Apple Turnovers Recipe as a dessert.

Instructions

Heat the butter in a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. Brown the beef in the butter, starting with the fattiest pieces of meat, fat side down in the pan. This will allow some beef fat to render out. Work in batches as to not crowd the pan.

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Beef Fat

Butter

Beef

Meat

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Frying Pan

Sprinkle salt over the beef as it browns. Once browned on all sides, transfer the beef pieces into the slow cooker.2

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Beef

Salt

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Slow Cooker

Add the onions and celery to the pan in which you just browned the beef. Sauté the onions and celery until they begin to brown at the edges, about 5 minutes.

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Celery

Onion

Beef

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Frying Pan

Add the tomato paste and mix well. Cook for a minute or two, then add a little of the Guinness, enough to make it easier for you to scrape up any browned bits at the bottom of the pan.

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Tomato Paste

Guinness

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Transfer the celery and onions into the slow cooker. 3

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Celery

Onion

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Add the rest of the Guinness, the beef broth, carrots, parsnips, turnips, and thyme to the slow cooker.

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Beef Broth

Guinness

Parsnip

Carrot

Turnip

Thyme

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Add two teaspoons of salt. Cover and cook on "high" for 4 hours, or "low" for 8 hours. When done, add more salt to taste. If you want, sprinkle with fresh parsley to serve.

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Fresh Parsley