How to cook beef stew in a slow cooker: recipes to choose from

Beef is quite a useful product, but not all hostesses can cook it. Often it turns tough and fresh. However, having such a device as a slow cooker in the kitchen, it will be much easier to make a dish of beef: the cooking time will be significantly reduced, and the meat will please the taste, it will be juicy and soft.

Braised beef with gravy in a slow cooker

Ingredients	amount
Young beef –	600 g
Carrot –	1 PC.
Onion head –	1 PC.
Tomato dressing –	3 tablespoons
Mayonnaise –	2.5 tablespoons
Water –	130 ml
Olive oil –	2 tablespoons
Spice –	taste
Time for preparing: 130 minutes	Calories per 100 grams: 176 Kcal

My and cut into medium pieces of meat. We clean the vegetables and chop half rings. We activate the slow cooker on the roasting mode, pour in the oil and after warming up the device we set the meat for 10 minutes. Then send the vegetables.

All carefully mixed, leave to roast. Put the tomato paste, mayonnaise in a bowl and pour it with water. The resulting sauce is sent to the meat with vegetables, add spices and switch to quenching mode. Cooking for two hours.

Beef Stew with Potatoes

Potatoes are perfectly combined with beef, and if you cook them together in a slow cooker, the dish will delight even the most sophisticated connoisseur of culinary delights with a rich taste.

Components:

• Potato average – 7 pieces;
• Beef pulp – 400 g;
• Half onion;
• Carrot – 1 pc;
• Sweet pepper – 1 pc;
• Fresh greens – 1 bunch;
• Salt, spices – to taste;
• Sunflower oil – 3 tablespoons.

After washing and drying the meat, cut it into cubes of 1 × 1 centimeter. Put the stewpan on the stove and warm up.

We shift there chopped beef and begin to fry. Peeling potatoes, onions, carrots and having washed them well under the tap, chop: potatoes, carrots and onions – half rings.

Put another frying pan on the stove, pour the butter and fry the vegetables until rosy color. My pepper, cut out the middle with grains and cut into cubes.

Turning the device into extinguishing mode. We shift all the products that have undergone the initial processing, add salt, add spices, mix well and leave for an hour and a half.

Wash and finely chop the greens. 10 minutes before the end of cooking, open the lid, lay out the pepper and greens.

Cooking beef stew with prunes

Components:

• Veal – 800 gr;
• Cream 20% – 100 ml;
• Mushrooms (your choice) -150 g;
• Carrot – 1 pc;
• Prunes – 50 g;
• Fresh basil – a bunch;
• Processed cheese – 1 pc;
• Salt, spices – to taste;
• Sunflower oil – 2 tablespoons;
• Garlic – 2 cloves.

Put the pan with a thick bottom on the stove, the presence of butter and leave to warm up. My, dry and dice meat.

We spread on the pan, begin to fry. Fill hot smoked prunes with hot water and leave to steam..

Wash and clean mushrooms and carrots, cut into not too thin slices. Spread roast to veal.

Pour the cream into a separate container, squeeze out the pre-peeled garlic, finely chopped basil, grated melted cheese and straws chopped prunes.

Turning on the electric appliance in the mode of “stewing” shifts roasted meat with vegetables and mushrooms into it, pour everything with creamy cheese sauce, salt, flavor with spices and leave to cook for an hour and a half.

Beef recipe in sour cream in the Redmond multicooker

When choosing a multicooker in the kitchen, after reading all the reviews and specifications, comparing the pricing policy, many housewives stop at the firm “Redmond”. And having prepared the first dish in it – beef stew in sour cream sauce – they are convinced of the correctness of their decision..

Components:

• Beef – 700 gr;
• Carrot – 2 pieces;
• Onion head – 2 pcs;
• Asparagus – 3 pieces;
• Sour cream – 200 ml;
• Hard cheese – 150 g;
• Garlic – 1 tooth;
• Pineapples – 1 bank;
• Salt, spices – to taste.

After washing and cutting the meat, put it in the bowl of the device. Turn on the timer for 20 minutes in frying mode.

Peeling vegetables, shred them in half rings. Chop garlic with a knife. We open pineapples, we merge juice and we cut them cubes.

Sour cream shifts in a deep plate, add shabby cheese, garlic and spices. Open the lid of the multicooker, lay the chopped vegetables, pineapples, pour the sour cream sauce and, activating the stewing mode, leave to cook for 2 hours.

Stew delicious beef with cabbage in a slow cooker

Braised cabbage with beef in a slow cooker will love even the most fastidious child to eat. Rich vitamin composition will fill it with energy and energy for the whole day..

Components:

• Young veal – 350 g;
• Tomato sauce – 100 ml;
• Carrot – 2 pieces;
• Cauliflower – 200 g;
• White cabbage – 300 g;
• Sunflower oil – 3 tablespoons;
• Chicken egg – 2 pieces;
• Salt, spices – to your taste.

We put two saucepans on the burners, pour oil in them. In a deep enameled pan, we draw water from the tap and also put on fire.

My and cut the young veal cubes 1 × 1 centimeter, spread on a heated pan. We clean carrots, we grind on a large grater. We cut the spoiled leaves from the white cabbage, chop it into thin strips.

Spread on the second pan and fry with carrots. We separate the cauliflower into florets, wash it and pour it into boiling salted water for literally 3 minutes. Boil, lay on the prepared dish to cool.

After frying the meat and cabbage with a carrot, we lay them in the unit for 1 hour in quenching mode. In a deep bowl, beat the eggs, dip the cauliflower and fry it in sunflower oil.

Over time, open the device, add the cabbage in the egg, spices, tomato sauce, salt, knead and continue to cook for 15 minutes.

Add various vegetables to meat

Vegetable stew with beef in a slow cooker – one of the most popular dishes in the summer-spring period, when fresh vegetables are most available.

Components:

• Eggplant – 3 pieces;
• Ripe tomatoes – 4 pcs;
• Carrot – 1 pc;
• Young beef – 450 g;
• Bulgarian pepper – 2 pcs;
• Garlic – 2 cloves;
• Sunflower oil – 2 tablespoons;
• Onion head – 2 pcs;
• Squash – 1 piece;
• Salt – to your liking;
• Fresh greens – a bunch.

Wash and peel off all the vegetables. Put the stewpan on the stove, pour the oil. Cut diced eggplants, squash, carrots, onions, tomatoes, put in a frying pan and fry until golden brown.

Peel the garlic, wash the greens and chop with a knife. Pour the sunflower oil into the device, turn on the roasting mode and lay the washed and chopped beef for 20 minutes.

To the roasting vegetables add Bulgarian pepper, cut into cubes all mix and cook another 5 minutes. Shifts the vegetables into the slow cooker, and in the fire mode, cook another 2 hours.

10 minutes before the end of cooking, add garlic and herbs, salt, sprinkle with spices, stir and continue cooking. Beef Stewed Vegetables Ready to Serve.

How about apples?

Beef with apples is a rather unusual combination of products in domestic cooking, but in European countries it is very common.

Components:

• Apples (any sweet and sour varieties will do) – 5 pcs;
• Onion head – 2 pcs;
• Carrot – 3 pieces;
• Young beef – 600 gr;
• Fresh paprika – 1 pc;
• Salt, spices – to your taste.

My, obsushivaem and cut along the meat fibers. Turn on the roasting mode, lay the beef in a slow cooker and cook for 20 minutes.

We clean, wash vegetables and apples. Cut the onion into half rings, carrots, paprika and apples in long cubes.

Open the bowl of the device and lay out the prepared products. Salt, add spices and mix everything. Switch to the extinguishing mode and prepare another 1.5 hours.

Useful tips

1. When choosing meat, focus on its color, structure and smell. To prepare a delicious dish, only young beef is needed. The color of her reddish-pink, with pressure, it immediately returns to its original shape. The smell should be neutral, not repulsive and unpleasant;
2. When frying vegetables in a frying pan, stir them often so that they do not burn, otherwise a bitter taste will appear at the dish;
3. It is enough to boil the cauliflower in boiling water for 3 minutes, otherwise it will become too soft, and when extinguishing turn into a mushy mass;
4. When slicing beef, do not make too large chunks, the meat will stew, but it will remain tough;
5. When cooking sauces for beef stew it is better to use mayonnaise, tomato paste and home-made cream – so you will be sure of the usefulness of the prepared dish;
6. Before using the processed cheese, put it in the freezer, after that it will become hard and you will rub it without undue effort;
7. Before stewing meat, be sure to fry it, so a golden color will appear and the dish will look appetizing;
8. For meat dishes with apples, take hard, sweet and sour varieties and be sure to peel off the peel;
9. If, however, you came across a not very young beef, it is recommended to soak it in milk for a day, and use this meat exclusively in the form of minced meat. It is not suitable for extinguishing with whole pieces..

Easy cooking and bon appetit!