Making Life Better Recipes Detail 25127 Minute Beef Stew

Third recipe in our Feeding a Broken Center series, cominatcha today.

Introducing my newest comfort nutrient love: BEEF STEW. That can be made in an Instant Pot. Equally in Instant Pot Beef Stew. The meal that volition change your life.

To answer your questions: YES, I've become a new person since this stew was introduced into my life. I am a non-beefiness-loving-office-time-vegetarian who now adores beefiness stew. I attribute my newfound dearest of beef stew to two things – ane) how easy it is to make, and two) how truly, awesomely, gravy-loving delicious beefiness stew actually is. I approximate I was just being judgy virtually it for a minute there.

I grew up in a small boondocks in Minnesota (hello, Cambridge!), along with my husband Bjork. When we both sat down to eat this and took our outset bites of this beef stew as delivered past our friends Tyler and Heidi, we literally said, almost at the aforementioned time, "This tastes like Cambridge." For both of us, beefiness stew tastes similar dinner with grandma and grandpa on Sundays. It tastes like love. It tastes like habitation.

Which is why information technology'south perfect for our Feeding a Cleaved Centre series. Food, dear, dwelling house. 100% on brand.

Watch How To Make Our Instant Pot Beef Stew:

My friend Tyler brought usa this beefiness stew, and as you can see, Tyler is a master of the northern Minnesotan home-cooked meal.

My recipe is almost the exact same equally his recipe, which obviously came in the format that all the all-time recipes come in -> a photo of a recipe chicken-scratched out onto a piece of yellowing newspaper that has been handed down for years and years and years. The only thing I changed virtually it was making it in the Instant Pot. I mean, this doesn't HAVE to exist an Instant Pot recipe, but delight hear me when I say that the Instant Pot is amazing and the stew turned out just as delicious in 35-ish  minutes as compared to the traditional four hours that are written into the oven version of the recipe.

Admittedly, you lot get less awesome house smells. There is no real replacement for the magical healing powers of a stew bubbles away in your oven for four hours.

But perhaps you just got dwelling from piece of work and you didn't plan super well and you don't want to wait until 10pm to eat? Howdy, we're the same person. In that case, go with the Instant Pot.

PS. If you are not familiar with the Instant Pot (affiliate link) ,WHAT UNIVERSE ARE You lot LIVING IN.

True story:

I wasn't dwelling house when Tyler dropped off the stew, so I asked Bjork to pop it in the oven. He sent me approximately one hundred text messages request how he should put it in. What are the instructions? How do I practice it? "It'due south not a big bargain," I said. "Just literally take it out of the fridge andput information technology in the oven."

When I came habitation and opened the oven, I realized quickly that I had not been specific enough for my overachiever – he had gone just one step further and taken the foil off of the dish. Three hours in the oven, uncovered? The meat was browned. Like, really really browned. Similar, deadline crunchy, with petty to no gravy happening in the pan. I stepped in, beef-stew-expert that I am (OR NOT), and amateur rescue efforts were initiated.

And and then we ate information technology, and I discovered that while the crunch factor of our first attempt was maybe a little bit extreme, I actually DO like those meat chunks a little scrap browned on top. And I actually DO similar that gravy a little thicker.

I'm no beef stew expert, merely my one big tip for your Instant Pot beef stew? Transfer the cooked stew to a homey casserole dish and pop it in the oven for a few minutes earlier serving. UNCOVERED, friends. Go after that browning activeness like a boss – not too much, simply enough to requite you a little more fun in the texture department.

Plus, in improver to a nice little chip of caramelization, we all know the Instant Pot doesn't stand a chance against the hygge vibes of a heavy ruby Dutch oven. I mean, it's Beefiness STEW. It deserves to look like it came straight off Piffling Domicile on the Prairie.

Please serve this with lots of hot, crusty, buttery breadstuff to mop upwardly the gravy, and a simple light-green salad to feel similar total domestic royalty.

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Beef Stew made in an Instant Pot! six ingredients, 45 minutes, So EASY.

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• 2 lbs beef, chuck roast, fatty trimmed, cut into ane-2-inch chunks
• 1 medium onion, sliced thinly
• ii stalks celery, sliced diagonally in thick pieces
• 6 carrots, sliced diagonally in thick pieces
• 2 tablespoons small tapioca– come across notes
• i/ii cup tomato juice
• 2 teaspoons salt
• i tablespoon carbohydrate

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Instant Pot Instructions:Place everything in the Instant Pot. Select the stew/meat setting (about 35 minutes, high pressure). Later information technology's done, let everything mellow out for about 10 minutes before releasing the steam. Technically at this signal, information technology's done. Simply I recommend finishing with a quick browning session in the oven (run into notes below).

Traditional Oven Instructions: Preheat oven to 320 degrees. Place all ingredients in a blistering dish – it can be drinking glass or ceramic (we employ a round goulash dish – something betwixt eight×8 and 9×13). Cover with foil and broil for 3-4 hours. If the gravy dries out, you can add together a little water to the gravy to loosen it upwards before serving. Come across notes below for additional modifications/instructions.

Finishing in the Oven: Whether yous make this in the oven or in the Instant Pot, I recommend finishing past giving it about 10-20 minutes in a hot oven (400-ish degrees), uncovered, before serving. Information technology gets the meat dainty and caramelized on top and helps the gravy thicken upward.

Notes

Alternatives to Tapioca Pearls for thickening:

1. Just leave em out. Your gravy may be a fiddling less thick, but it will still be succulent.
2. Toss the beefiness in 1/3 cup flour, shake off excess and add to the Instant Pot as normal. If you do this and you have a newer Instant Pot, you will likely need additional liquid (I'll often practise a second can of tomato juice) to avert the burn warning on the Instant Pot.
3. Make a slurry of ii tablespoons corn starch and 1/4 loving cup water. Add together the slurry to everything in the Instant Pot after it'southward cooked.

Every bit written, this is more similar a traditional saucy beefiness stew. If you want it to exist more like a soup, only add a second tin of tomato plant juice and an extra compression of salt and sugar. The biggest challenge people take when blistering this in the oven is that the sauce/gravy dries out. I would advise adding a picayune bit of water (1/4 cup or so) before blistering, and and so periodically throughout blistering every bit needed. The browned gravy volition exist actually delicious, and a little water mixed in will hands bring information technology back to life. Another annotate we oft go is that the tapioca can sometimes yet be visible in very pocket-sized specks, which is okay. It'southward so small and it should be extremely soft subsequently cooking in the Instant Pot, so information technology's never interfered with my dear of this beef stew. It just looks like part of the gravy. But if that bothers yous, just effort one of our other tapioca-less methods listed above.

Freezer Meal Version

1. Freeze Together:
   2 lbs. beef chuck, fat trimmed, cut in modest-ish pieces
   one medium onion, sliced thinly
   6 stalks celery, sliced diagonally
   6 carrots, sliced diagonally
   2 teaspoons common salt
   one tablespoon sugar
   2 cans tomato juice (about 1 cup)
2. Instant Pot Instructions: High force per unit area 30 mins + 10 mins natural release
3. Slow Cooker Instructions: High setting six hours (thaw ingredients starting time)
4. Final Footstep: After cooking, add a cornstarch slurry to the stew (2-iii tbsp cornstarch + one-2 tbsp h2o). Transfer to a baking dish and broil for 5-10 minutes to become everything browned and thickened, or allow it rest in the pot until thickened.
5. Check out our full freezer meal posts with all recipes and instructions here!

• Prep Time: 10 minutes
• Cook Time: xl minutes
• Category: Dinner
• Cuisine: American

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