Slow Cooker Beef & Stout Stew

My beef and stout stew is a delicious slow cooker recipe.  Add all the ingredients to the slow cooker, go to work and come home to a lovely meal

 Recipe:

Method:

1)  Peel potatoes and cut into chunks

2)  Peel carrots and cut into chunks

3)  Peel onions and quarter

4)  Grate garlic cloves

5)  Place all veg and garlic into your slow cooker

6)  Mix beef stock with tomato puree

7)  Cut the braising steak into 1 inch cubes, season with salt and pepper and toss in plain flour then brown in a pan in 1 tbsp of olive oil

8)  Once browned add the braising steak to the slow cooker on top of the vegetables

9)  Warm the beef stock / tomato puree mix in the same pan that you browned the braising steak in.  Be sure to get all the bits of beef from the base of the pan.

10)  Pour the beef stock / tomato puree mix over the ingredients in the slow cooker

11)  Add the bottle of stout

12)  Cook on low for 8 hours or high for 6 hours

13)  Approx an hour before the end of cooking, mix together the cornflour and water to make a thin paste.  Dissolve into beef mixture and mix to thicken the gravy

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