Stew Recipe
Jeff’s Paleo Stew
Ingredients
- 1.5 lbs of stew meat (Trader Joe’s sells pre-packaged pre cut stew meat)
- 1 large or 2 medium sized onions (Any Kind will do, I like Vidalia but I used Red Onions here)
- 8oz of whole White Mushroom
- 1 lb of carrots (I use baby carrots here but usually prefer rainbow carrots)
- 2 – 3 sweet potatoes or regular potatoes
- 1 quart Beef Broth
- 5-6 cloves of garlic
- 2 Bay leaves
- 2 tsp freshly ground pepper
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp rosemary
- 1 tsp thyme
Steps
Collect your ingredients:
Stew Meat:
![Beef! It's whats for dinner Beef! It's whats for dinner](../images/cooking/ingredient-beef.jpg)
Onions:
![Onions, try not to cry :'( Onions, try not to cry :'(](../images/cooking/ingredient-onion.jpg)
Mushrooms:
![Mushrooms, wash them well, they grow in shit Mushrooms, wash them well, they grow in shit](../images/cooking/ingredient-mushrooms.jpg)
Carrots:
![What's up doc? Carrots, Wish I had rainbows](../images/cooking/ingredient-carrots.jpg)
Potatoes
![Potatoes, I like em sweet Potatoes, I like em sweet](../images/cooking/ingredient-potatos.jpg)
Garlic
![Keep away the vampires Keep away the vampires](../images/cooking/ingredient-garlic.jpg)
Beef Broth:
![dead animal juice dead animal juice](../images/cooking/ingredient-broth.jpg)
Spices:
![Not the drug Not the drug](../images/cooking/ingredient-spices.jpg)
Prep your ingredients:
Cut the ends off of the onion
![step 1 prep](../images/cooking/step-prep-onion.jpg)
Cut the onion into eight wedges
![step 2 prep](../images/cooking/step-prep-onion-2.jpg)
![step 3 prep](../images/cooking/step-prep-onion-3.jpg)
Wash the mushrooms very well then slice them in half
![step 4 prep](../images/cooking/step-prep-mushrooms-2.jpg)
Scrub the potatos and cut the into (approximately) 1 inch chunks
![step 5 prep](../images/cooking/step-prep-potato.jpg)
Cut carrots (if not using baby carrots) into 1 inch chunks
Put it in the cooker:
Start with a layer of about ½ of your onions
![step 6](../images/cooking/step-01.jpg)
Add about ½ of your carrots
![step 7](../images/cooking/step-02.jpg)
Add about ½ of your potatoes
![step 8](../images/cooking/step-03.jpg)
Add about ½ of your mushrooms
![step 9](../images/cooking/step-04.jpg)
Put in the two bay leaves
![step 10](../images/cooking/step-05.jpg)
Put in all of your meat
![step 11](../images/cooking/step-06.jpg)
Put in your garlic
Put in the rest of your vegetables
![step 13](../images/cooking/step-07.jpg)
Sprinkle on all of the spices
Pour the entire quart of broth into the slow cooker (try to cover as many veggies as possible)
Give everything a quick mix
Set the slow cooker to ‘Low’ for at least 10 hours. I have set it for as long as 16 hours, the longer it cooks the more tender the meat is.
![step 17](../images/cooking/step-08.jpg)
EAT YOUR CREATION:
![step 18](../images/cooking/eat.jpg)