VAL'S SLOW COOKER HONEY-GARLIC BEEF STEW Recipe; Coalinga-CA

I woke up in the mood for beef stew 🥩🥣

I also wanted a change 🤔 from my usual beef stew recipe, and I wanted to make it an immune boosting meal ⚕️ … so, eyeballing the garlic infused honey 🧄🐝 on the counter; I decided to use some of that, with ingredients I pulled 🤞 from what I had in the pantry & in the 'fridge - and came up with this interesting version 👨‍🍳

The kitchen smelled SO GOOD 😋 while the stew simmered it's way to a nose-tantalizing, tongue-pleasing, deliciousness 😁

Val's Slow Cooker Honey-Garlic Beef Stew, served with Homestyle Biscuits on the side.

Val's Slow Cooker Honey-Garlic Beef Stew Recipe ~4 servings

1 lb. Beef Chuck, boneless & cut to 1-inch cubes * 1/2 c. Red Wine * 3/4 c. Beef Broth * 1/4 cup Honey * 3 sm. Mini Peppers * 1 Roma Tomato * 1/2 Yellow Onion, quartered * 2 sm. Shiitake Mushrooms, quartered * 2 med. Carrots, washed & sliced * 5 sm. Potatoes, rinsed & quartered * 1 sm. Zucchini squash, shredded * 4 cloves garlic, whole * 1-1/2 TBSP Flour * 1/2 tsp. Italian Seasoning * 1 sm. Bay Leaf * Salt & Black Pepper, to taste (I use a salt substitute) * 1 TBSP. Parsley, chopped 

8-Qt. Slowcooker Crockpot; Manual Pull Food Chopper; 1 Vegetable Shredder-Grater; 1 Tea Ball (for Bay Leaf); Measuring Spoons; 1 Lrg. Pyrex Measuring Cup; 1 sm. Whisk; 1 Lrg. Cooking Spoon; Soup Bowls

Beef Stew Ingredients.

1) In the Pyrex cup - blend the wine, beef broth, & honey; set aside.

2) Place beef cubes in the slow cooker crock; add potatoes, carrots & garlic cloves.

Beef, potatoes, carrots & garlic.

3) Slice and seed the peppers & tomato - place inside the food chopper; add onion & mushrooms … slice to your desired preference; set aside.

Peppers, tomato, onion & mushrooms; chopped.

4) Shred zucchini: blend with chopped veggies - add to meat & vegetable mixture in crock. Blend well to incorporate crock mixture.

Shredded zucchini.

5) Add the flour, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, and parsley, to the prepared liquid mixture … and add to crockpot medley. Put the bay leaf inside the tea ball and place in the center of the crockpot mixture. Place lid on top, and set temperature to HIGH.

6) In about 2 hours, reduce heat from High to LOW; cook another 4 hours.

VAL'S BEEF STEW RECIPE; Ocean Park-WA

I like stew when the weather is cold and wet - today was Stew Day.

More rain …

Holland had to make a run into Longview this morning, to get Betsy's transmission maintenance & oil change done, so I simmered this stew in my crockpot from the time he left, until he returned: the house smelled wonderful, and my husband liked it so well - there are no left-overs.

VAL'S BEEF STEW ~makes 5 or 6 servings

1 pound Beef cubes * 1½ Tbsp. Olive Oil * 2 cups Water * ½ teaspoon Salt * 1/8 teaspoon ground Black Pepper * 2 large Potatoes, cut into 1½ -inch pieces (about ½ cup) * 2 medium carrots, cut into 1-inch pieces (about 1 cup) * 1 medium Green Bell Pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces (about 1 cup) * 1 medium stalk Celery, cut into 1-inch pieces (about ½ cup) * 1 Yellow Onion, chopped * 2 large cloves Garlic, pressed * 1 cup Peas * 1 Bay Leaf * 1 pkt. Lowry's Beef Stew Seasoning mix * 2 TBSP Flour * 1 cup Water

Beef Stew Ingredients.

1) Place meat, veggies (except peas), & seasonings, into the crock.

Garlic, pressed.

Meat, veggies, & Bay Leaf (in tea ball).

2) Blend Lowry's dry seasoning mix, flour, & 1 cup water; then add to meat & veggie combo.

Lowry's Seasoning, blended w-water going in …

3) Set crockpot temperature gauge to High setting until stew boils … then reduce heat to Low and cook 5 hours.

4) Add Peas & cook an additional hour.