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Slow Cooker Irish Stew is the perfect way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day or any day. Â Hearty and delicious!
Do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a special dinner? This Irish stew is full of delicious flavor and loaded with beef, potatoes, and carrots. It is a great meal for St. Patty’s Day or any day.
Authentic Irish Stew is made with Guinness, the national beverage of Ireland. Â I made a substitute for Guinness in this recipe by using more beef broth in it’s place. Â So for those of you who want an authentic Irish Stew feel free to sub out a cup of the beef broth for Guinness.
Ingredients Needed
- Boneless Beef Chuck
- Beef Broth
- Tomato Paste
- Red Potatoes
- Carrots
- Onion
- Garlic
- All Purpose Flour
- Canola Oil
- Soy Sauce
- Sugar
- Dried Parsley, Dried Thyme, and Bay Leaves
- Salt and Pepper
- Guinness, optional
How to Make Irish Stew
- Combine flour, salt and pepper in a large zippered plastic bag. Add in meat and toss to coat.
- Heat oil in a large pan over medium high heat
- Add meag and brown on all sides.
- Place meat in slow cooker.
- Add onion into same pan that you cooked the meat in and cook until onion is golden brown.
- Add in beef broth, Guinness if desired, and garlic to the pan.
- Bring to a boil and deglaze pan.
- Add in parsley, thyme, bay leaves, sugar, soy sauce and tomato paste.
- Pour mixture into the crock pot, over the meat.
- Cook on high for 4 hours.
- Add in potatoes and carrots and cook one additional hour.
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Slow Cooker Irish Stew
Ingredients
- 3 lbs boneless beef chuck or stew meat
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1 large onion chopped
- 4 cups beef broth
- 4 tsp chopped garlic
- 2 Tbsp tomato paste
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tsp dried parsley
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 lb. red potatoes quartered
- 3 carrots peeled and cut into one inch pieces
Instructions
- Combine flour, salt and pepper in a large zippered plastic bag. Add in meat and toss to coat.
- Heat oil in a large pan over medium high heat and cook meat until browned on all sides.
- Place meat in slow cooker.
- Add onion into same pan that you cooked the meat in and cook until onion is golden brown. Add in beef broth and garlic. Bring to a boil. Scrape up pieces of food from bottom of pan.
- Add in parsley, thyme, bay leaves, sugar, soy sauce and tomato paste.
- Pour mixture over meat.
- Cook on high for 4 hours and then add in potatoes and carrots and cook one additional hour.
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Kerry Canning says
Can you do this recipe in an instant pot?
Leigh Anne says
Yes, it should work great. I have an Instant Pot Stew recipe on the blog, you could just use the directions from that recipe.
Barbara A Dixon says
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Leigh Anne says
i hope you enjoy them!