Guinness Beef Stew (Irish Stew!)

This Guinness Beef Stew is our spin on a basic Irish Stew. It’s so wealthy, flavorful, advert excellent for a comfortable day in. It’s made with seasoned beef chunks, Guinness beer, and greens.

Scrumptious Guinness Beef Stew

There’s nothing higher {that a} scorching bowl of beef stew on a cold day. This Guinness beef stew is wealthy, made with tender chunks of beef, and full of veggies. It’s our tackle an Irish Stew and we’re so enthusiastic about it.

Conventional Irish beef stew makes use of lamb, however we’re buying and selling out the lamb for a chuck roast and it cooks till it will get tender, juicy, and scrumptious.

Featured Elements

• Guinness beer: Irish beef is historically made with a darkish Guinness beer. If provides the stew a scrumptious depth of taste.
• Chuck roast: when you’re searching for beef in your Guinness stew, you shouldn’t have a tough time discovering a chuck roast, most grocery shops carry a great chuck roast.
• Flour: we use somewhat little bit of flour within the beef dry rub which helps thicken the meat stew whereas it simmers.
• Greens: we use a scrumptious combination of onions, garlic, mushrooms, carrots, and celery as our veggies for this beef stew recipe.
• Tomato Paste: there’s a little bit of tomato paste on this recipe to assist thicken your beef stew.
• Beef Broth: if you happen to each wish to take a scrumptious soup or stew up a notch use beef broth. It provides a ton or richness and taste to each soup or stew.

Finest Beef for Beef Stew

How do you select the very best beef for this Guinness Beef Stew? We love boneless chuck roast for beef stew for a pair causes:

• It’s a more durable lower of meat than many leaner alternate options, however when cooked low and sluggish in a Dutch oven it breaks down the meat and turns into oh so tender and scrumptious.
• Beef chuck is a less expensive lower of meat that means this high-end tasting beef stew is tremendous budget-friendly.

Professional tip: you’ll typically see chuck roast labeled as a chuck tender roast in grocery tales. This simply means it’s a lower of the chuck roast, and it’ll nonetheless work effectively for this recipe!

Easy Directions

1. Chunk the meat and toss in spices. Reduce your beef chunks into 2-2.5-inch chunks and toss them with the dried spices and let the meat sit within the spices for half-hour to tenderize.
2. Brown the meat. As soon as the meat has sat, brown the meat in a Dutch oven till the meat is browned.
3. Add all components to the Dutch oven. Deglaze the skillet with beef broth and take away the little brown bits from the underside of the Dutch oven. Then, saute all of the veggies within the dutch oven to melt them. Lastly, add the remainder of the components to the Dutch oven and make certain you whisk within the tomato paste.
4. Simmer. Deliver the broth to a boil after which decrease the warmth to simmer and simmer the stew for 1.5-2 hours or till the meat is tender.
5. Get pleasure from. Serve this stew over mashed potatoes or on it’s personal.

High Ideas

All the time brown the meat. Browning the meat earlier than cooking your stew within the sluggish cooker does require an additional dish (on this case a pan!), nevertheless it attracts out the scrumptious flavors of the meat, which permits it to soak into each little bit of this stew because it cooks down. We promise this step is 100% WORTH IT.

Add somewhat spice. So as to add a little bit of a bit to your stew you may add some crimson pepper flakes to the dry rub or add just a few teaspoons of scorching sauce to the stew. It sounds unusual, however tastes good.

Don’t have Guinness beer? In the event you don’t have Guinness beer, don’t have any worry. You should utilize any darker beer. Stouts are likely to style the very best.

FAQ

What to Serve with Gradual Cooker Beef Stew

Serve this deliciously savory beef stew with one thing starchy (what higher to absorb that yummy broth with!)

How you can Retailer Guinness Beef Stew

Retailer this stew in an air-tight container within the fridge for 3-4 days.

To Freeze: let cool fully earlier than transferring into an air-tight container, ensuring to take away as a lot air as attainable. Place into the freezer for as much as 3 months.

How you can Reheat Guinness Beef Stew

We like to reheat this Guinness beef stew simply because it was cooked — low and sluggish!

Within the Oven: Permit the meat stew come to room temperature (about half-hour) earlier than inserting in an oven-safe dish with a lid. Reheat at 350°F for 45 minutes, or till reheated totally.

Guinness Beef Stew

Seize a can of your favourite darkish beer and make a giant pot of this Guinness beef stew for the week!

Prep:20 minutes

Cook dinner:2 hours

Complete:2 hours 20 minutes

Fats 20

Carbs 29

Protein 49

Elements

• 1 teaspoon dried rosemary
• 1/2 teaspoon floor black pepper
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1 tablespoon garlic powder
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt separated
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour separated
• 2.5-3- lbs. beef chuck roast
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 giant white onion chopped
• 5 cloves garlic peeled and minced
• 4 giant celery stalks lower into 1.5-inch chunks
• 4 giant carrots peeled and lower into 1.5-inch chunks
• 10- oz. Bella mushrooms halved
• 15- oz. can Guinness beer or any darkish beer (~2 cups)
• 1 cup beef broth separated
• 1.5 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 10 sprigs recent thyme tied in a bundle

Directions 

• First, start by getting ready your chuck roast. Reduce the meat into 2-2.5-inch items after which place into a big bowl.

• Subsequent, combine collectively your beef stew seasoning by inserting rosemary, pepper, thyme, onion powder, paprika, garlic powder, brown sugar, 1.5 teaspoons salt, and 1 tablespoon of flour right into a small bowl. Combine to mix after which sprinkle on high of beef chunks and toss to coat the meat.

• Wrap the meat in plastic wrap and place it within the fridge. Let the meat sit within the dry rub for half-hour or as much as 2 hours.

• Take away the meat from the fridge and let the meat come to room temperature.

• Warmth a big Dutch oven over medium/excessive warmth. Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil. When the olive oil is aromatic, add half of the meat chunks to the skillet. Brown beef chunks for 1.5-2 minutes, flip, and brown for one more 1.5-2 minutes. Then, take away the primary batch of beef chunks and repeat with the remaining half. As soon as browned, take away all beef from the skillet and put aside.

• Subsequent, deglaze the skillet by pouring 1/4 cup of the meat broth into the skillet and scrape the skillet with a spatula to free all of the brown bits from the pan.

• Add 1 extra tablespoon of olive oil to the pan and add the onion. Sprinkle the onion with ¼ teaspoon of the remaining salt. Saute the onion within the beef broth for 3-4 minutes. Add garlic.

• When the garlic is aromatic add the celery, carrots, and mushrooms to the pot and saute all of the veggies collectively for a further 3-4 minutes.

• Subsequent, add the can of Guinness, remaining beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, maple syrup, tomato paste, and the remaining salt into the sluggish cooker and whisk all of it collectively till the tomato paste has dissolved into the broth.

• Place the recent thyme bundle into the dutch oven and ensure it's submerged into the liquid.

• Deliver the stew to a boil, give it a stir, after which cowl. Flip the warmth to low and let the stew simmer for 1.5-2 hours, stirring often. You'll know when the meat stew is completed if the meat is fork tender and pulls aside simply.

• As soon as the meat is tender, take away the thyme bundle from the stew. If the stew is your required thickness, serve the stew. If you need your stew a bit thicker, take away ¼ cup of the broth from the stew.

• Add the final tablespoon of flour to the liquid and blend till thick. Add again into the stew and whisk till it's mixed. Deliver to a mild simmer and the stew will thicken.

• Serve this Guinness beef stew over mashed potatoes.

Ideas & Notes

Be certain you let the meat sit within the beef seasoning lengthy sufficient, it helps tenderize the meat.
You should utilize any sort of mushroom that you desire to!
Letting the meat stew simmer over low warmth for 1.5-2 hours is essential. In the event you don’t let the stew simmer, you'll find yourself with robust beef.
This Guinness Beef Stew (also referred to as Irish Stew) is supposed to be served over mashed potatoes!

Diet details

Energy: 472kcal Carbohydrates: 29g Protein: 49g Fats: 20g Ldl cholesterol: 138mg Sodium: 557mg Fiber: 6g Sugar: 17g