KY cooks – Beef Stew Recipe with Pressure Cooker
I’ve always love beef stew, a hearty dish with super tender beef in thick and flavorful broth, and with the various vegetable in it, a full and balanced meal all by itself.
ingredients for beef stew
I always thought making a pot of mean beef stew is an exercise in patience, but after doing a bit of research, I found out you can actually make a perfect bowl of beef stew in less than 30 minutes, including time for preparation – with the help of a pressure cooker.
pan fry the beef till brown, then add water and rosemary
The ingredients (this is good for 4 bowls)
- 4-500 gram beef (lower quality is fine, I love those with some tendon and fat attached)
- 1 bulb of garlic
- 4-5 sticks of celery
- 2 onions
- 3 carrots
- 2 potato
- 1 table spoon rosemary (dried is fine)
- 1.5 table spoon salt
- 1 tea spoon black pepper
- 2 table spoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 table spoon cooking oil
- 1 table spoon flour
chopped up vegetables and put in pressure cooker for another 8 minutes
Here’s the instructions, pressure cooker is used twice to ensure the beef gets to it’s super tender consistency while keeping the vegetable not overly cooked
- heat up some oil in the pressure cooker, then add garlic, and fry beef till all sides are brown
- add Worcestershire sauce, 3 cups of water, pepper, and rosemary
- bring to boil, cover the pressure cooker and cook for 15 minutes in high pressure
- in the mean time, chop up all vegetable and potato to bite size chunks
- release pressure (by running cold water over the pressure cooker in the sink), then add vegetable to the pot
- bring to boil and cook for another 8 minutes in high pressure
- add salt
- slowly add up to a table spoon of flour while stirring to make the broth thicker
- serve while hot
a bowl of hearty stew with super tender beef
The result is a pot of beef stew that is prepared in less than 30 minutes but with beef so tender it almost melt in your mouth. If you don’t have a pressure cooker, you’ll have to boil the stew for at least 3-4 hours to get the same result. Alternatively, use a slow cooker.
11:51 pm
you can really cook. Reminds me of the phrase “Yan can cook”
7:59 am
Isaac: haha that old man is back on TV tho
12:35 am
sounds healthy and looks temptingly tasty. btw, thank goodness i’m not fasting. i’m not sure how i’d still be able to read food blogs during the daytime if i were…
7:59 am
Sean: yah, fasting is no easy stuff man
3:28 am
Hi, great to see pressure cooker recipes. Keep posting!
7:59 am
Anon: thanks thanks
6:21 am
I wish I own a pressure cooker. Sigh.
7:59 am
Michelle: Buy one
10:08 am
KY,
Love your blog man and talking about stew, I just made bouef bourguinon last Saturday. Emptied a whole bottle of red wine as liquid and oven heated for 5 hours, results were amazing.
You should try that too…
Btw, where do you get your pressure cooker and how much??
10:18 am
nick au: wow that sounds awesome. the pressure cooker was given by mom, a very old unit actually, you can get them from 2-300 ringgit I think
10:36 am
mine takes a lil longer and thicker stew ^^ i usually make a big pot then re cycle left overs as meat pot pie or put in sandwich ^^
10:37 am
btw…i see cen poking his nose in on the 1st pic ^^
10:47 am
Glo-w: that’s a good idea, i just drink mine the next day too. lol, and yah cendawan was there
11:04 am
superb and thanks for sharing! tot of making this over weekend using iron cast pot, let u know how it turns out..
11:20 am
connie: you’re welcome! and good luck ya
1:21 pm
wah your pressure cooker damn deep lo
3:20 pm
eiling: yah it’s a big one!
1:39 pm
Yum yum!!! Can you come over to Beijing and cook for me (and my Big Lady), please??? *wags tail*
3:21 pm
Truffle: dog can’t eat human food!
5:15 pm
slow cooker method is pretty convenient also! just pop everything in before you go out for work, by evening you’ll have an awesome stew waiting for you at home.
10:58 pm
irene: yah but more consumption in energy!
9:31 pm
The wonders of a pressure cooker!
Looks pretty good!
11:05 pm
Huai Bin: yeah, get one!
8:58 am
Reminds me of the vietnamese beef stew bo kho. Found a nice recipe here http://gastronomyblog.com/2009/03/30/bo-kho-vietnamese-beef-stew/
9:10 am
DC: that looks good! but wonder where I can find those bo kho seasoning
10:50 am
i like cartilage. needs more cartilage!!
2:22 pm
ciki: me too!!!
11:16 am
HOW IS A BEEF STEW WITH NO GUINNESS?
2:22 pm
FA: bulan puasa halal version ma this one. hehe
1:06 am
Yah wtf, where’s the Guinness.
8:29 am
ShaolinTiger: next time la, low budget ma. hahaha