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 tea 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.
