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.