Recipe: Perfect Beef Stew

Beef Stew.

To make Beef Stew you need 12 ingredients and just 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients

1. You need of (2.5 Lbs) Chuck Roast.
2. Prepare of (2) Cups of beef broth.
3. Prepare of (6) Tbsp of Olive Oil.
4. It's of (3) Tbsp of Butter.
5. Prepare of (3/4) Cup of Flour.
6. You need of Salt and Pepper.
7. You need of (2) Tbsp of Balsamic Vinegar.
8. It's of (1) Onion, diced.
9. Prepare of (1) Large can diced tomatoes.
10. It's of (5) Potatoes, diced. Skin on.
11. Prepare of (5) Carrots, skinned and cut into 2 inch pieces.
12. You need of (4) Cups of water. (Approximately).

Beef Stew step by step

1. Dice Chuck Roast into 1inch pieces..
2. Put flour, salt and pepper into a large bowl. Add diced Chuck Roast. Mix/coat well..
3. In a cast iron pan, heat Olive Oil, butter. Fry the flour coated Chuck Roast until dark brown, in batches as not to over fill pan. Add in Balsamic Vinegar to first batch..
4. In a large pot, add the beef broth and diced tomatoes..
5. Dice potatoes, carrots and Onion..
6. Add all of the fried Chuck to pot. Add the remaining juices from cast iron pan to pot. Add the water..
7. Add all the vegetables to pot. At this point make sure there is enough water in pot to cover everything well..
8. Cover and simmer on very Low for 4-5 hour's. Checking every few hours on the liquid. Add some water when or if you need to..
9. Enjoy with some cornbread or bread and butter..