Simple Cook Perfect Hearty Italian Style Beef Stew

Hearty Italian Style Beef Stew.

To cook Hearty Italian Style Beef Stew you need 19 ingredients and just 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients

1. It's of stewing beef, diced.
2. Prepare of celery ribs, diced.
3. Prepare of medium/large carrots, diced.
4. It's of large onion, diced.
5. It's of garlic cloves, minced.
6. It's of cremini mushrooms, cut into quarters.
7. You need of cannellini beans, drained.
8. Prepare of tomato paste.
9. It's of Italian seasoning.
10. You need of dried oregano.
11. It's of dried basil.
12. Prepare of dried bay leaves.
13. You need of red wine.
14. It's of beef stock.
15. It's of flour or corn starch.
16. It's of large can diced tomatoes.
17. It's of Parsley, chopped (garnish, optional).
18. It's of Salt and pepper.
19. You need of olive oil.

Hearty Italian Style Beef Stew directions

1. In a dutch oven or pot, heat oil and brown beef..
2. Once beef has been browned, add onion, garlic, carrots and celery. Cook until onions are translucent..
3. Add your tomato paste and stir together. Then add your flour or corn starch and your herbs, salt and pepper and stir.
4. Add your red wine and cook all together until the wine has reduced to about half. Add your canned tomato, and beef stock. Stir and place lid on pot and let simmer on low for about 2 hr or until the beef is super tender and "shreds" when pulled with fork..
5. In the last 45 min add your mushrooms and your canned beans. Stir and let cook for remaining 45 min. (Remember this is a thick stew, there's not supposed to be a ton of liquid).