Crockpot Beef Stew

What you need~
1 pound stew meat
6 potatoes peeled and cubed
6 carrots peeled and chunk cut
2 stalks of celery diced
1/4 onion diced
1 large clove of garlic minced
1 quart of Beef Broth or Stock or water ...doesn't matter honestly!
2 packets of beef stew mix
2 cups of flour with 1T. salt added

TOTAL COST~ roughly 10 bucks for a large crock pot full of beef stew!

First take the meat cut the chunks smaller into bite size...they will be super tender that way. Then place the pieces all at once in flour....in a large skillet add in 2T. margarine or butter and 2T. oil and make it hot.... we want to sear the meat... then take meat and coat in with your fingers and strain off excess flour ...we want  dry flour dredged meat. Then place meat in skillet and in a single layer and brown up ...but not totally cook...so around 5 minutes tops in pan. Place in crock pot.

Then saute up the garlic and onion on medium low until the onion turn translucent or clear like color... add into the meat.

Mix together the beef stew packet and broth in the pan...don't rinse pan a all... we want all the flavors from meat, and onions. Mix up for a minute or so then dump into the meat sitting in crock pot.

Peel, cut and dice up the veggies and place in the crock pot. Keep pieces small if cooking a short time. But never make them to big it would take more than a bite.

Place the lid on crock pot...and cook high 3 hours or low 6-8 hours.

This is the beautiful dish once its cooked and tender :) Enjoy with some biscuits, cornbread or homemade dinner rolls. :) The meat is sooo tender it melts in my mouth and the veggies are soft but not mushy!