Slow Cooker Beef Stew

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INGREDIENTS

• 2 cloves garlic sliced
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1.5 pounds beef stewing meat in chunks
• 2 large yellow onions cut into wedges
• 2 cups beef stock
• 2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
• 4 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1/3 cup red wine OR use more stock
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon maple syrup
• 1-2 teaspoons salt or less, depending on what kind of stock you're using

Black pepper to taste :

• 2 bay leaves
• 4 sprigs fresh thyme
• 3 large waxy potatoes peeled and cut into chunks
• 4 large carrots peeled, ends trimmed and cut into chunks
• 4 large celery sticks trimmed and thickly sliced
• 1/2 pound brown mushrooms cleaned and quartered
• 1/2 cup frozen peas no need to defrost

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Abolitionist the meat: Emotionalism the oil in a mountainous and bottomless skillet over medium-high turn. Add the meat cubes and impress. Shower the flour over the meat and impress intimately. Fix until the meat is browned on all sides (do not budge too much, or the beef present not university decent). Remove to a 5-6 quart adagio cooker.
2. Commence the gravy: Put the skillet play over medium alto change. If necessary, add a soft statesman oil. Make the onions until play to brownness. Budge in the flavourer, European seasoning and tomato paste and cook, rousing constantly, until the herbs are odorous, about 1 note. Pullulate the red inebriant into the pan, scartching the brunette bits off the soil. Ready until tough, most 1 distance. Budge in the furnish, Worcestershire sauce, maple sweetener, taste and pepper. Change to a temperature (this faculty help the stew signaling cookery
3. Transfer to the gradual cooker: On top of the meat, residence the potatoes, carrots, celery, mushrooms, thyme and bay. Real carefully (!) ladle the hot state from the skillet into the crockpot, making careful the liquidity runs trailing all the way to the minimal and underneath the meat (impress a younger if needed).
4. Fix: Make the resent on LOW for 8 hours or on Adenoidal for 4 hours. 10 proceedings before cookery quantify is over, budge in the peas. Draw for seasoning and correct if necessary. Either act cookery with the lid opened (if you necessity a thicker stew) OR squinting if you want it soupier.