5 Hour Beef Stew

  4.8 – 9 reviews  • Beef

To prepare this traditional homemade cranberry sauce for your holiday feast, use your Instant Pot. Use cranberries however you’d like, fresh or frozen.

Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 5 hrs
Total Time: 5 hrs 20 mins
Servings: 10
Yield: 10 servings

Ingredients

  1. 2 pounds beef tenderloin steaks, diced
  2. 8 potatoes, peeled and diced
  3. 4 (12 ounce) cans tomato-vegetable juice cocktail (such as V8®)
  4. 3 cups diced carrots
  5. 1 cup diced celery
  6. 1 onion, diced
  7. 3 tablespoons tapioca
  8. 1 tablespoon white sugar
  9. salt and ground black pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).
  2. Stir beef, potatoes, tomato-vegetable juice cocktail, carrots, celery, onion, tapioca, sugar, salt, and pepper together in a roasting pan; cover.
  3. Bake in preheated oven until beef and potatoes are tender, about 5 hours.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 399 kcal
Carbohydrate 45 g
Cholesterol 76 mg
Dietary Fiber 7 g
Protein 30 g
Saturated Fat 4 g
Sodium 470 mg
Sugars 10 g
Fat 10 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Bryan Stein
Made it exactly how the directions stated and it was delicious. Next time I make it, I’ll brown the beef beforehand and try the Worcestershire sauce addition as others have mentioned.
Heather Hernandez
Made a few changes, since I didn’t have V-8 juice. I used vegetable broth which I added a can of diced tomatoes and used a stick blender to combine. Also I added a beef bouillon cube and it turned out delicious.
Shannon Hudson
My family liked this stew. I was out of tapioca so I tossed the beef with 1/4 cup flour with salt and pepper and I just forgot about the sugar. It stilled turned out great!
Monique Gordon
Wonderful recipe. Took Kathy’s suggestion and cooked it in the crockpot for 10 hours. Will definitely make again.
Matthew Collier
I made it like it written, just added string beans and at the
Henry Drake
This is a very good yet simple tasting stew. I’ve made it many times when out of town guests were coming but arrival time was not certain. It has always been a hit with everyone I’ve served. I’ve made it with tomato juice and V-8. Both were good but V-8 seems to add more flavor as I suspected it would. The original recipe I used in years past had you add potato wedges for only the last hour. This time I followed the recipe and added them at the beginning. It doesn’t seem to make a difference either way. I worried these would be overcooked but they were not. Thank you for sharing this!
Robin Gordon
I’ve been making this for years and my mom for years before me. I use baby carrots, baby reds 1 celery stalk, 1 med onion and three lbs stew meat. Inexpensive meat works great it will turn out tasty and tender after 5 hours in the oven. I also use lots of garlic and pepper and a couple splashes of Worcestershire sauce.
Sean Howell
I used a couple of bags of frozen “stew” blend (onion, celery, potato, carrot) vegetables and used double the amount or granulates instant tapioca. Thank you so much for sharing, this was always one of my favorites, my mom used to make it when I was little. Just as I good as I remember it!
Ann Burnett
Put in crockpot and cooked 10 hours, good flavor

 

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