Delicious stew recipe for the slow cooker from Western Alaska. Use cattle, moose, or other regional meat to make it more suited to your area. Put it in the slow cooker or on the wood stove, and allow the savory aroma of warmth and comfort to permeate your house.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 8 hrs 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 8 hrs 25 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 servings |
Ingredients
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 ½ pounds moose meat, cut into cubes
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, or as needed
- 4 cups beef stock
- 3 large potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 4 carrots, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 4 stalks celery, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 (14 ounce) can diced tomatoes with juice
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 ½ teaspoons dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 2 bay leaves
Instructions
- Place flour in a shallow bowl; press meat into the flour to coat and shake off the excess flour.
- Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium; cook and stir meat until browned on all sides, about 5 minutes. Transfer meat to a large slow cooker. Pour beef stock over meat in slow cooker; add potatoes, carrots, celery, onion, diced tomatoes with juice, oregano, Worcestershire sauce, thyme, garlic, and bay leaves. Gently stir mixture.
- Cook on Low for 8 hours.
- The stew can also be cooked on the stove in a Dutch oven.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 327 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 40 g |
| Cholesterol | 69 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 6 g |
| Protein | 33 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 243 mg |
| Sugars | 7 g |
| Fat | 4 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
It was quite bland at first. I added some Montreal Steak Spice, extra garlic and a dash of chili powder. Gave it some zing and it was the rave of our potluck.
Don’t have Caribou in SC but lots of White Tail deer. Used this recipe but with venison and it was great. Cooked for 8 hrs in the slow cooker and venison was perfect. Added 1/2 cup of red wine to give a fuller flavor.
Delicious. I made it exactly like the recipe with moose meat.
used 1.1kg of frozen caribou meat – it was delicious and lasted me and my partner several days. Excellent fresh and heated up.
Loved by everyone. Will make this again soon and I wouldn’t change a thing.
The caribou was super tender and not gamey at all! I would definitely recommend this recipe.
I have never had or cooked caribou before, this was my very first time. I was a bit nervous after hearing so many mixed opinions about caribou meat -gamey/tough/dry etc. A friend gave us a nice caribou shoulder so..here we are..eating this Caribou stew for dinner!! I made this EXACTLY as written. I have to say….I would have thought it was beef stew if I didn’t know better. This made a great big crockpot full of stew…my in laws came over to have dinner with us and they too enjoyed it and thought it was beef. Anyways …thumbs up all around here:) Thank you for a great recipe 🙂