Beef Stew Recipes

Simple comfort food at its finest! Whether you use your slow cooker, stove top, or oven, hearty beef stew is just the thing to serve when the temperatures start falling. It's healthy, easy to make, and packed with flavor.

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Beef Stew

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You can make this beef stew in the oven or a slow cooker. Either way, in two simple steps, you will have a warming, wholesome, and wonderfully flavorful meal.

Classic Beef Stew

Aromatic and satisfying, a comforting bowl of beef stew always hits the mark on extra chilly nights. Here, seared pieces of marbled beef simmer away until fall-apart-tender in broth, with punchy aromatics added to it like tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, red wine, and fire-roasted tomatoes for a subtle smokiness.
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Easy Beef Chili

No beans in this hearty ground beef-based chili! The meat is cooked with aromatics, then amped up with fire-roasted tomatoes, chili powder, and cocoa.
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Jimmy Fallon's Crock-Pot Chili

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This easy Crock-Pot chili recipe is courtesy of comedian Jimmy Fallon.

Beef Shin and Carrot Stew

Our hearty Beef Shin and Carrot Stew has some Irish roots—it gets its depth of flavor from stout, and is a perfect dish to serve to warm up a March afternoon when the passing season's chill lingers.

Slow-Cooker Carne Guisada

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Beef simmered with garlic and peppers in a thick tomato sauce makes for a warm and satisfying dinner. A slow cooker turns a less expensive cut of meat into a flavorful stew. Serve it in flour tortillas or spoon over rice.

Slow-Cooker Sicilian-Style Beef Stew

For the best flavor, season the meat with salt and pepper the night before and store, covered, in the refrigerator.

Easy Beef Stew with Noodles

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Affordable chuck roast is a great choice for stews because it becomes tender and flavorful as it simmers. Cutting the meat into small pieces shortens the cooking time.

Hearty Beef Stew

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5 minutes of prep for a rich, wholesome stew? You can't beat that.

30-Minute Chili

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This easy chili recipe makes eight one-cup servings; if you reserve half, you'll also have enough for four servings of our Cheesy Hash-Brown Bake, a stick-to-your-ribs meal for later in the week.

Beef Bourguignon

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This hearty French-style stew is a classic combination of wine, garlic, and onion. Serve Beef Bourguignon with boiled or roasted new potatoes.

Slow-Cooker Beef and Tomato Stew

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Nothing hits the spot on a chilly winter night like a hearty bowl of stew. Boost the feel-good factor with this lighter version.
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Inspiration and Ideas

Brisket and Potato Stew
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Our slow-cooker beef brisket is the star of this warming one-pot stew. The braised meat lends this soup long-simmered flavor in a fraction of the time.
Spiced Beef Stew with Carrots and Chickpeas
This hearty dinner recipe combines beef with bell pepper, carrots, chickpeas, and Ethiopian berbere seasoning—a spice blend of up to twenty ingredients including chile, paprika, ginger, and garlic. The result is a fragrant stew that will perk up winter palates and delight the senses. To soak up every delicious drop, serve it over a bed of fluffy couscous.
Irish Beef and Stout Stew
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Light and Bright Beef Stew

With leeks, parsnips, dill, and white wine rather than red, this is not your typical beef stew. It's fresher and brighter and altogether brothier, an early spring recipe that's still comfort food but just right for shoulder season when the promise of warmer days is right around the corner.

All Beef Stew Recipes

Cincinnati Chili Dogs

Native Buckeyes pledge allegiance to this dog. Pile on the all-beef chili, heady with chocolate, cinnamon, and other spices, with abandon. The finishing touches are fundamental: yellow mustard, diced sweet onion, and lots of shredded cheddar cheese. Unless you're a pro at eating one, you may want to grab a knife and fork -- or a bib.

Slow-Cooker Beef and Black-Bean Chili

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There's no need to soak these dried beans because they simmer in the slow cooker. Save a little of the chopped red onion for a fresh garnish.

Texas Red Chili

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Some of the most satisfying chili around is the most basic: a beef and tomato base with a little heat from chiles to create excitement. This recipe calls for a combination of fresh and dried chiles to infuse the dish with an incredible depth of flavor. Avocado and tortilla chips temper the spice.

Ghastly Ghoulash

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This rich Hungarian beef stew is a labor of love and well worth the effort. Stew beef, such as chuck, becomes super tender when cooked with plenty of red wine, diced tomatoes, vegetables, and herbs for about two hours. Serve alongside buttery noodles tossed with caraway seeds.

Boeuf Bourguignon

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This Boeuf Bourguignon recipe has been adapted from Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1." It's a delicious French-style dish that makes for a lovely main.

Stovetop Chili Mac

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This one-pot wonder features hearty fall flavors that will have everyone asking for seconds.

Fireside Beef Stew

Our rich, comforting beef stew chock-full of root vegetables is just the thing to get you through winter. The one-pot wonder can be made two to three days in advance, then reheated and finished with the parsley-horseradish topping and the sour cream right before serving.

Beef Bourguignon

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Make this beef Bourguignon recipe for a delicious, traditional heart-warming meal. 

Beef Stew with Potatoes and Parsnips

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This stew features the herbal sweetness of parsnips and tender fingerling potatoes.

Chili Con Carne

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Chili con carne, a Texan creation, is a traditional one-dish dinner. Toppings -- avocado, scallions, tortilla chips, and cheese -- are up to each guest.

Beef Stew with Winter Vegetables

Buying a large piece of beef chuck and portioning it at home instead of buying cubed stew meat is a great way to infuse more flavor in to this hearty meal.

Quick Beef Stew with Cauliflower Puree

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Creamy cauliflower is low in carbohydrates, making it a good accompaniment (instead of potatoes) to this rich-tasting beef stew. To keep the beef cubes from sticking to the pan, let them form a crust before turning.

Picadillo-Style Chili

Spiced not spicy, our Spanish-style beef chili is light on tomatoes but big on flavor with cumin, cinnamon, and poblanos. It's served with almonds, olives, and currants that take it to the next level of deliciousness.

Beef Chili

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Serve this chunky sirloin version of chili in a tin cup, for a dish that warms not only the stomach but also the hands.

Pot au Feu

This hearty stew throws in everything but the kitchen sink. You should have leftovers.

Beef Stew with Fresh Horseradish

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Vegetable, Beef, and Barley Stew

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Start simmering this robust fall stew in the morning, and its irresistible flavors will greet you at dinner time. Some slow cookers have a stovetop-safe insert, so you can do all the cooking in one pot. If yours does not, use a skillet and then transfer the ingredients to the slow cooker.

North African Beef-and-Carrot Stew with Mint

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Talk about fast and flavorful; this recipe pairs beef (we're talking sirloin here), with it's old pal carrots but gives them a new spin with cinnamon, cayenne, and fresh mint. Plus it takes just 35 minutes to make.

Heather's Texas Red Chili

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Chipotle adds a hint of smokiness as well as a touch of heat to this earthy chili. If they're not available in your grocery store, substitute 1/2 cup dried chili powder instead.

Real-Deal Chili

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Bacon adds smoky flavor to this authentic Southwestern beef chili. Masa harina, or fine cornmeal, helps thicken it. Serve the lime wedges on the side.

Barbecued Oxtail

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Chef Marcus Samuelsson shared this recipe for barbecued oxtail from his cookbook, "The Soul of New Cuisine."

Beef Stew with Almonds and Dried Fruit

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Many stews are thickened with flour, but this hearty one is safe for gluten-intolerant diners.

Healthy Beef Chili

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We've trimmed down a speeded-up Tex-Mex classic, ready in just 40 minutes. For beefy flavor without excess fat, pick ground sirloin instead of chuck. We've added extra portions of traditional (and nutritious) ingredients, such as beans and tomatoes.

Boeuf Bourguignon 101

This classic French-style dish is a concoction of beef slowly steeped in Burgundy wine that is at once seductive and—since it's a simple stew at heart—laid-back. Boeuf Bourguignon is a classic satisfying dish everyone will love. 
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