Mamaw's 5 Hour Beef Stew

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4.67 from 3 votes

Mamaw's 5 Hour Beef Stew is an old fashioned, thick, beef stew recipe that easy is to make and a family favorite!

Course Main Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword easy, Old fashioned, Stew Meat

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 5

Servings people

Author The Farmwife Cooks

Equipment

7 Quart Dutch Oven

Ingredients

2 lbs Beef Stew Meat
6 carrots cut up
6 potatoes cut up
1 cup celery diced
1 green pepper diced
1 or 2 onions chopped
1 heaping Tbls sugar
3 heaping Tbls tapioca uncooked
2 10.75 oz cans Tomato Soup
18 oz V-8 juice
Salt and Pepper to taste

Instructions

In a Dutch Oven layer the first 6 ingredients in order given, sprinkle with sugar and Tapioka.
Do not stir.
Mix one cup of water with two cans of soup and V-8 juice pour over ingredient in Dutch Oven.
Cover and bake for 5 hours at 300 degree oven.
Do not stir or raise the lid.

Notes

Can this recipe be made in the slow cooker? Yes it can! I have made it in a 7 quart Crock Pot. Cook 6-8 hours on low. All slow cookers cook differently so I always recommend keeping a close eye the first time you make a recipe.

Can you make this recipe without a specific ingredient? Sure, but I can't speak for how it is going to taste since I make it as the recipe below states.