📋 Old Fashioned Slow Cooker Beef Stew Recipe (with whiskey)

slow cooker beef stew in a blue bowl with slow cooker in the background

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📋 Old Fashioned Slow Cooker Beef Stew Recipe (with whiskey)

Make this amazing Old Fashioned Slow Cooker Beef Stew with all the tips I gathered from the pros at the Bar U Ranch Chuckwagon Stew Cook-off! This hearty beef stew is made with whiskey, potatoes, carrots, celery, mushrooms, and fresh herbs. It's also gluten-free, dairy-free and Weight Watchers friendly!

Course Main Course

Cuisine North American

Keyword beef stew, old fashioned, slow cooker, whiskey

Special Diet Gluten-free

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 6

Total Time 6 20

Servings people

Calories 218kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Equipment

slow cooker

Ingredients

1 ½ pounds beef stew meat ,cut into 1 inch cubes *Make sure you use stewing meat or the beef chunks will not stay together and you will end up with more of a shredded beef
1 teaspoon each salt and pepper, as needed approximately- add more or less as desired
1 ½ tablespoon fresh sage
1 ½ tablespoon fresh oregano
¾ tablespoon fresh rosemary
2 bay leaves
6 fresh mushrooms large, chopped- about 1 ½ cups
3 celery stalks , chopped about ½ cup
1 onion large, chopped
4 carrots , chopped, about 2 cups
⅓ cup okra
4 potatoes large, chopped
½ cup whiskey Jack Daniels (gluten -free)
4.5 cups beef stock
1 ½ tablespoon gluten-free worcestershire sauce
4 tablespoon cornstarch
5 teaspoon water

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Sprinkle salt and pepper over meat, then sear beef on all sides in heated non-stick skillet/frying pan over high heat. *Do not cook through (this step is important to seal in the flavor of the beef and helps the hold the meat together).
Spray a 6 qt slow cooker/crock pot with non-stick cooking spray, then add meat, chopped vegetables, bay leaf and herbs. Stir together.
Add beef stock, whiskey and Worcestershire sauce together and pour mixture over beef, potatoes, vegetables and herb mixture. .
Cover, and cook on low setting for 8 hours. ** if you are in a hurry, you can cook on high setting for 4 to 6 hours. *However, the low and slow method is the very best!
When cooking time is almost complete (20-30 minutes left), mix the cornstarch and water into a paste (roux) and stir into the stew. *You can use equal amounts of flour and oil if you don't need the stew to be gluten-free.
Allow it to continue to cook for the remainder of the time or until desired thickness is reached. If the stew is not as thick as you could like, add more roux.
Serve warm with biscuits, buns or 0 WW point Everything Bagel Cloud Bread.

Notes

*See post contents for important information and recipe tips!

*NOTE: This recipe is for a minimum 6 Qt. crock pot/slow cooker

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