Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, easy beef stew for two. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pat beef dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper. Heat oil in medium ovensafe saucepan over medium-high heat until just smoking. Season the beef on both sides with salt and pepper.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have easy beef stew for two using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:

1. Get 1-2 lbs well marbled beef chuck shoulder, in 2" in chunks
2. Get Salt & pepper to season
3. Prepare 3 tablespoons olive oil
4. Take 1 yellow onion, largely diced
5. Take 3 cloves garlic, rough chopped
6. Make ready 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
7. Make ready 1 tablespoon tomato paste
8. Prepare Handful flour
9. Make ready 3 cups beef broth
10. Take 1 bay leave
11. Prepare 1 teaspoon dried time
12. Take Couple dashes of Worcestershire sauce
13. Get 4-6 carrots, cut into 1" medallions
14. Get 4-6 celery stalks,cut 1" pieces
15. Take 1 large potato, skinned and cut into 1" pieces
16. Make ready 1 (14.5 oz) can stewed tomatoes with juices
17. Take 1/4 cup chopped parsley

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Instructions to make Easy Beef Stew for Two:

1. Trim any large fat caps off your meat and cube meat into large bites, season liberally with salt and pepper. Set aside. The salt will encourage natural sugars to come to meats surface for better browning.
2. In a large stock pot, heat a tablespoon of olive oil on med high heat until nearly smoking
3. In three batches, pat meat dry and drop into hot pan and sear each side a couple minutes to get a dark brown crust. Do not crowd all the meat into the pan or it will simply steam. Add more oil for each batch. Set browned meat aside.
4. Add onion, then garlic to the pan and saute a couple minutes. Add balsamic and tomato paste and stir a minute longer. Scrape any bits from bottom of pan.
5. Add meat to back to the pan and dust liberally with flour. Stir to cook flour 2 minutes.
6. Add broth, bay leaf, thyme, and Worcestershire. Reduce heat to low.
7. Add vegetables and can tomatoes with juices. Stir and cover.
8. Cook on a low simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally until meat is fork tender. Add parsley at the finish.
9. Add more broth if needed or to thicken mix one tablespoon of flour with a little broth and add to pot and continue cooking.
10. Check at the end for needed salt or pepper. Remove bay leaf before serving.

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