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Must try this fancy crock pot beef recipe

Crock Pot Fancy Beef for Two

Course Main Course
Crock Pot Fancy Beef for two or more. This is a recipe every home cook needs. So delicious and it can be made in small amounts or increased.

Ingredients 

  • 1-2 TBS Vegetable Oil
  • 1/2 Onion chopped
  • 2 C Baby Carrots
  • 2 Stalks Celery chopped
  • 1 TBS Garlic minced
  • 3 Sprigs Thyme
  • 1/2 C Red Wine
  • 1 C Broth I used chicken since that’s what I have on hand
  • 4 oz Tomato Sauce don’t tell but I used 1 packet boboli pizza sauce since I keep forgetting I have them and need to use them up, but regular tomato sauce should be fine.
  • 1 TBS Brown Sugar
  • 1 TBS Soy Sauce
  • 2 Bay leaves
  • 0.75 lbs piece of Beef Chuck Roast cut into two pieces
  • 1-2 TBS Flour
  • Salt and Pepper

Instructions

  • Saute onions, celery, and carrots until onions are transparent in vegetable oil.
  • Add in garlic and time and cook for a few minutes. Scoop out and place into the bottom of the crock pot.
  • Season the beef with salt and pepper.
  • Season the flour with salt and pepper and dredge the beef in the flour.
  • In the same pan that you cooked the veggies brown the all sides of the beef and then place on the veggies in the crock pot.
  • Add wine to the pan to deglaze and reduce the wine by half.
  • Add in tomato sauce, brown sugar, soy sauce, and bay leaves.
  • Stir and pour over the beef in the crock pot.
  • Cook on low 8 hours or on high for 4 hours.

Notes

Instant Pot Directions
  1. Turn the Instant pot to saute and heat up vegetable oil.
  2. Season the beef with salt and pepper.
  3. Season the flour with salt and pepper and dredge the beef in the flour.
  4. Brown beef on all sides and remove from pot.
  5. Add in wine and cook for a few minutes and deglaze any bits that have stuck to the bottom of the pot.
  6. Press cancel to turn off sauté mode. Add in broth, soy sauce, onions, celery and bay leaf.
  7. Next add in beef. Top with garlic, brown sugar and tomato sauce. DO NOT STIR. You want the brown sugar and tomato sauce on the top.
  8. Cook on high for 40 minutes. Natural release for at least 15 minutes.
  9. After fully releasing the pressure remove the beef and set aside. Add in the carrots and cook for 1 minute.
  10. If needed thicken with a corn starch slurry.
  11. Turn the Instant pot to saute and heat up vegetable oil.
  12. Season the beef with salt and pepper.
  13. Season the flour with salt and pepper and dredge the beef in the flour.
  14. Brown beef on all sides and remove from pot.
  15. Add in wine and cook for a few minutes and deglaze any bits that have stuck to the bottom of the pot.
  16. Press cancel to turn off sauté mode. Add in broth, soy sauce, onions, celery and bay leaf.
  17. Next add in beef. Top with garlic, brown sugar and tomato sauce. DO NOT STIR. You want the brown sugar and tomato sauce on the top.
  18. Cook on high for 40 minutes. Natural release for at least 15 minutes.
  19. After fully releasing the pressure remove the beef and set aside. Add in the carrots and cook for 1 minute.
  20. If needed thicken with a corn starch slurry.

Nutrition

Calories: 484kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 37g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 10g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 120mg | Sodium: 1454mg | Potassium: 1241mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 18019IU | Vitamin C: 13mg | Calcium: 117mg | Iron: 6mg
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