Sweet potatoes, butternut squash and corn make this Spiced Beef Stew with Sweet Potatoes a delicious change of pace from your every day stew! Post may contain affiliate links.
Slow Cooker Spiced Beef Stew with Sweet Potatoes
My favorite recipes for the slow cooker are almost always soups, stews or slow braises. This is where the slow cooker (or crockpot) really shines. Ingredients that are meant to spend hours together co-mingling their flavors. It’s where you can take a roast, potatoes, carrots, celery, and onions and with a few seasonings turn out some of the best comfort food. You don’t need to fancy it up. It’s just good.
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When Earth Fare had chuck roast on sale, I knew I wanted to make either a pot roast, a soup or a stew. My CSA had been giving me loads of golden orange sweet potatoes and butternut squash, so something using up those ingredients would be good. No need to go buy potatoes, celery and carrots for a basic stew, when I had the ingredients for a not-basic stew.
A little searching turned up Spiced Beef Stew with Sweet Potatoes from Southern Living. Wow! This was everything I hoped it would be. It was rich and meaty (don’t skip browning the meat first) and sweet from the sweet potatoes, butternut squash and corn. The only thing I changed on the recipe was that I used some of the beef broth to deglaze the pan after browning the meat and poured all those juicy browned bits into the slow cooker. I am so surprised they left that step out! If you are going to go through the trouble to brown your meat, you don’t want to waste any of that browned goodness!
Some other favorite slow cooker comfort foods: Slow Cooker Chicken Parmesan Soup and Slow Cooker Chicken and Stout Stew.
Slow Cooker Spiced Beef Stew with Sweet Potatoes
This Slow Cooker Spiced Beef Stew with Sweet Potatoes is warm and comforting and so easy in the slow cooker.
Ingredients
- 6 oz can tomato paste
- 32 oz beef broth
- 3 lb boneless chuck roast trimmed, cut in 1 1/2 inch cubes
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 pounds small sweet potatoes peeled and cubed
- 2 sweet onions cut into eighths
- 2 cups cubed butternut squash about 1 lb.
- 2 cups frozen whole kernel corn thawed
- 2 celery ribs sliced
- 4 garlic cloves minced
- 2 teaspoons ancho chile powder
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
Instructions
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Reserve a 1/2 cup of the beef broth and whisk together the remaining broth with the tomato paste.
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Put the flour salt and pepper in a ziplock bag and add the beef. Toss to coat well.
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Brown the beef in batches in a large skillet over medium high heat, about 10 minutes. You want to get a nice brown crust on the beef. Remove beef from skillet and add to 6 quart slow cooker. Pour the reserved 1/2 cup of beef broth into the skillet and scrape up the brown bits, pour that into the slow cooker. Add the rest of the ingredients and cook on high for 6 hours.
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This looks and sounds absolutely wonderful! It has some elements of an African maffe and I bet it is delicious!
I have to go look up what an African maffe is!
The sweet potatoes have my attention, what a good hearty stew for cold weather.
The sweet potatoes are a nice touch!
This looks so good. Great comfort food when it’s so cold outside.
Have a fabulous day. ♥
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Miz Helen
Yum, this looks so hearty and comforting for this winter, can’t wait to give it a go! Thanks for Linking up with us at #TryABiteTuesday! Come join in again this week, the link up is open!
Hi Pam,
Your Spiced Beef Stew with Sweet Potatoes looks delicious, I can’t wait to taste it! Hope you are having a great day and thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
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Miz Helen
This is definitely no ordinary stew! Love all the layers of flavour and that it is slow cooker friendly. Stumbled and shared. Thank you for bringing your delicious Spiced Beef Stew to the Hearth and Soul Hop, Pam!
Pinned!
That’s true. The browned bits add so much flavor. GREG
Looks really delicious – and I agree, why waste all that precious flavour! Even when cooking a steak I will deglaze with a bit of water (or wine) and pour over for extra taste and juiciness. Yum.