Healthy Slow Cooker Beef Stew | Easy Slow Cooker Recipe | A Sweet Pea Chef

beef

🥗Healthier: lean cuts of beef

💰Cheaper: pork

Pork is often less expensive and can be a leaner option.

potatoes

🥗Healthier: sweet potatoes

💰Cheaper: white potatoes

Sweet potatoes are more nutritious.

In a large mixing bowl, add chickpea flour, sea salt, and ground pepper, and stir to combine.

Cut chuck roast into about one inch cubes.

Add the cubed meat to the chickpea flour mixture and toss to coat well.

In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium-high heat and add the coated meat.

Brown the meat until it has a nice golden coating, then transfer it into the slow cooker.

In the same pan, add diced yellow onion to pick up the tasty bits in the pan.

Add minced garlic and cook until fragrant, then transfer to the slow cooker on top of the meat.

Add balsamic vinegar, tomato paste, low-sodium beef broth, dried thyme, sea salt, dried rosemary, cubed Yukon Gold potatoes, cubed sweet potato, sliced carrots, and sliced celery to the slow cooker and stir to combine.

Add one bay leaf to the slow cooker.

Cover the slow cooker and set to low for about six to seven hours or high for about three to four hours, stirring halfway through.

If the stew is not thick enough, combine arrowroot starch with beef broth or juices from the stew, mix, and add to the stew to thicken.

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