When the weather starts to get cold, the first recipe I love to make is my dutch oven beef stew. This beef stew is cooked in a Dutch oven until tender then carrots and potatoes are added to the stew at the end to round it off. This all-day beef stew recipe (almost all day) not only tastes amazing because of the beef stew seasoning, and it's so easy to make. This beef stew just warms you up on a cold winter's day.
This beef stew is one that I have been cooking for my family for years and it is always loved. It is one of my absolute favorite Dutch oven recipe and a family tradition.
This easy beef stew is so full of flavor because the meat is browned on the stove first with some really amazing spices (my favorite beef stew seasoning that was given to my family many years ago!). The beef stew is then slow-cooked in a Dutch oven (which is made of cast iron) which gives it a much richer and deeper flavor than you would get with a slow cooker.
I even like to entertain at the holidays with this recipe because who doesn't love a hearty and delicious beef stew when the weather starts to cool.
An oven-roasted stew may seem like a lot but most of the cooking time is the beef stew slowly cooking in the oven. Once you try out this recipe, you will see that it is worth every bit of effort and that it has been a loved family recipe of ours for so long.