And so is grassfed beef that has marinated in a great local stout beer for a day 🙂
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Slow Cooker Irish Stew
Irish cuisine to me is all about simple, nourishing ingredients that are super frugal. Cabbage and potatoes are always cost-effective menu ingredients.
Ingredients
- 2 lbs grassfed beef roast or beef stew meat
- 3 ish cups local stout beer or dark beer of your choosing
- 3 cloves smashed garlic
- 1 cup tapioca flour
or arrowroot - 2 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 4-5 medium carrots chopped
- ½ head medium cabbage sliced
- 2 onions chopped
- 30 oz organic diced tomatoes 2 cans
- 5 small yellow potatoes chopped
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 2 cups of the reserved beer marinade from above
- 2-3 cups beef bone broth chicken bone broth would work too
- Sea salt/pepper to taste
or 
Instructions
- The day before you want to make the stew, combine the cubed beef, beer, and smashed garlic in a gallon freezer bag, seal tight, and store in the fridge 12-24 hours to marinate the meat.
- The next day, combine the tapioca flour, sea salt, & pepper in a small mixing bowl.
- Strain out the meat from the marinade – BUT DON’T THROW OUT THE BEER/MARINADE.
- Coat the meat in the arrowroot mixture and sear in a very hot fry pan coated with butter, tallow, or coconut oil. Just sear up the sides - it doesn't have to be cooked all the way through.
- Once the beef is done searing, add it to your large slow cooker along with the rest of the ingredients, including the marinade.
- Stir to combine and cook on low for 8 hours.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Leftovers can be stored in the fridge, packed in the school lunch thermos or travel crockpot for work, and/or frozen for dinner another time!
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Let me know if you give this one a try! Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Making stews is one of my favorite ways to save money on Real food 🙂 This one looks delicious, can’t wait to try it!
This sounds delicious! Such a lovely comfort food for this time of year.
This sounds really delicious! Do you think I can make it on the stovetop? I don’t have a slow cooker.. 🙁
Hi Krystal! Oh YES you can! I do it that way often! YOu can slow cook down almost braise that cabbage 😉 Yum!
I plan to make it in the oven, probably better with heat surrounding it than just on the stove.
Mmm…love this. It has all of my favorite things.
Love that the meat marinates in stout first. That sounds amazing!
As an American of Irish decent, I approve;) Beautiful stew!
OH my – that just totally makes my day Linda! Thank you!
Lordy, sign me up for this!
Looks delicious! I love stews.
This may be a dumb question, but what is done with the marinade. It says to save it, but do I add it to the croc pot with everything else?
Hi John! Not a dumb question! I updated the recipe to reflect that you add it in with the rest of the ingredients to the slow cooker 🙂 I hope that helps!
Hi,
Instead of the beer is there anything else it can marinade in? Never cooked with beer or wine before and as my son will be eating not sure whether it’s a good idea
Hi Hayley! Yes sure! You can just use some bone broth 🙂
Is there a sub for the beer. I must stay 100% gluten free and even GF beers have other grains than can be problematic.
Hi Ruth! Sure! Just use beef bone broth. If you can consume wine a good red wine would be great too.
I look forward to making this in honor of St. Patrick’s day this weekend. How many does this recipe serve?
Hi Kristin! This feeds my family of 5 (2 adults 3 small children) for a few meals – I think it would comfortably feed 8.
This looks great. And I love the excuse to try a new local beer!
So beautiful I came back for a second look!
I really need to come over for dinner! 😉 Instead I’ll have to be satisfied with buying my own roast to make it.
Oh yum! I just made beef stew the other day too! This looks so hearty!
This is such a lovely soup for this time of year! So cozy and festive.
Mmm, with that biscuit and thickened with arrowroot- so yum!