Crock Pot Beef Stew
This Crock Pot Beef Stew has hearty pieces of beef and vegetables slow-cooked in gravy. Serve with rolls and you’ll have one fantastic meal!
September is here and I could not be happier! Fall is quickly approaching so that means soup and stew season is almost here. Yay! I’m not sad at all to say goodbye to the crazy heat. Summer was fun but I’m ready for the holidays. 🙂
I can’t think of anything better than eating a warm bowl of Crock Pot Beef Stew on a chilly day. This Crock Pot Beef Stew is filled with hearty pieces of beef and vegetables slow cooked all day in the most delicious gravy.
It’s the perfect Sunday meal to make for your loved ones. I’ve been making this for years and love to serve it with our favorite rolls. It is beyond delicious! Every one in my family adores this meal, including the kiddos. 🙂
MORE CROCK POT RECIPES YOU MAY LIKE:
Crock Pot Taco Soup
Crock Pot Cheeseburger Soup
Crock Pot Beef and Broccoli
Crock Pot Shredded Beef Tacos
Crock Pot Beef Stew
Ingredients
- 2 packages (1 ounce, each) dry onion soup mix
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 2 pounds beef stew meat, or a boneless beef roast, cut in 1-inch pieces
- 5 medium potatoes peeled and diced
- 2 to 3 cups baby carrots
- 1 small yellow onion chopped
- 2 cans (10 ounces, each) cream of celery soup
- 1 cup ketchup *(you can substitute tomato sauce if you don't like ketchup)
Instructions
- In a large plastic bag, combine the dry onion soup mix and paprika. Add in meat and shake the bag to coat meat with the seasonings. (You may have to do that step in two batches, for all the meat to fit)
- Once meat is coated, spread out evenly into a greased 7 quart crock pot. Top meat evenly with the diced potatoes, carrots and onion.
- Mix the cream of celery soup and ketchup in a small bowl. Pour mixture over the meat and vegetables.
- Cover crock pot with lid. Cook on low heat for 7 to 8 hours or until meat is cooked through and vegetables are tender. Stir to combine everything then serve.
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I really like the idea of using the dry onion soup mixture as a rub for the meat. I will def have to try this.
***Highly Recommended*** I made this last night with positive comments all around, actually great comments and I have a family of harsh critics. I read the reviews and decided to reduce the tomato sauce/ketchup to 1/2 cup, I also added a couple of teaspoons of crushed garlic to the soup mix before adding to the slow cooker, plus 1 cup of frozen peas about an hour before serving. I used a small slow cooker with beef that must have come from an old cow, tough as! I ended up cooking it for 6 hours on high, it took that long for the contents to heat up and meat to become tender. Thank you for such a wonder slow cooker recipe that will be made over and over again.
I just made this. I was worried about the comments saying it would taste to much like ketchup, so I did 1/2 cup instead. It was absolutely delicious and all my family had seconds. I will be making again. I also used canned whole potatoes to cut on prep time. Thanks!!!
Hi holly I wold love to make ur stew but sadly we can’t get cream of celery soup in nz do u know what I can use instead that will still be yum?
So you say to cook for 8 hours on low, can you cook it for 4 hours on high…?
Do you think tomato past or tomato soup could replace the ketchup in this recipe?
I think others have tried it with tomato soup and it has worked for them. I personally love the ketchup. This is a favorite of ours! 🙂
This is THE recipe I’ve wanted! Absolutely delicious and super easy. I messed up by grabbing a can of cream of celery and a can of cream of chicken soup instead of 2 cream of celery soups but they worked fine. Deeeeeelish!!!
Can I use a Dutch oven for this?
Made this for dinner and it definitely needed to have a little water added to it.
just put everything in crock pot hope its good
Do you have a recommendation to add to it to help dilute the ketchup taste a bit? I have about two hours left on mine and it smells very ketchup-y.
Thanks in advance!
Sarah
I don’t notice the ketchup flavor being too strong, so I’ve only made it as written. We really love this stew! People have tried replacing the ketchup with tomato soup with good results so maybe try that next time. 🙂
May be a stupid question but you say to layer all the ingredients with the soup mix on top. Can I mix it or do I just leave it with the meat at the bottom???
Just leave the meat at the bottom. Stir everything after it’s finished cooking. 🙂
I’m making this for dinner tonight. I did not have cream of celery soup, so instead I’m using cream of mushroom. Also, I’m using tomato soup rather than ketchup… hopefully it still turns out delicious!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
What can I substitute the cream of celery soup with?
I thought this was great. However, instead of ketchup, I used a can of tomato soup and a half of a cup of low sodium beef broth. I will definitely be making this again!
Made this for dinner tonight and it was a hit!! I didn’t change a thing and it was so good. The whole family loved it! Thank you for sharing. Definetly will be making again!!!
I put the ingredients together tonight. Gonna put it on in the morning and timer is set.
Looking forward to tasting the stew
Just put this on! It’s really cool and rainy here in my part of Tennessee today. I’ve had this recipe on hand since September and thought today was the perfect day to try it! Can’t wait to taste it. Got it in a little late, though so I’m having to cook it on high for about 5-6 hrs! Luckily I’m home to keep a good eye on it. I’ll let you know what the family thinks!
Mine is in the crock pot now! Can’t wait to taste it! (Hope the Katsup doesn’t over ride the meaty hearty taste!). Added some celery and celery salt just in case! Loos so good Holly!
mine is looking to be too thick. can water or broth be added to cut the thickness?
I followed the instructions exactly and this stew was so delicious! I was really skeptical about the ketchup but all the flavors cook down and meld together. I cooked the stew for 7 hours on low and then the last hour on high because at the 7 hour mark my potatoes weren’t cooked as much as I would like but after an hour on high they were perfect!
We finally had some cool weather here in California so I made the beef stew last night for my adult son and his friend. They RAVED about it! None of us had a problem with the ketchup issue but we all like ketchup. I followed the recipe exactly except I added an entire bunch of celery cuz we love it. I have a 7 quart slow cooker and there was plenty of room. It was wonderful and the recipe has already been transcribed into my “keeper list”. Thanks for a great recipe! We’re having leftovers tonight!!! Yay!
This looks absolutely delicious!:) I was just wondering how it would work to cut the recipe in half? It’s only my husband and I so that would be a lot of leftovers!!
We loved this stew. On of the best I’ve ever made. Only had cream of mushroom soup. Did add and extra pound of beef, 2 bay leaves, a tsp. each of thyme and herbs de Provence, 1/3 c red wine & 3 cloves of minced fresh garlic. Will try with cream of celery next time.
cant wait to try this recipe