Crock Pot Spanish Stew Food

SPANISH BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees and toss beef cubes with flour salt and pepper.
• Heat oil in large dutch oven on high heat and cook the beef on all sides until well browned then remove from the pan.
• Lower heat to medium, add in the onions and cook until translucent, about 5-6 minutes.
• Add in the carrots, bell pepper and garlic and stir well.
• Add in the paprika, oregano, bay leaves, died tomatoes, crushed tomato, tomato paste and the beef and stir well.
• Cook, covered in the oven, 2 to 2 1/2 hours.
• Remove from the oven, add peas and olives and stir well.
• Place back in the oven for 15 minutes.
• Remove from oven. Stir and serve.

HOT MULLED WINE

Steps:

• Place cinnamon sticks, cloves and rosemary on a double thickness of cheesecloth; bring up corners of cloth and tie with string to form a bag., In a 1-1/2-qt. slow cooker, combine the wine, cranberries, sugar, bourbon, orange juice and zest. Add spice bag. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until heated through. Discard spice bag. Serve warm.

CROCK POT SPANISH INSPIRED BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Prep all vegetables: onions, garlic, carrots, potatoes and turnips. Set aside.
• Trim meat of all visible fat and cut into 1 inch cubes.
• Season meat with kosher salt and pepper.
• Dredge meat in flour shaking all excess flour off. I use a plastic baggy to do this and make less of a mess.
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet on medium high heat.
• Once the oil is hot enough add meat and brown on all sides. You may have to do this in batches depending on the size of your skillet.You do not want to cook the meat all the way through, just brown the meat.
• Remove meat from skillet and set aside.
• Add dry sherry to the pan picking up any of the browned pieces and reducing the liquid to one half.
• Add the beef broth. Allow the liquid to come to a boil an simmer for about 3 minutes.
• Turn heat off and add tomatoes paste and whisk until the liquid is smooth.
• Add smoked paprika and stir so it's completely incorporated into the tomato/broth mixture.
• Add onions,garlic, turnips, potatoes, carrots and meat to the crockpot.
• Pour tomato broth over the meat and vegetables.
• Add thyme and parsley sprigs and mix through the stew.
• Set crockpot on low and cook for 8-9 hours or until meat is very tender.
• Add salt and pepper to taste, if needed, when the stew is done.