How To Make Onion Beef Stew In A Slow Cooker

beef stew with onion sauce

This onion beef stew recipe uses just 2 ingredients – beef and onions!  When the onions are cooked for a long time with the beef in a slow cooker, they turn into an onion sauce.  You get super-tender beef that melts in your mouth and a delicious onion sauce that you can dunk your bread into!

This onion beef stew is a true slow cooker recipe – all you need is a slow cooker and no other kind of cooking (such as frying pan or oven) is necessary.  Many slow cooker beef stew recipes ask you to brown meat in a frying pan before transferring it to slow cooker – well, not this one.  Making this onion beef stew is as easy as putting cut-up beef and chopped onions directly in a slow cooker and pressing the “Start” button.  There is no excuse on not making this onion beef stew – it’s the easiest and laziest main dish possible :)

Onion Beef Stew Recipe

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs cut-up beef (labeled “beef stew” in a supermarket)
  • 8 onions, chopped
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp pepper

Instructions How To Make Onion Beef Stew

  1. Put beef and onions and in a slow cooker. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  2. Toss beef and onions so it’s all combined.
  3. Set the slow cooker on either 4 hours on “High” or 8 hours on “Low”.
  4. Press the “Start” button on the slow cooker :)

Number of servings: 6

Here’s a picture of slow cooker onion beef stew served with make ahead mashed potatoes:

onion beef stew with mashed potatoes

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