60 EASY Recipes with Stew Meat

If you’re looking for comfort food to the max we are sharing 60 EASY Recipes with Stew Meat the whole family will love.

Stew beef can tickle the taste buds, but can also be tricky to cook with.

These cuts of beef can have tough connective tissue that needs to break down for mouth tender morsels.

Tips for cooking Beef Stew Meat Recipes

You can achieve fork tender results with inexpensive stew meat with a few tips and tricks!

For a rich flavor, start by browning your stew meat for a couple of minutes. Add a little olive oil to your pan over medium-high heat and allow each side to brown.
Don’t overcrowd the pan when browning! Scrape up all of those brown bits for the most flavorful beef stew meat!
To ensure connective tissue breaks down, try cooking using instant pot recipes or slow cooking. These cooking methods cook with moisture and will allow connective tissues to dissolve resulting in tender meat!
Try a powdered tenderizer for extra tender beef.
Marinating your beef in beef broth or red wine is a great way to make inexpensive cuts of meat extra tender.

Cooking with these tender chunks of beef will give you a comforting meal that will be a big hit with your family! Each of these recipe ideas uses simple ingredients you can find at your grocery store.

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Slow Cooker Beef Stew Recipe

4 from 1 vote

DELICIOUS AND HEARTY BEEF STEW MADE IN YOUR SLOW COOKER SO IT SIMMERS ALL DAY!

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Instant Pot Beef Stew Recipe

5 from 2 votes

This dump-and-go beef stew will become one of your favorites! Full of flavor and so easy to make!

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SLOW COOKER BEEF AND SWEET POTATO STEW RECIPE

This Slow Cooker Beef and Sweet Potato Stew is simple and delicious. It only requires a few simple ingredients and tastes absolutely amazing.

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The Best Slow Cooker Beef Stew Recipe

5 from 3 votes

One of the easiest recipes I have ever made – and it's super hearty and filling! This also can be made into a freezer meal and is so nice to pull out of the freezer on a day when you don't have time to cook.

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Slow Cooker Busy Day Stew

his was one of easiest crock pot meals I have ever made. It took under 10 minutes to chop everything and throw it in the slow cooker

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Instant Pot Chili Beef Burritos Recipe

5 from 1 vote

These Instant Pot Chili Beef Burritos are stuffed with tender, flavorful meat and topped with a tasty sauce.

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Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff Recipe (Dump and Go)

4.67 from 3 votes

Creamy beef pasta with savory mushrooms all made right in the Instant Pot! This Instant Pot beef stroganoff recipe is one of the best dump and go recipes you can make during the week!

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Slow Cooker Beef Sirloin Tips and Gravy Recipe

5 from 5 votes

After simmering in your slow cooker all day, the beef tips literally fall apart when you touch them! Serve over mashed potatoes for a perfect and hearty meal.

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Instant Pot Chile Colorado Beef Burritos Recipe

5 from 1 vote

These Instant Pot Chile Colorado Beef Burritos come together so quickly! The meat inside of these burritos is packed with flavor!

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Slow Cooker Chile Colorado Beef Burritos Recipe

Beef, enchilada sauce, chiles, and spices get dumped together in the slow cooker to make an amazing dish the whole family will love!

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Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff Recipe

If you have never tried Beef Stroganoff, then this is the recipe for you! It is so easy to make in your Slow Cooker or in your Instant Pot!

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Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff Soup Recipe

Make a fun spin off recipe with this Instant Pot beef stroganoff soup! It has all the creaminess and beef you’d expect from beef stroganoff, but made in the form of Instant Pot soup.

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sirloin beef tips made in the Instant Pot served with potatoes and green beans

Instant Pot Beef Tips and Gravy

5 from 5 votes

Full of flavor and so easy to make in your Instant Pot – Beef Tips and Gravy is perfect comfort food for family dinner!

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Slow Cooker Beef Tips and Rice Recipe

4.50 from 2 votes

One of our most popular recipes and SO easy to make! Did we mention how yummy your house will smell!? Absolutely amazing.

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Slow Cooker Beef Stew

This easy slow cooker beef stew recipe made with potatoes, carrots, celery, broth, herbs, and spices is hearty and comforting.

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Stewed Beef (Beef Tips) with Gravy

A tried-and-true family recipe for stew beef or beef tips slow-cooked until tender with a rich gravy served over rice or noodles.

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Slow Cooker Beef Stew

This traditional Beef Stew is the best Slow Cooker recipe for Fall and Winter. It’s loaded with tender bites of juicy beef, golden potatoes, carrots, peas, red wine, onions, garlic, and a hearty beef broth.

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Slow-Cooker Mongolian Beef

Here’s something that should make every home cook happy: There’s tons of flavor in less expensive cuts of meat. The trick is to treat those cheap cuts right, as is done in this recipe, where beef stew meat is browned in a skillet and left to finish off over low heat in the slow cooker.

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Easy Stovetop Beef Stew

The easy Beef Stew is hearty, comforting and made in one pot. Full of tender flavorful beef and requires minimal prep, it makes for a delicious family meal!

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Beef Stew Recipe

This beef strew recipe is comfort food heaven! Tender beef is simmered in beef broth with carrots, onions, celery, peas, and carrots until tender.

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Beef Stew Slow Cooker Recipe – Food Lovin Family

Slow Cooker Beef Stew is hearty, warm and the ultimate comfort food. Beef, potatoes and veggies cooked in a savory beef broth.

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Easy Hungarian Goulash – Baking Mischief

Hungarian goulash is the ultimate stick-to-your-bones comfort food. Beef chuck simmered with onions and tomatoes until tender and mixed with sour cream for an ultra-creamy and rich stew you can serve over noodles, potatoes, or spaetzle.

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Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff

Make this traditional Beef Stroganoff in the Slow Cooker with the best combination of ingredients that add so much flavor. My version is extra creamy with lots of ways to thicken it up, including my

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Beef Bourguignon Recipe

Classic French Beef Bourguignon is a slow cooked beef stew with tender meat, a recipe everyone needs to learn how to cook.

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Instant Pot Vegetable Beef Soup – Savory Tooth

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Irish Beef and Guinness Stew

Irish Beef and Guinness Stew is arguably the king of all stews!!! The Guinness gives the sauce an incredible earthiness and depth of flavour, it does not taste of beer at all. Must try!

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Slow Cooker Beef Coconut Curry

A luscious mild curry with fall-apart beef and bell peppers. We let this easy beef curry cook slowly in the slow cooker. Just a little up-front prep, then you can leave it to cook to perfection.

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Carne Guisada Recipe

This Mexican style carne guisada is beef that is stewed with tomatoes, peppers and spices until it becomes tender and flavorful.

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Beef Tips

This delicious beef tips recipe uses cubes of beef, simmered in a savory, meaty gravy. It’s classic comfort food that’s ideal to make ahead of time.

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Slow Cooker Korean Beef

Slow Cooker Korean Beef is an easy crock pot dinner recipe that makes tender, sweet and spicy slow cooker beef. Great roast recipe!

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Jamaican Style Jerk Beef Stew

Jamaican Style Jerk Beef Stew Recipe : Slow cooked Jamaican style, melt in your mouth, jerk beef stew that is just packed with flavour!

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Texas Roadhouse Chili Recipe

Delicious copycat Texas Roadhouse Chili. Hearty, thick chili that tastes like the restaurant classic meal.

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Italian Beef Stew

This savory Italian Beef Stew recipe makes a delicious, satisfying stew with a rich tomato gravy and meat that just melts in your mouth!

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Instant Pot Beef Tips Recipe

Easy and insanely tasty Instant Pot Beef Tips are perfectly tender and savory, served over mashed potatoes, rice, or egg noodles.

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Instant Pot Beef Rice Pilaf (Plov)

Instant Pot Beef Rice Pilaf or Plov is a hearty one-pot meal that’s very easy to make and super delicious. The rice is well infused with the flavor of beef and spices and makes the best rice you will ever have!

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Barbeque Beef Bites

An easy game day favourite; Barbeque Beef Bites are deliciously simple to make and smothered in a sweet, spicy, thick, homemade barbeque sauce. As far as appetizers go, you’ll be the winner; hands down!

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Drunken Slow Cooker Beef Stew (Beef Carbonnade)

This slow cooker beef stew is made with Belgian beer and served over buttery egg noodles or mashed potatoes! The ultimate comfort food!

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Wild Mushroom and Beef Stew

Fragrant mushrooms and tender meat are combined with fresh herbs to give this classic beef stew a gourmet twist.

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Crockpot Beef and Broccoli Recipe – Tammilee Tips

Easy Slow Cooker Crock Pot Beef and Broccoli Recipe with Snow Peas! This slow cooker Asian-inspired recipe is easy to make

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Mulligan Stew

Mulligan stew is a family friendly easy stew made with tender stew meat, potatoes, corn, carrots, peas, green beans and a perfect blend of Italian spices.

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Beef Vindaloo

Restaurant-quality beef vindaloo made right in your own kitchen delivers all the flavor and kick you expect from your favorite take-out dish.

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Mexican Birria Recipe

This birria recipe is an iconic meat stew from the Mexican state of Jalisco of lamb, goat or beef cooked low and slow in a seasoned chili sauce.

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Slow Cooker Beef and Ale Stew

Slow Cooker Beef and Ale Stew – tender beef and vegetables in a rich flavorful gravy. This easy stew is sure to become your fave comfort food!

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Epic Chunky Beef and Mushroom Pie

An EPIC Chunky Beef and Mushroom Pie – ultra tender pieces of beef and mushrooms with an incredible gravy. Prepare to swoon!

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Chile Colorado

Flavorful Chile Colorado Beef Stew simmered in a Mexican style red chile sauce until fall-apart tender. This Chile Colorado recipe can be made in the oven, stove top, Instant Pot or Crock Pot.

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Slow Cooker Smothered Beef Burritos

This Slow Cooker Smothered Beef Burritos Recipe is better than take out!

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Simple and Savory Tuscan Beef Stew – foodiecrush.com

Rich and savory, this simple Tuscan beef stew gets its flavor from plenty of black pepper, dry red wine, and a hands-off braise in the oven.

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Easy Stew Beef and Rice Recipe

Comfort food doesn’t get any better than this easy Stew Beef and Rice Recipe made with onions, peppers, garlic, and oregano slowly cooked with beef.

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Tender Slow Cooker Beef Tips and Gravy!

Tender slow cooker beef tips are great on top of mashed potatoes or rice. Throw beef stew meat and gravy in a Crockpot in the morning and dinner is done.

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Old-Fashioned Beef Stew

This old-fashioned beef stew recipe is the perfect dish for chilly nights! Learn how to make it, plus get tips for cooking the best beef stew.

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Quick and Easy Korean Beef

Instant Pot Korean Beef is a simple dish that’s packed with Asian flavors. Make this recipe for dinner tonight in under an hour!

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Beef Tips and Gravy (Stove Top or Crock Pot!)

Learn how easy it is to make Beef Tips and Gravy from scratch on the Stove Top or in the Crock Pot. These Sirloin tips are smothered in the most flavorful brown gravy and served

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Easy Beef and Noodles (Instant Pot, Slow Cooker, or Stove Top)

Only 5-ingredients are needed to make this classic, comforting, indulgent, and flavorful dinner recipe your entire family will love!

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Jamaican Beef Stew With Rice Recipe

Spicy-sweet jerk beef stew offers a sunny taste of the Caribbean, even when it’s cold outside.

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Beef Chili Recipe

Instead of using ground beef, try making this tasty chili with stew meat. Chili con carne is like a mixture between spicy chili and stew, the best of both worlds!

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Vegetable Beef Soup – Cooking Classy

A hearty veggie packed soup with chunks of tender beef. Perfect way to use up summer veggies or make on cold winter days.

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Instant Pot Vegetable Beef Soup

Instant Pot vegetable beef soup is a hearty and easy dinner that the whole family will love! Don’t worry, internet friends! If you don’t have an Instant Pot yet (Amazon affiliate), I’ve got you covered with

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