Beef Stew

By Claude

I use a pressure cooker for this–takes 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 pound stew beef cut into bite size pieces.
• 1 15 oz can tomato sauce
• 2 cans of water (32 oz)
• 1 package of beef stew seasoning mix (McCormick)
• 8-12 oz frozen corn
• 8-12 oz frozen green beans (french cut)
• 8-12 oz of baby carrots (scraped and pealed)
• 1/2 cup flour
• 3 tablespoons of crisco
• 1 bay leaf
• salt and pepper to taste

Details

Servings 6
Preparation time 30mins
Cooking time 45mins

Preparation

Step 1

Cut stew meat in to bite size.
Put flour in plastic bag with salt and pepper. Add meat to the flour and shake bag to coat.

Put Crisco in the pressure cooker on high heat until melted and Crisco is hot. Remove meat from flour bag, by picking meat out of the flour and put in pressure cooker. (To much flour will make stew to thick.) Brown meat on all sides.

Next add tomato sauce, water, bay leaf, corn, green beans, carrots, and seasoning mix. Stir well to desolve seasoning mix.

(Follow Pressure Cooker directions.)
Bring stew to a slow boil. Put top on pressure cooker. When the air vent seats itself and steam comes from the vent pipe, at a slow steady stream, put Pressure Regulator on the vent pipe.

Cook for 15 minutes.

Turn off heat and remove pot from the stove, to the sink. Run cold water over the pot. (Do Not remove the Pressure Regulator yet.) Be careful not to let water run over the air vent or water will be added to the stew.

As the Pressure Cooker cools, the air vent will unseat itself. Then the Pressure Regulator may be removed.

Put pot back on stove, remove the Pressure Cooker top and stir beef stew well. Remove the bay leaf.

Serve