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Potatoes with beef and carrots in a slow cooker

Braised Potatoes with Beef and Carrots in a Slow Cooker

A really delicious homey dish that everyone will love! The smell of braised potatoes and meat always takes me back to childhood — it's such comforting, home-style cooking. Since a slow cooker arrived in my kitchen, I make it more often; it comes out just as tasty as I remember, and it's far easier to cook.

nasstin

Recipe author

Potatoes with beef and carrots in a slow cooker

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Potatoes

Beef

600

Vegetable oil (I use beef fat instead of oil)

Carrots

150

Onion

130

Tomato juice

0.5

Garlic

Basil (dried)

Ground pepper blend

Ground black pepper

Table salt

Water (hot)

0.8

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 38 % 6 g

Fats 19 % 3 g

Carbohydrates 44 % 7 g

77 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Step 1:

The ingredients you'll need.
Step 2:

Set the cooker to the "Bake" program and let it heat up. Mine runs a minimum of 45 minutes, but we only need about 30, so you'll shut it off manually.
Step 3:

If your piece of beef has fat on it like mine, trim it off and chop it finely.
Step 4:

Render the fat in the slow cooker until it turns to cracklings. If your beef is lean, use 1–2 tablespoons of vegetable oil instead.
Step 5:

Meanwhile, cut the beef into cubes.
Step 6:

Finely chop the onion.
Step 7:

Transfer the meat to the slow-cooker bowl with the cracklings.
Step 8:

Fry the beef on this setting for 10 minutes.
Step 9:

Grate the carrots. Today I used a fine grater so the carrot would melt right into the finished dish.
Step 10:

Add the onion and carrot to the browned beef, stir, and let it go for another 10 minutes.
Step 11:

Then pour in about 1 cup of hot water, enough to cover the meat.
Step 12:

Set the "Stew" program for 1 hour and go about your business — let the slow cooker do the work.
Step 13:

When the timer beeps, pour in the tomato juice, and if there's not much liquid left, a little more water.
Step 14:

Set the "Stew" program again for 30 minutes. You could set it for 1½ hours up front, of course, but this way I know I won't miss the right moment — the cooker beeps and shuts off.
Step 15:

About 10 minutes before the program ends, cut the potatoes (peeled and well washed by now) into cubes.
Step 16:

When the end-of-program signal sounds, add the potatoes to the bowl.
Step 17:

Press a clove of garlic through a garlic press.
Step 18:

Add a little of the pepper blend.
Step 19:

Then some freshly ground black pepper.
Step 20:

Add salt.
Step 21:

Add a pinch of basil or any other spices you like, to taste.
Step 22:

Pour in hot water to cover the potatoes.
Step 23:

Stir.
Step 24:

Set the "Stew" program for 50 minutes.
Step 25:

When the time is up, our homey braised potatoes with beef are ready.
Step 26:

Serve with fresh herbs and a vegetable salad — mine is a red cabbage salad.
Step 27:

Enjoy!