5-Hour Beef Stew

In this beef stew, tapioca is used as a thickener to make it extra rich and delicious as it cooks low and slow in your oven for a total of five hours.

• Preparation Time: 25 mins
• Cooking Time: 5 hr
• Total Time: 5 hr 25 mins
• Calories: 399 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1 onion, diced
• 1 cup diced celery
• 3 tablespoons tapioca
• 8 potatoes, peeled and diced
• 3 cups diced carrots
• 2 pounds beef tenderloin steaks, diced
• 4 (12 ounce) cans tomato-vegetable juice cocktail (such as V8®)

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).

Step 2

Place beef into a roasting pan. Stir in potatoes, tomato-vegetable juice cocktail, carrots, celery, onion, tapioca, sugar, salt, and pepper. Cover the pan.

Step 3

Bake in the preheated oven until beef and potatoes are tender, about 5 hours.