Crock Pot Spanish Stew Recipes

CROCK POT SPANISH-STYLE PORK STEW

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Chop the onion.
• Cut the pork shoulder into large chunks.
• Peel the potatoes and cut them into 1-inch pieces.
• Slice the bell pepper in half lengthwise; remove the stem end along with the seeds and ribs and then slice thinly.
• Heat the vegetable oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add the pork cubes and cook until well browned on all sides, turning frequently.
• Put the onion in the slow cooker . Top with the browned pork, cubed potatoes, and bell pepper.
• In a bowl, combine the tomatoes with the vinegar, garlic, chicken broth, and bay leaf. Pour over the pork.
• Cover the pot and cook the stew on low for 7 to 9 hours, or until the pork is tender. Taste and adjust seasonings with salt and pepper, as needed.

SLOW-COOKER BEEF STEW WITH YUCA

Steps:

• Place the beef in a 6- to 8-quart slow cooker. Season with salt and pepper. Arrange the yuca, squash and Cubanelle pepper around the beef in a single layer. Combine the tomato sauce, 1/2 cup water, the cilantro stems, garlic, oregano, 1/2 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of pepper in a small bowl. Pour all over the meat and vegetables. Cover and cook on low until the meat is tender and easy to pull apart, 8 hours.
• Meanwhile, thinly slice the red onion. Bring the vinegar, 1/2 cup water and 1/2 teaspoon salt to a boil in a small saucepan. Remove from the heat and stir in the red onion, submerging the slices. Let cool, then transfer to a bowl and refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Remove the meat to a plate and shred into bite-size chunks with 2 forks, discarding any large pieces of fat. Skim off any excess fat from the remaining stew in the slow cooker. Stir the meat back into the stew and season with salt and pepper. Divide among bowls. Top with the chopped cilantro leaves. Drain the pickled red onion and serve with the stew.

SLOW-COOKER BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Fry the onion and celery in 1 tbsp oil over a low heat until they start to soften - about 5 mins. Add the carrots, bay and thyme, fry for 2 mins, stir in the purée and Worcestershire sauce, add 600ml boiling water, stir and tip everything into a slow cooker. Crumble over the stock cubes or add the stock pots and stir, then season with pepper (don't add salt as the stock may be salty).
• Clean out the frying pan and fry the beef in the remaining oil in batches until it is well browned, then tip each batch into the slow cooker. Cook on low for 8-10 hrs, or on high for 4 hrs.
• If you want to thicken the gravy, mix the cornflour with a splash of cold water to make a paste, then stir in 2 tbsp of the liquid from the slow cooker. Tip back into the slow cooker, stir and cook for a further 30 mins on high. Stir in the parsley and season again to taste. Serve with mash, if you like. Leave to cool before freezing.

SLOW COOKER BEEF STEW I

Steps:

• Place meat in slow cooker. In a small bowl mix together the flour, salt, and pepper; pour over meat, and stir to coat meat with flour mixture. Stir in the garlic, bay leaf, paprika, Worcestershire sauce, onion, beef broth, potatoes, carrots, and celery.
• Cover, and cook on Low setting for 10 to 12 hours, or on High setting for 4 to 6 hours.

SLOW-COOKED PORK STEW

Steps:

• Sprinkle pork with salt and pepper; transfer to a 4-qt. slow cooker. Add carrots, celery and onion. In a small bowl, whisk broth and tomato paste; pour over vegetables. Add plums, garlic, bay leaves, rosemary, thyme and, if desired, olives. Cook, covered, on low 5-6 hours or until meat and vegetables are tender., Discard bay leaves, rosemary and thyme. If desired, sprinkle stew with parsley and serve with potatoes.

CROCK POT SPANISH INSPIRED BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Prep all vegetables: onions, garlic, carrots, potatoes and turnips. Set aside.
• Trim meat of all visible fat and cut into 1 inch cubes.
• Season meat with kosher salt and pepper.
• Dredge meat in flour shaking all excess flour off. I use a plastic baggy to do this and make less of a mess.
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet on medium high heat.
• Once the oil is hot enough add meat and brown on all sides. You may have to do this in batches depending on the size of your skillet.You do not want to cook the meat all the way through, just brown the meat.
• Remove meat from skillet and set aside.
• Add dry sherry to the pan picking up any of the browned pieces and reducing the liquid to one half.
• Add the beef broth. Allow the liquid to come to a boil an simmer for about 3 minutes.
• Turn heat off and add tomatoes paste and whisk until the liquid is smooth.
• Add smoked paprika and stir so it's completely incorporated into the tomato/broth mixture.
• Add onions,garlic, turnips, potatoes, carrots and meat to the crockpot.
• Pour tomato broth over the meat and vegetables.
• Add thyme and parsley sprigs and mix through the stew.
• Set crockpot on low and cook for 8-9 hours or until meat is very tender.
• Add salt and pepper to taste, if needed, when the stew is done.

SLOW COOKER SPANISH BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Cook beef in hot skillet until completely browned, about 5 minutes; season with salt and pepper. Transfer beef to a slow cooker, retaining some of the beef drippings in the skillet.
• Return skillet to heat and heat the retained drippings. Saute onion and garlic in hot drippings until softened, about 5 minutes; add to beef in slow cooker.
• Stir potatoes, diced tomatoes, sofrito, and olives into the beef mixture.
• Cook on Low until beef and potatoes are fork-tender, 4 to 5 hours.

CROCK POT SPANISH STEW

Steps:

• Trim fat from roast and cut into 1 1/2 inch pieces.
• Mix together flour and sugar and toss meat with mixture.
• Brown meat in 3 Tablespoons of butter then place into crock pot.
• Next, add carrots, celery and olives (in this order).
• Do not stir mixture.
• In same skillet, saute onion and garlic.
• If necessary, add additional canola oil.
• Stir in stewed tomatoes, wine, tomato paste, basil, thyme, salt and pepper.
• Bring to a boil and keep stirring.
• Pour sauce over meat in crock pot.
• Cook on High for 4 hours or on Low for 8 hours or until meat and vegetables are done.
• If cooking on low, turn crock pot to high and add zucchini and cook for 30 more minutes or until zucchini is done.