I have to rave, no not rave, shout it from the rooftops that this venison stew is amazing! Originally, I made this stew because I wanted to make a hearty stew with venison so I took elements from two of my favorite recipes, Beef and Vegetable Soup (with ground beef), and Vegetable and Beef soup and created a delicious venison stew. But then, I made a few changes that took it from good to WOW!
I omitted the beef bouillon cubes (trying to cut back on these kinds of processed foods), reduced the diced tomatoes by half, and added 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter. It was perfect! The flavor stood on its own without the bouillon or the added tomatoes and the addition of butter took it to a whole new level. I added butter since venison is incredibly lean and it gave the broth so much flavor and depth. This is now the BEST venison stew so if you have access to some healthy and delicious venison, this is a must try recipe and if not you can always try it with beef for stew. If you use beef, you might reduce or eliminate the butter depending on how much fat is in the beef. One more tip... if you are in a pinch for time, you can skip the browning step. This stew will still come out fabulous.
Slow Cooker Venison Stew
Ingredients: 1 ½ to 2 lbs. venison roast or steak, (can use beef for stew) olive oil house seasoning* (or just sprinkle on some salt, pepper, and garlic powder) 4-5 potatoes cubed 4 carrots sliced in rounds 2 ribs celery sliced 1 onion diced 4 cloves garlic minced 1/4 cup butter (1/2 stick) 1 (15 oz.) can diced tomatoes 1- 2 tsp. creole seasoning (I use 2 tsp) 2 bay leaves 1 tsp. seasoned salt freshly ground black pepper to taste water 1. Brown meat in about 2 Tbsp. olive oil in skillet. Sprinkle meat with house seasoning while browning.
2. Combine all ingredients except water in large slow cooker. Then almost cover the ingredients with water.
3. Cover slow cooker. Cook on low 8-10 hours. Take out any large chunks of meat and shred/chop before returning to the stew. Remove bay leaves before serving.
*House Seasoning: 1/4 cup salt 1 Tbsp. black pepper 1 Tbsp. garlic powder Stir the ingredients together and store in shaker or other container. House Seasoning Recipe is from Paula Deen's Kitchen Classics: The Lady & Son's Savannah Country Cookbook and The Lady and Son's, Too!
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6/18/2015 01:38:16 am
I'm planning to get a slow cooker soon! I always see so many great recipes for them and it seems to make planning meals a lot easier! Thanks for sharing at Share The Wealth Sunday!
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Gina
6/5/2018 03:59:08 pm
Recipes look great buy why can I not print them on a nice sheet? Am I missing something?
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Thank you and you are not missing anything. I am so sorry, my blogging platform does not support any way to make printable recipes. I have asked for this support several times and it still hasn't happened. I should google if anyone has figured out a hack for this. In the meantime, the best I can offer is to copy and paste the recipe into a word document and then print from there. Thanks for reading and I will check into this again.
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Gilbert Gaumond
11/30/2018 01:10:22 pm
Simply high light the content you wish then left click and select print, that should do the trick, at least on a computer, I don't have any idea about other media ie: smart phones. Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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