5-Hour Beef Stew

This beef stew with tapioca recipe is from my grandma Jan. It’s so good and comforting. Serve it with some yummy bran muffins.

Preparation Details

Prep Time: 25 mins

Cook Time: 5 hrs

Total Time: 5 hrs 25 mins

Servings: 10

Ingredients

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

Steps

1. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).
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.
3. Bake in the preheated oven until beef and potatoes are tender, about 5 hours.