Poor Man's Stew Review

Poor Man's Stew original recipe

Poor Man's Stew

Author: Sarah Olson

Prep time:  15 mins

Cook time:  6 hours

Total time:  6 hours 15 mins

Serves: 5

Ingredients

• 1 lb. ground beef, browned and drained
• 1.5 lbs potatoes, diced large
• 3 carrots, sliced
• 1 onion, diced
• 1 garlic clove, minced (I had this on hand already)
• 1 (6-oz.) can tomato paste
• 2 cups water
• 1 tsp. salt
• ¼ tsp. pepper
• 1 tsp. onion powder
• 1 tsp. dried oregano

Instructions

1. Add the cooked ground beef, potatoes, carrots, onions, and garlic to a 5-quart or larger slow cooker.
2. In a small bowl whisk together the tomato paste, water, salt, pepper, onion powder and oregano. Pour this mixture over everything in the slow cooker. Stir.
3. Cover and cook on LOW for 6-7 hours, without opening the lid during the cooking time.
4. Serve with buttered sandwich bread.
5. ENJOY!

I made this for the kid and I. While it was a good base recipe it definitely needs a few tweaks to be an awesome recipe!
I have chosen to make this again with cut up inside round steak instead of the ground beef as I found that the beef just kind of disappeared in this. The garlic needed to be amped up too (You will find quickly by reading my recipes and reviews that we have a love for garlic in this house!). 2-3 cloves are needed here. Adding a little thyme or basil would be good too.

Saying this serves 5 would be generous. It served the two of us with enough leftovers for both of us for lunch the next day.

One footnote, I will be taking pictures to post with my blog entries but hadn't decided to blog when I made this!