Slow Cooker Pumpkin Beef Stew

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I tin can’t mean of a cozier, more than festive meal than this. Slow-cooked beef stew filled alongside potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, tender beef, in addition to pumpkin purée. Served within roasted mini pumpkins! Just for the cuteness element, I desire to make these ALL fall in addition to wintertime long!

Beef stew is then nostalgic to me. My mom made it all the time growing upwardly, and it simply tastes similar my childhood. So many practiced memories of autumn and winter, and coming habitation to the olfactory property of her beef stew or pot roast. There’s goose egg quite similar the sense of taste of tender beef that’s been tedious cooking allllll day.

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I created this recipe with the flavors of my mom’second pot roast inwards listen, simply I decided to position an autumn spin on it alongside pumpkin! I added pumpkin purée to the beef stew itself, and I of form served it inward the footling saccharide pumpkins!

This time of year, it’sec actually slowly to detect the saccharide pumpkins or pie pumpkins. I got them at Whole Foods besides! They were right adjacent to all the wintertime squelch. It seems like a time consuming touch to this meal, simply it’s actually really uncomplicated. You merely cut the tops off of the pumpkins, scoop out the seeds, rub them with a piffling olive fossil oil, together with roast them for well-nigh an 60 minutes! Then y'all accept the cutest, perfect vessel to serve your stew in! These are ever such a striking when I make them for parties. Who wouldn’t desire to eat their stew out of a pumpkin?!

I beloved that the pumpkin purée in this stew makes it and then you lot don’t take to add whatsoever flour or thickeners. The pumpkin helps to add that thickness, and the fact that y'all wearisome make it for a long time, makes the stew extra concentrated together with rich. So delicious.

The pumpkins are of form optional, just I highly recommend doing it. It’s and so fun for autumn, together with it’s a prissy style to brand the meal even more especial.

I added carmine wine to this stew which I feel is always a must amongst beef stews. It adds a depth of season that actually tin can’t be replicated with anything else! If y'all don’t drinkable wine though, you lot could for sure sub it amongst more than beef broth.

The coziest meal e'er!

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Slow Cooker Pumpkin Beef Stew

This slow slow cooker beef stew is made extra particular too festive alongside the add-on of pumpkin purée, together with so it'sec served within of roasted saccharide pumpkins!

Course

Main Course

Prep Time thirty minutes

Cook Time 9 hours

Total Time nine hours xxx minutes

Servings iv

Ingredients

• 
  one
  tablespoon
  olive oil + extra for the pumpkins
  


• 
  ii
  pounds
  boneless chuck roast or stew beef (cut into ane'' cubes if it isn't already)
  


• 
  i/ii
  teaspoon
  paprika
  


• 
  one/ii
  teaspoon
  table salt
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  pepper
  


• 
  four
  cups
  cubed blood-red potatoes (mine were the mini red potatoes and so I simply halved as well as quartered them depending on size)
  


• 
  iv
  carrots, peeled in addition to sliced
  


• 
  iv
  cloves garlic, minced
  


• 
  one
  large sweetness onion, chopped
  


• 
  viii
  ounces
  cremini mushrooms, quartered
  


• 
  3
  cups
  beef broth
  


• 
  iii
  tablespoons
  tomato paste
  


• 
  iii/iv
  loving cup
  pumpkin purée
  


• 
  3/iv
  cup
  cherry-red wine
  


• 
  one/two
  teaspoon
  dried thyme
  


• 
  ii bay leaves
  


• 
  ii
  teaspoons
  chopped fresh thyme + extra for serving
  


• 
  chopped apartment leaf parsley for serving
  


• 
  4
  carbohydrate pumpkins
  

Instructions

1. 
   

   Heat a large skillet over medium-high estrus. Add the olive petroleum. Season the beef amongst paprika, common salt, too, pepper. Add to the skillet and sear on all sides until browned, almost 4 minutes. Transfer the beef to your wearisome cooker.

   
   


2. 
   

   Add the red potatoes, carrots, garlic, onion, mushrooms, beef broth, tomato plant glue, pumpkin purée, ruddy wine, dried thyme, together with bay leaves to the tedious cooker in addition to stir to combine. Cook on depression for viii-ix hours or on high for five-6 hours. Once finished cooking, stir in the fresh thyme. Season to gustation amongst salt and pepper.

   
   


3. 
   

   When the stew has a one-2 hours left, roast the pumpkins. Preheat oven to 350℉. Line a large baking sail amongst parchment newspaper. Very carefully carve the tops off of the pumpkins using a rattling precipitous knife or pumpkin carving tools. Scoop out the seeds together with "guts" in addition to discard. Rub the exterior too within of the pumpkins, too equally the tops alongside olive crude oil too season the within with a couple pinches of salt and pepper. Place pumpkins on baking sail, cutting side upwards, besides every bit their tops, and roast for thirty minutes. Flip the pumpkins as well as roast for an additional xxx minutes or until pumpkins are slightly tender and aureate. You nonetheless want them to keep their form!

   
   


4. 
   

   Serve stew within of pumpkins in addition to garnish with extra fresh thyme and chopped parsley!