Gluten Free Living – 2016

Slow Cooker Beef and Sweet Potato Stew is a wonderful, clean-eating soup your family is sure to enjoy. It’s healthy, low calorie, gluten free and dairy free, yet so easy to make because you toss everything into your slow cooker!

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It’s filled with all kinds of veggies (including my favorite: sweet potatoes). I seasoned it with some of my favorite seasonings like marjoram. It’s succulent and delicious comfort food that’s great for any occasion. It’s also a terrific way to use up leftover veggies if you have them. Just make sure you add them the last half hour and not at the beginning if they’re already cooked.

I have a friend whom I met while we both lived in Massachusetts. We met at church there and our children were about the same age. We moved to Texas in 1996 and they followed in 2000. For the next eight or nine years we prayed together weekly about everything from politics to family and everything in between. After I started seminary in 2008, my time was limited, then we moved farther south and got involved in a church plant so we stopped meeting for several years.

In 2015 she was diagnosed with cancer and also moved up to north Plano, which is now about an hour’s drive away. We still try to meet to talk and pray about once a month. When we do we have lunch together. Because of the cancer and radiation treatments, she is on a very restricted diet. No dairy, no legumes (except green beans), no white potatoes, no mushrooms. Nor any kind of condiment or processed food that has preservatives, high fructose corn syrup, sugar or unhealthy oils.

I whipped up this quick and easy stew (minus my favorite mushrooms) for our lunch in February. It was a huge hit. This stuff is savory and delicious. My friend raved and raved over how good it tasted. It is made with clean eating ingredients that are easy to find and add wonderful flavor.

The leeks, garlic and onions supplement the seasonings and make this stew quite mouthwatering. I put most of the stuff in the crockpot and cooked them for a couple of hours. Then I added the veggies that wouldn’t take as long to cook and cooked them through about an hour.

I hope you enjoy making this delicious soup in your crockpot sometime soon. Slow Cooker Beef and Sweet Potato Stew truly delights the taste buds. It’s also hearty, filling and infinitely satisfying! If you are on special diets and would like me to try to make something that fits your dietary needs, please let me know on the comment form at the bottom of this post. I will try to whip up something you and your family can enjoy. Bon Appetit!

I recently remade this recipe (January 2020) for our Friday night care group. The only thing I did differently is remove the gluten free flour that I used as a thickener in the first version. Actually I liked it a lot better that way. We served it with cornbread and everyone loved it. Plus, you just can’t beat a hot bowl of stew on cold, winter nights. Yum.

Slow Cooker Beef and Sweet Potato Stew is comfort food at it’s finest.

This is straight out of the crockpot. Serve with gluten free bread or rolls, if desired.

This is a couple of days later with Jalapeno Cheddar Cornbread crumbled into the stew. It was so delicious.

Here’s what I did.

I used these ingredients.

Place stew beef in a crockpot.

Pour beef broth (or vegetable broth) into crockpot over top of the beef.

Add carrots, leeks, celery, green onions and sweet potatoes.

Add bell pepper strips, garlic and seasonings.

Cook ingredients about 4 hours on LOW.

Add tomatoes, green beans, zucchini and yellow squash.

Heat through about one more hour on LOW.

This stew is savory and incredibly delicious.

Ladle into bowls and serve.

If you enjoy soup as comfort food, you’ve got to give Slow Cooker Beef and Sweet Potato Stew a try.

Here’s the recipe.

SLOW COOKER BEEF AND SWEET POTATO STEW

(My own concoction)

Slow Cooker Beef and Sweet Potato Stew

Teresa Ambra

Slow Cooker Beef and Sweet Potato Stew is so savory and scrumptious. The stew is filled with all kinds of vegetables and delicious seasonings, making it comfort food at its finest! It's the perfect comfort food meal on cold, winter nights. Plus, it's so very easy to make since all the ingredients are tossed into the crockpot! Healthy, low calorie, cleaning eating, gluten free and dairy free.

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Prep Time 40 minutes mins

Cook Time 5 hours hrs

Total Time 5 hours hrs 40 minutes mins

Course Main Dish, Soups, Stews & Chowders

Cuisine American

Servings 10

Calories 274 kcal

Equipment

• 1 crockpot
• 1 sharp knife to cut vegetables
• measuring cups
• measuring spoons
• 1 vegetable peeler
• 1 wooden spoon
• 1 soup ladle

Ingredients

  

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• 2 1/2 lbs. stew beef
• 2 large carrots peeled and sliced
• 2 leeks green top removed, washed thoroughly and sliced
• 2 ribs celery diced or sliced on the diagonal
• 5 green onions sliced
• 2 large sweet potatoes peeled and cubed
• 1/2 orange bell pepper diced
• 1/2 yellow bell pepper diced
• 1/2 red bell pepper diced
• 1 large zucchini sliced
• 1 large yellow squash sliced
• 1/2 lb. whole green beans ends removed
• 6 roma tomatoes sliced
• 4 cloves garlic minced
• 32 oz. vegetable broth or beef broth
• 1 tbsp. dried parsley
• 1 tsp. dried marjoram
• 1 tsp. dried thyme
• 1 tsp. dried rosemary
• 1 1/2 tsp. pink Himalayan sea salt
• 3/4 tsp. ground black pepper

Instructions

 

• Place stew beef into crockpot; add broth over top.
• Add carrots, leeks, celery, green onions, sweet potatoes, bell peppers, garlic and seasonings.
• Cook on low about 4 hours.
• Add zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes and green beans.
• Heat through about 1 hour.
• Garnish with fresh parsley, if desired.
• Serve with cornbread, if desired.

Notes

NOTE: If using leftover vegetables, do not add until the last half hour of cooking time, to heat through.

 

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Nutrition

Calories: 274kcalCarbohydrates: 26gProtein: 29gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 70mgSodium: 420mgPotassium: 1113mgFiber: 6gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 13287IUVitamin C: 53mgCalcium: 126mgIron: 5mg

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Serve with hot bread or your favorite cornbread and you have a nourishing and delicious meal.

Every spoonful is amazing. Slow Cooker Beef and Sweet Potato Stew is easy since it’s made in the crockpot.

We loved the way Slow Cooker Beef and Sweet Potato Stew turned out. I believe you will too.

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Slow Cooker Beef and Sweet Potato Stew

Teresa Ambra

Slow Cooker Beef and Sweet Potato Stew is so savory and scrumptious. The stew is filled with all kinds of vegetables and delicious seasonings, making it comfort food at its finest! It’s the perfect comfort food meal on cold, winter nights. Plus, it’s so very easy to make since all the ingredients are tossed into the crockpot! Healthy, low calorie, cleaning eating, gluten free and dairy free.

No ratings yet

Print Recipe Pin Recipe

Prep Time 40 minutes mins

Cook Time 5 hours hrs

Total Time 5 hours hrs 40 minutes mins

Course Main Dish, Soups, Stews & Chowders

Cuisine American

Servings 10

Calories 274 kcal

Equipment

• 1 crockpot
• 1 sharp knife to cut vegetables
• measuring cups
• measuring spoons
• 1 vegetable peeler
• 1 wooden spoon
• 1 soup ladle

Ingredients

  

1x2x3x

• 2 1/2 lbs. stew beef
• 2 large carrots peeled and sliced
• 2 leeks green top removed, washed thoroughly and sliced
• 2 ribs celery diced or sliced on the diagonal
• 5 green onions sliced
• 2 large sweet potatoes peeled and cubed
• 1/2 orange bell pepper diced
• 1/2 yellow bell pepper diced
• 1/2 red bell pepper diced
• 1 large zucchini sliced
• 1 large yellow squash sliced
• 1/2 lb. whole green beans ends removed
• 6 roma tomatoes sliced
• 4 cloves garlic minced
• 32 oz. vegetable broth or beef broth
• 1 tbsp. dried parsley
• 1 tsp. dried marjoram
• 1 tsp. dried thyme
• 1 tsp. dried rosemary
• 1 1/2 tsp. pink Himalayan sea salt
• 3/4 tsp. ground black pepper

Instructions

 

• Place stew beef into crockpot; add broth over top.
• Add carrots, leeks, celery, green onions, sweet potatoes, bell peppers, garlic and seasonings.
• Cook on low about 4 hours.
• Add zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes and green beans.
• Heat through about 1 hour.
• Garnish with fresh parsley, if desired.
• Serve with cornbread, if desired.

Notes

NOTE: If using leftover vegetables, do not add until the last half hour of cooking time, to heat through.

 

^© Can’t Stay Out of the Kitchen

Nutrition

Calories: 274kcalCarbohydrates: 26gProtein: 29gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 70mgSodium: 420mgPotassium: 1113mgFiber: 6gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 13287IUVitamin C: 53mgCalcium: 126mgIron: 5mg

Keyword beef, beef stew, crockpot, green beans, main dish, Slow Cooker, soup, stew, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, yellow squash, zucchini

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