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Beef Stew with Root Vegetables

Chuck simmered slowly with carrots and potatoes until the meat gives way to a fork.

Beef Stew with Root Vegetables, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
140 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$12.72

Ingredients

  • 1 3/4 lb beef stew meat
  • 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 1 lb carrots
  • 1 1/4 lb yukon gold potatoes
  • 4 clove garlic
  • 2 oz tomato paste
  • 4 cup beef broth
  • 1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 tsp dried thyme

Method

  1. Toss the beef with the flour, a heavy pinch of salt and pepper.

  2. Brown it hard in the oil in a Dutch oven in two batches, then set aside.

  3. Cook the diced onion 5 minutes, add the garlic and tomato paste and cook until the paste darkens.

  4. Return the beef with the broth, worcestershire, bay leaves and thyme. Simmer covered 75 minutes.

  5. Add the carrots and potatoes in chunks and simmer 40 minutes more, uncovered for the last 15 to thicken.

  6. Remove the bay leaves and season to taste before serving.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 12 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
Australia$87.53$21.8812 of 12 ingredients
United Kingdom£41.50£10.3811 of 12 ingredients
New Zealand$87.28$21.8211 of 12 ingredients
Canada$120.26$30.0711 of 12 ingredients
United States$50.89$12.7210 of 12 ingredients
Germany66,51 €16,63 €10 of 12 ingredients
Austria€ 42,63€ 10,669 of 12 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٠٦٦٫٩٠ ج.م.‏*‏٢٦٦٫٧٣ ج.م.‏8 of 12 ingredients
Mexico$1,218.33*$304.588 of 12 ingredients
Greece16,73 €*4,18 €7 of 12 ingredients
Spain9,62 €*2,41 €7 of 12 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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