Beef Stew

Made 12 quarts of Beef Stew!!

Per Quart:

1/2 lb stew meat
1/4 cup cut up baby carrots
3/4 cup potatoes
1/6 (ish) onion
1 clove garlic
1/2 tsp beef bullion
1 peppercorn

10 lbs pressure for 90 minutes.

To make dinner for my family of 7, thinking add another pint of canned beef, and use a quart of stock to cook some barley in to add. Thicken with cornstarch.

Edit: I wasn't fond of the way the carrots infused *everything* so heavily. Add them frozen, or pre-cooked later, and the amount of meat was kind of skimpy. There also was only a smidge of liquid in the jars, I'm thinking that a half cup of meat doesn't make that much broth, lol!

I used 2 quarts of the mixture, a cup of barley cooked in a quart of broth, a can of corn, about 1 1/2 cups each frozen peas and beans, and a can of diced tomatoes. Sprinkled with dried basil. It was tasty, but not the best.

Plan for next time:

1 cup beef
1 tbsp bullion (or montreal steak seasoning)
fill rest of quart jar with potatoes (likely about 1 1/2 cups)