Craving something warm and comforting? Don’t have time to slow cook a flavorful stew? Well, I have the stew for you, 60-minute Rosemary and Thyme Beef Stew.
Do you ever just crave the smell of your grandmother’s kitchen? The meals she prepped and let simmer for hours before you arrived? Those meals you dream about on Wednesday’s when you are only halfway through the week and are running low on energy and motivation? You know slow-cooked, tender, mouth-watering, and heartwarming meals like Beef Stew.
Beef Stew is one of those dishes that you smell and get sent to a place of bliss and comfort. It’s great when you can wake up and get all the ingredients into your slow cooker before your day gets started. But! What about those days where you are craving slow-cooked comfort, but you just don’t have the time?
There are times in life where nothing is going right. Sometimes you just need to take the time to make those dark, gloomy, and rainy days better. Make something that will take you back to a simple time. A time where sitting and eating a comforting, warm, homey, tender, flavorful Rosemary and Thyme Beef. It always makes a gloomy day a little brighter. Gets you ready for that final weekday push.
So, I looked in my fridge and saw I had a pack of cubed beef. I had just purchased some small white potatoes, and I always have carrots on hand for snacking. Beef Stew sounded great, but I only had an hour to cook dinner. Was it possible? I decided to give it a whirl.
I took my Dutch oven out because I just find it to be such a great pot to make a quick stew; but, if you only have a soup pot that works just as well!
I started with trimming and cutting the beef into a smaller size. This would help it cook faster and hopefully give me the tender texture Beef Stew should have. Once all the cubes were in smaller pieces I browned the outside of each piece.
Tender and full of flavor just like it had been cooking all day. Heartwarming and comforting, perfect mid-week pick me up. Just when you thought it was not possible to make a delicious Rosemary and Thyme Beef Stew in an hour. Now, folks, I am afraid the possibilities are endless.

Rosemary and Thyme Beef Stew
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 lb cubed beef trimmed and cut
- 3 whole carrots chopped
- 1 medium onion chopped
- ⅛ cup flour
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- ½ cup red wine
- ⅛ cup balsamic vinegar
- 2 tbsp Worcestershire
- 3 cloves garlic finely chopped
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 tbsp thyme
- 1 tbsp rosemary
- 4 cups water
- 1 ½ tbsp beef base
- 12 small white potatoes
Instructions
- Drizzle oil in the bottom of a Dutch oven and warm over medium-low heat
- Take cubed beef trim any big chunks of fat off and cut into ¼ inch big pieces
- Once all meat is trimmed using a paper towel and pat dry, this will help it brown in the pan. Next, lay the meat in the pan and allow to brown on each side. This typically takes 5-10 minutes depending on how big your Dutch oven is. ***You want to be sure not to overlap the meat, so if you have to do it in multiple batches do so.
- Once all sides are brown removes the meat from the pan and set aside for later
- In the same Dutch oven you browned your meat add the carrots and onions. Allow them to cook for 3 minutes.
- Add the flour to the carrots and onions. Stir until they are coated in flour.
- Add tomato paste, red wine, balsamic vinegar, and Worcestershire to the flour coated carrots and onions. Stir until they are completely combined, the mixture may seem thick.
- Add garlic, salt, thyme, rosemary, water, and beef base. Stir until everything is well combined and the beef base has completely disintegrated.
- Add the beef cubs back to the pot and add in the small white potatoes
- Allow the stew to remain at a simmer for 40 minutes, stirring every 5-10 minutes.
- After 40 minutes check on your potatoes make sure they are fork tender. If they are you are ready to serve if not give them another 10 and check again.
- Once potatoes can be poked with a fork and slide off easily the stew is ready to serve.
- Allow the stew to cool slightly before serving
I don’t eat meat, but this looks yummy! Could totally be made with a meat substitute.
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My parent’s don’t eat meat so sometimes I make this with portabella mushrooms and veggie base instead of meat or meat by-products. It takes half the time to make! One day I will get to posting that recipe! Thank you for the support!
Yes! Post that recipe! Vegetarian over here! ?? I miss hearty, savory meals like this.
Well, I will work on that then!! A lot of people didn’t show much interest so I never did. I will let you know when it is up! Let you know when it is up!
This looks so yummy! I will definitely will be trying this recipe!
Thank you!!
This sounds so perfect for those last few cold days we’re having. Beef stew is always a hit in my house!
Yes!! The weather here has been weird summer like for 3 days then cold and miserable lol wish it would make up its mind so I can plan meals accordingly. Hope you have a great day
I love beef stew! This recipe looks so good!
Thank you so much!! Enjoy!
Oh my heavens this looks delicious!! We are having a couple of cooler days here in Florida! This would make a yummy dinner tonight!!
The weather in Texas has been doing this weird hot cold hot cold thing. I wish it would make up its mind because stew on a hot day is just not the same! I hope you all enjoy!
I really don’t have a good beef stew recipe. Yours looks delicious and I plan to give it a try. Thanks!
I hope you enjoy! Let me know what you think!
Oh this looks so good! I’m a big stew person and my husband loves beef stews. Sounds like something we need to try!
Stew is just comforting!! I hope you guys enjoy!!
“Beef Stew is one of those dishes that you smell and get sent to a place of bliss and comfort.”
This is so true! ?
And thank you so much for sharing, you’re right… there are often times when you feel like you’re craving this but you simply don’t have enough time to prepare this on slow cooker because you just want to have it right now! (Curse you, PMS! ?)
Next time I’m craving for this, this is totally gonna be my go-to and the picture looks so delish too!!!
OMG!! I am over here laughing like a fool and my kids think I have lost it, but I love this comment. YES!! DAMN PMS!!!!!
I am all for meal planning and prepping on the weekends but honestly, there are those times where is no time no matter how hard one tries! But! that doesn’t mean one should suffer and not get what they want so was born this recipe!
I hope you enjoy next time you are having a craving!!
Oh this looks so fabulous! Since we can’t seem to get rid of winter around here, I’m still craving warm and comforting dishes like this beef stew.
This weather is crazy!! Usually, I am stating my garden by now but even here in Texas, we have still frozen at night. I hope you enjoy and I hope this warms you right up!
YUMMM! This looks amazing. It looks like a perfect meal for a cold day. Any suggestions as to what you should eat as a side?
Oh, it is one of my family favorites on chilly nights. Typically we serve it with some good crusty artisan bread great for getting every drop out of the bowl. I also love to serve it with a simple salad spinach and arugula salad with a raspberry vinaigrette, if I have it on hand.
This looks so delicious for a cold winter night! I need to try this recipe out soon because it hasn’t quite warmed up here yet ):
This stew looks so yummy and perfect for a chilly night in! Will definitely have to try this for dinner in the near future!
This sounds amazing!! I rarely cook with beef (had to marry a vegetarian, lol!), but I crave my grandma’s beef stew so often. I am going to have to try this for myself and my daughter.
This looks so yummy. We are having a cold snap right now so it would be perfect for my family to eat on this to warm us up.
This stew looks just delicious … I’ll prepare it for my next Sunday dinner! 🙂
We just had aton more snow roll through so this stew looks perfect!
Rosemary is one of my favorite flavors! This looks so good and perfect for this lingering winter!
The recipe looks super tempting. Will try soon