Allison's Mom's Chicken and Beef Stew

Ingredients:

1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breast cut into cubes/small pieces
1 lb cubed stew meat (beef)
1 box of fresh mushrooms, quartered
1-2 handfuls of whole baby carrots
1 bag of small red potatoes, cut in half or into whatever size you’d like
Flour (a cup or so in a gallon freezer bag)
2 Tbsp. olive oil
2 Tbsp. butter, melted
2-3 crushed garlic cloves (I use the refrigerated pre-crushed garlic)
1 yellow onion
1 chicken or beef buillion cube
1-2 bay leaves, broken up
1 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
½ tsp. pepper
2 shakes of garlic powder
¼-1/2 cup fresh or dried parsley (I usually just do a few good shakes of dried)
½ cup ketchup

Directions:

Step 1
• In a Ziploc bag with flour, toss in meat to coat with flour. You will most likely need to do this in multiple batches

Step 2
• On the stovetop, add oil, melted butter, garlic, onion and turn to medium heat
• In small batches, add beef & chicken to brown
• Once browned, take out and toss in crock pot, then repeat
• When finished browning all meat, scrape the “sauce” from the pan into the crock pot

Step 3
• After all meat is in crock pot, add water just to cover the meat
• Add beef or chicken buillion cube
• Add 1-2 bay leaves, broken into pieces, sugar, salt, pepper, garlic powder parsley, ketchup
• Stir
• Turn crock pot onto high and cook covered for one hour
• After an hour, add potatoes, carrots, mushrooms and turn to low heat, occasionally coming back to stir
• Cook until carrots and potatoes are fully cooked (can easily stick a fork in them)

It is super easy once you brown the meat, which is a bit of a pain. Very yummy though and well worth it! Enjoy!

***This recipe does not freeze!!!

**You can also do this on the stovetop if you don't have a crockpot.