No meat Beef Stew - Vegan - Vegetarian - GF option - soy free

It's February, cold, and I was in the mood for some winter thawing, soul warming, filling food.

I wanted something like beef stew, but I have not eaten red meat in about 5 years, and was not about to suffer the consequences from that one. So I Vegan-ed it.

 Here is what I came up with. 

Enjoy!

Here is what you will need. It takes about two hours to make. 

3 Tbsp Vegetable oil 

2 sweet onions

1-28oz can diced tomatoes 

2 garlic cloves, minced

1 tsp dried thyme

3 tbsp flour 

(this is the only gluten in the recipe. 

To make GF sub for rice flour or corn meal)

1 cup dry red wine

2 cups veggie broth

3 lbs red potatoes 

1 lb carrots

1 bag frozen peas*

1 bag frozen corn*

Get yourself a big pot and put it on high on a burner.

Heat the oil then add the onion (chopped fine). 

Cook the onion for 5 mins (longer if you like them brown like I do).

Once the onions are to your desired brown-ness, add the can of tomatoes and cook for 5 mins more. 

Add the garlic and thyme and cook until you can smell it, like 30 secs.

Add the flour and cook for about a min, stirring constantly. 

Add the red wine and stir, then add the veggie broth. 

Mix it all together, but a lid on it, and turn the heat down to med-low. 

Cook this base until for an hour, stirring every five to ten mins. Make sure you scrape the bottom of the pot to get all the good brown down there, and to avoid the burn. 

In the mean time thoroughly wash the red potatoes and cut to your desired size. I left them pretty big, because these are subbing for the meat in this dish, so I wanted them to be substantial. 

Then wash*, peel, and cut the carrots. I sliced them thin so they would be soft.

After the stew base is done, add the potatoes and carrots, and stir them in so they are covered in the base. Cook all of this for one more hour, stirring the same. If you need you can add more water, a half cup at a time. 

About five mins before the hour is up, add the frozen peas and frozen corn.

Turn off the heat after the hour is up, and let the peas and corn warm up. 

We served this over beed bread (I will post that soon too!). 

I know you will enjoy, we did! In fact I am going to get me a bowl of leftovers now. 

Happy eats! 

Love,

Beka Oakley

* Make sure when you are shopping for frozen veggies that the ingredients only say the vegetable. No added salt or sugar or preservatives. Also make sure the bag is loose inside, and there are no big lumps (which means it was thawed and re-froze). 

* Even though you are peeling the carrots, please wash them, especially if you do not buy organic (which I do not on many things, carrots included). The pesticides will get onto the peeler and you will just transfer it to back  to the carrot. So wash those suckas!