Рецепт Beans and Beef Doesn't Always Mean Chili.
There are too many times I stand and stare into the depths of the refrigerator and freezer wondering what to make for dinner. That's also how I come up with many of my spontaneous recipes; boredom, frustration and a "I wonder if..." attitude. Holding a two and a half pound package of stew beef (beef cubes) in my hand, I wondered what in the world to do with it. Not beef stew again, just did that two weeks ago; not chili, just not in the mood for it and then I would have to make a truly large batch to share with my mom-in-law which meant going out to the store for more meat. Too much effort! Then I remembered my Taste of Home winning recipe, "Beefy Barbecue Macaroni", but I didn't want to deal with the cheese sauce and wasn't in the mood for pasta. Sometimes I am just my own worst enemy, especially when it comes to cooking.
Still had no clue what to create, so decided to trim the stew beef cubes and maybe an idea would come to me. Now stew beef is essentially all the bit and pieces the butchers cut off steaks and roasts; sometimes there is a good bit of meat left, so they package it up for consumers to buy and make recipes such as chili, beef stew, maybe even kabobs. However you should always examine the beef before just throwing it into your pot, as many pieces may need to be trimmed of fat; some might be pure fat themselves. If you don't want to deal with this process, then go ahead and purchase a nice lean roast and just cut it up yourself. With the beef I had, I needed to cut only a little fat off, but I finally decided to use the crock pot and made them as uniform to one inch as I could.
Alright, kind of use that recipe I mentioned, but in the crock pot; but no cheese, what am I going to do without cheese? Looking around the pantry I found cans of red kidney beans; well just because I was adding beans didn't make it chili, right? These are the ingredients I finally centered on: barbecue sauce, the beans, tomatoes, red onion and green bell pepper. I was going to make a barbecue sauce based beef stew, but without the traditional vegetables of carrots and potatoes.
Here's the recipe...
Ingredients:
- 2 ½ lbs beef cubes;
- trimmed of fat and cut into 1 inch pieces
- ¼ cup flour
- 1 ½ cups chopped red onion
- ½ cup diced green bell
- pepper
- 1 cup red kidney beans
- 2 cups chopped tomatoes
- 1 (19 oz) bottle bbq sauce
- (hickory brown sugar)
- Spray a 4 quart crock pot
with nonstick cooking spray; set on low heat.
Spread beef cubes on bottom and sprinkle flour over all. Spread other ingredients out in layers:
onions, bell pepper, beans and tomatoes.
Pour bbq sauce on top; cover and cook for 8 hours.
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