Slow Cooker Guinness Irish Stew is the perfect comfort food to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day or any day with family and friends.
Slow Cooker Guinness Irish Stew
I am so late! In the food blogging world, you should be posting recipes two months ahead of when you really want them. That means that St. Patrick’s Day recipes like this amazing Slow Cooker Guinness Irish Stew should have been written, tried out, revised, blog post written, pictures taken, pictures edited, revised blog post and finally published back in January.
So here we are five days before St. Patrick’s Day and even though I am horribly behind schedule, I am bringing to you this amazing recipe for Slow Cooker Guinness Irish Stew. What can I say, I am just really running behind this year. So my tardiness is bad for me but amazing for you, dear friend. Let me tell you about this dish!
If you are looking for the perfect non-corned beef and cabbage dish to serve yourself, your family, your friends, your neighbors, your anybody and everybody, this Slow Cooker Guinness Irish Stew is it. Now as I have mentioned before in my Guinness Bangers and Mash post and my Irish Soda Bread post, St. Patrick’s Day is a huge deal around my house. It has been for years and it is second only to Halloween on my very short list of favorite holidays. Now usually I am not home on St. Patrick’s Day, I’m usually out having a good time and publicly embarrassing my husband but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying good food on this green and gold day of celebration. What’s more, this amazing Slow Cooker Guinness Irish Stew is done in your slow cooker which means it’s perfect for when you have friends over to join you for a Saint Patrick’s Day celebration and it’s also so easy and convenient if you are going to be out on the town because it will do all the hard work and be waiting for you when you come home.
This is a classic stew recipe with a Guinness Irish twist to it. It is rich, hearty and will bring any celebration to life!
This recipe was not originally on my list of culinary creations to bring to life. I already had 3 or 4 recipes and mind to write and try to make . Then a friend of mine threw this idea into the ring and I just had to pick it up and run with it. What could be more perfect than the dark richness of Guinness mixed with the heartiness of a slow cooker stew? I will admit, I was a bit nervous, Guinness can be a very strong flavor and although I love to partake in it on St. Patrick’s Day, I had never cooked with it before. I have to say, I think this was the perfect meal to try my hand at complimenting the amazing flavor of Guinness and really explore what it can bring to a dish.
So if you are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, give this Slow Cooker Guinness Irish Stew to a try. It is perfect slow cooker meal to serve your family and friends. Enjoy your day, get your green on and whatever you do, above all be safe.
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Slow Cooker Guinness Irish Stew
Slow Cooker Guinness Irish Stew
Slow Cooker Guinness Irish Stew
Slow Cooker Guinness Irish Stew
Slow Cooker Guinness Irish Stew
- 2 lbs beef brisket or any stew meat cut into 1 inch cubes
- 2 tbl olive oil
- 12 slices bacon cooked and cut into small pieces
- 1 medium sweet onion quartered
- 4 large garlic cloves minced
- 2 tbl butter
- 5 tbl flour
- 2 1/2 cups chicken stock
- 6 tbl tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon cayenne powder
- 1 tablespoon worchestershire
- 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
- 2 - 3 tsp salt depending on taste
- 1 1/2 tsp pepper
- 22 oz Guinness Draught
- 4 carrots cut into 1 inch pieces
- 2 parsnips cut into 1 inch pieces
- 4 cups small yellow potatoes cut in half
- Parsley for garnish and good crusty bread
- Start by heating a large stock pot over high heat on your stove top
- Add in olive oil and brisket pieces, working in 2 batches. Brown all sides of beef, remove and repeat with 2nd batch. Remove and add all brisket into the bottom of a slow cooker set to Low.
- Lower heat of stock pot to medium high and add in the bacon pieces. Cook until crisp and remove pieces with a slotted spoon to the slow cooker
Add in 2 tbl of butter to the bacon grease and then add in flour, whisking constantly for 1 minute and then pour in chicken stock.
- Add in tomato paste and stirring to combine, bring to a low boil.
- Pour in Guinness and simmer for 2-3 minutes.
Pour into slow cooker and add salt, pepper, spices, worchestershire and vegetables
- Cook for 8 - 9 hours on Low or 4 - 4 1/2 hours on High
- Serve with crusty bread and parsley for garnish
Classic recipe for a St Patricks day celebration and who doesn’t love Guinness I love to cook with it and also drink it =)
Beef stew is a classic comfort food at our house. I bet the addition of Guinness gives it a wonderful complex flavor. Since the temperature has dropped into the 20’s at our house, this is the perfect week to try this recipe with my family.
This stew sounds perfect for St. Patty’s day. Especially with how chilly the weather is this year! Pinning for this weekend!
It’s okay that you’re just now posting this. It’s actually right on time for all of us last minute people like me. This looks and sounds yummy and my husband would like the guinness in this.
Well, I’m Italian so I really don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day – but I’d gladly make your Irish Stew that evening. I’d have to go over to our son’s house to get the fancy beer — we drink wine. I’m sure he’d contribute if I told him I’d give him some stew for his kindness. Happy St. Paddy’s Day to you!! Please take pictures of your good time and post. 😉
I must admit I have never cooked with Guinness before so I am very intrigued. Love the color you got on the gravy too. I just got new slow cooker and loving it,
This is perfect timing actually – I have just made a Guinness cake tonight for my birthday and I have loads left. I’ve been fancying making a stew with it but hadn’t tested anything out – now I don’t have to! Thanks for the recipe 😀
I love cooking stew with beer as it adds so much flavor to the meat and the overall taste is robust and yummy! This should often be made before, during and even after St. Patrick’s!! YUM!
Heather, that Irish stew is simply gorgeous! Stew is tricky to cook properly, because it’s easy to cook one vegetable just right while the other is either under cooked or overcooked. From what I can see, you’ve managed to get them all timed just right. Beautiful dish!
You know the Irish are known for running late, so in their eyes, you’re just in time for this post. And I say, it’s never to late to share a hearty and delicious beef stew! This looks incredible and with all this snow we just got, right before St. Patricks day, I’d say the timing is just perfect! I could really go for a hearty bowl of this stew right now and drown my Winter sorrows!
Oh this Irish Stew looks SO delicious! I’ve never tried to make it with beer but I may have to, after reading your post. Thanks for sharing!! 🙂
OHMYGOSH my family would think they were in heaven if I served this up!! Guinness adds SUCH an amazing flavor to beef. I mean – I LOVE to drink my Guinness (it has vitamins… um… it’s good for me?) but I could see me making this, for sure!
I once visited the Guinness Brewery in Dublin, and they have a cafe there for after the tour – so many ways of using Guinness in food and drinks that I hadn’t imagined!
I am always running behind during festival seasons and to top it off, we Indians have at least one festival every month. The stew looks so hearty and the flavors are definitely well defined when cooked in slow cooker.
Oh Heather! At least you posted Irish foods this year. I have none.
It’s a good thing my children are out of the house because w/ everything I’ve had going on, we’re not getting much in the way of St Pat’s spirit here.
This is a great recipe and I’m sharing it all over!
This sounds like a perfect dish for St. Patty. I do have a friend’s party to attend and this would be a perfect recipe to take. Love the mix of veggies, meat and of course beer 🙂
That looks like a great hearty stew. My son would love it- he’s is my meat eater!