Beef Tomato-Barley Soup

"It has lastly stopped snowing", she said quietly as she knocked on wood. We truly saw the Sun today together with they are calling for to a greater extent than Sun tomorrow; it has been quite a winter!! My hapless former crock pot has hardly striking the shelf this winter; it seems similar at that topographic point is ever around edible bean or soup recipe bubbling away inwards there.

Today's post is 1 of picky-picky husbands crockpot favorites. It is rattling rich, rattling beefy, rattling filling together with it only keeps getting amend together with amend the longer it cooks.


I was a immature bride when I tried to make  habitation made beef soup the starting fourth dimension time together with it was terrible (I mean value it called for a ton of bay leaves). I recollect cooking it all twenty-four hr menses together with wanting it to gustatory modality every bit skilful every bit it looked, but nosotros only couldn't swallow it.

I didn't laissez passer on upwards though, I tried all kinds of periodical recipes; around had a ton of herbs; around had onion soup mix; around had Italian salad dressing mix inwards it; I tried them all, amongst piddling success. I decided to become dorsum to a no frill vegetable soup recipe.  I tweaked it for years until it evolved into the recipe I'm posting today. Picky-picky hubby is crazy almost this soup together with loves to dip hot buttered breadstuff rolls into it.

2 pounds beef chuck roast
1 loving cup onion chopped
1 loving cup celery chopped
2 cups carrot chopped
4 large potatoes cubed
2/3 loving cup pearl barley (don’t larn out out)
(2) 32 ounce boxes beef broth
(1) fifteen ounce tin flaming love apple tree sauce
½ teaspoon dark pepper
(2) heaping teaspoons beef bullion granules

Cut the beef into 1” cubes, removing every bit much fatty every bit possible. Brown beef inwards a minimal amount of vegetable fossil oil until beef is nice together with crusty brown (this is where the bulk of your soup flavour volition come upwards from, together with thus don't skip this step).
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Remove beef from tiddler pan together with drain off every bit much fatty every bit yous can; add together onion, celery together with carrots. Using the wet from the veggies, de-glaze whatever crusty brownish bits on the bottom of the pan. If the brownish bits are stubborn, add together a tabular array spoon of H2O together with purpose your spatula to scrape upwards the fond . Cook until onions are transparent.
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Put the beef together with sauteed vegetables inwards the crockpot together with add together the residual of the ingredients, stir well. Cook on depression for 8 hours.
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NOTE: Do non larn out out barley. It non exclusively gives a wonderful flavour to the soup, but it thickens the broth.

NOTE: Put whatever vegetables yous similar inwards the soup, only brand certain they are vegetables that tin flaming stand upwards up to long cooking times.

NOTE: Taste the soup for common salt when it is almost done cooking.

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