Slow Cook Vegetable Cocktail Beef Stew

Total Time: 5 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 5 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 2 1/2 lbs stewing beef
• 6 medium carrots
• 3 stalks celery
• 6 shallots or 2 big onions
• 1 green pepper
• 1 (950 ml) bottle vegetable cocktail (v8)
• 2 1/2 tablespoons tapioca
• 2 large potatoes, chopped into small cubes

Recipe

• 1 cut beef into bit size chunks.
• 2 chop celery and carrots into 1/2 inch pieces.
• 3 slice big onions into quarters and quarter again.
• 4 chop green pepper.
• 5 pour vegetable cocktail into slow cooker pot, adding vegetables prepared as above.
• 6 stir.
• 7 add tapioca and stir again.
• 8 (important- do not add potatoes for more than one hour, place in cooker after 4 hours.).
• 9 set slow cooker on medium heat (or auto) and cook for five hours.