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I'm Kathy Maister.

Most stew recipes can get really complicated, except for this one.

You cut everything up, throw it in the pot, cover it up, and put it in the oven.

Four hours later you have a perfect beef stew and the whole house smells fabulous.

The ingredients and equipment list is at the end of this video.

Start by preheating your oven to 325 degrees.

Cut 3 pounds of stew beef into 1 and 1 half inch cubes.

Then put it into a Dutch oven.

That's a big heavy pot with a lid that looks like this.

Six different vegetables need to be cut and added to the pot.

First, peel and dice one large onion.

The second vegetable is a red pepper, which needs to get cut into strips.

First, cut it in half and clean out the stem and seeds with a paring knife.

Now cut the pepper into about one half inch strips.

These are turnips, our third vegetable.

They're a root vegetable.

They need to get peeled with a vegetable peeler

and then cut up into chunks.

Using a colander, quickly rinse the fourth vegetable,

the mushrooms, and dry them with a kitchen towel.

Then pop off the stems.

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