Cowboy Stew
Big pots of meat and beans — Cowboy soup, Crockpot Cowboy Soup, Cowboy Stew, Cowboy Beans in a crockpot — for nights you need to feed everybody.
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dinnerCowboy soup
This is a great hearty soup for the upcoming cold months! As always tweak this to your liking! You can add diced jalapeños or chiles for extra spice. Add a cornstarch slurry to turn into a stew instead.
Haley JonesIngredients
- 8 oz Smoked sausage
- 1lb Ground Pork
- 5 cloves Garlic
- 1 whole Onion
- 3 small Russet potatoes
- 1 bag Frozen mixed vegatables
- 1 can Pinto beans
- 1 can Diced tomatoes with chiles
- 1 can Diced tomatoes
- 2 cartons Beef broth
Instructions
- 1Prep: dice onion, mince garlic, peel & dice potatoes, and slice smoked sausage.
- 2Brown ground pork in a couple of table spoons of olive oil. Add diced onions to pork while it cooks.
- 3When pork is browned add sausage & garlic
- 4Add all other ingredients and bring to simmer. Season how you please. I used smoked salt, cracked pepper, chili powder, dried onion, onion powder, and smoked paprika. Simmer until potatoes are soft. I let mine go for a couple of hours just to get the flavor I wanted.
- 5Serve and enjoy! I served mine with 5 cheese texas toast
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Ground beef, sausage, bacon, beans, and whatever cans are in the pantry — that's the whole idea. It stretches, it reheats, and nobody walks away hungry.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these on cold nights, on ballgame nights, and any time the crockpot needs to do the work while they're gone all afternoon.
Every recipe here is a version of the same good thing: Crockpot Cowboy Casserole with Italian sausage, Cowboy soup with smoked sausage and ground pork, Texas cowboy stew loaded with kielbasa and corn, and Cowboy Beans made from dried pintos.
Quick Tips
- 1
Brown the meat first
Cook ground beef and sausage in the skillet 6 to 8 minutes until browned, then drain before it goes in the pot. It keeps the broth from turning greasy.
- 2
Save the bacon drippings
Cook the bacon first and keep 2 tablespoons of drippings to soften the onion and pepper in — that's most of the flavor right there.
- 3
Soak dried beans overnight
Cover dried pintos with 2 inches of water and let them sit 8 hours, then simmer 1 1/2 to 2 hours until tender before adding anything acidic.
- 4
Add canned corn last
Stir in drained corn and other canned vegetables during the final 20 to 30 minutes so they hold their shape instead of going mushy.
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