Hawaiian-Style Beef Stew | Food Wishes

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Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with Hawaiianstyle beef stew.

That's right. I thought I knew about all the beef stews there were to do, but then I found out about this and realized that wasn't true. So, I gave it a try and it was incredible. And now I'm going to show you how to do what might actually be the best beef stew.

And to get started, let's go over the most important tip in this entire video, which is not to buy pre-cut stew meat, but rather get a nice piece of beef chuck and cut it up yourself. And not

just because it's going to be cheaper and it's super easy to do, but because you can pick out the piece of meat you want in the butcher case, so you're able to get something beautifully marbled like this. And since a beef stew is only going to be as good as the beef that goes in it, I cannot stress the importance of this enough. And what we'll do is cut that into about one and a half inch pieces.

Although a little smaller or a little bigger will work,

right? The key is to try to get them relatively uniform so these pieces of meat get tender at the same time. And once we do have our beef prepped, I'm going to season it right on the board by sprinkling over some kosher salt, followed by half the amount of the flour called for. And what we'll do is give that a thorough tossing until those pieces of meat are evenly coated.