Beef Curry Stew – Beef Stew in the Oven

Is there anything more comforting than the aroma of a stew or soup bubbling away while you putter around the house? Beef Curry Stew – or curried beef stew- is super high on the comfort scale.

It is filled with tender beef cubes, potatoes, carrots, and onions all slow-cooked in a flavourful gravy made with soul-warming curry spices. While I don’t object to stew made in a slow-cooker, this stew perks away gently in the oven.

It really is no less convenient to bake your stew rather than plunk it into a slow-cooker and I think it develops a deeper, richer flavour. You get some added benefits aside from that, too.

Beef Stew

The best beef to use for beef stew is a matter of preference. I choose to use top round or bottom round because it is a lean beef cut that becomes meltingly tender in the long, slow braise that is favoured for beef stew.

These are both economical cuts where I live. But as importantly, everyone at my table loves beef and how satisfying beef stew is as a meal any time of year.

Beef. It’s what’s for dinner!

Beef Stew in Oven

The entire dish is made in one pot from the browning of the beef to the baking of the stew. And as I mentioned, it’s a better end product.

There’s something about the dry heat of the oven that super-concentrates the flavours in your stew, making it beefier, more savoury, and, well, just plain tastier. And if you’re anything like us and the teensiest bit parsimonious about turning on the furnace or starting up the wood stove before November, then you get the added benefit of putting a little heat into your home with the oven baking method.

…but back to this oven-baked Beef Curry Stew, friends. It’s the kind of stew that you eagerly anticipate all day long when you know you get to have it at night.

And mercifully, it tastes even better on the day after it’s made, so it is tailor made for large batch cooking on the weekend and eating off of for a couple of days. Even better, it freezes and reheats like a dream.

Keeping a couple of containers of Beef Curry Stew – Beef Stew in Oven stashed in the freezer is like having money in the bank for those busy nights when you need to feed your body and soul but just don’t have time to put in in the kitchen.

Dutch Oven Beef Stew

This recipe is pretty fuss-free, but you should not skip the browning of the meat. That’s an integral part of the flavour building.

And don’t fret the build up of stuff on the bottom of the pot as you brown it, because that will all incorporate into your final gravy and gives a major boost to the savouriness of the final dish. The only thing you want to avoid is a layer of charred flour, so keep stirring!

Be sure you use a heavy dutch oven or soup pot that has an oven safe lid. You’ll want to use one that has a capacity of at least 5 quarts to allow for bubbling inside the pot.

Use these to make Curried Beef Oven Stew

• Dutch Oven. Pictured here is the Le Creuset 9 quart dutch oven. If that is outside of your budget, this less expensive one will work, too.
• Slotted Spatula
• Cutting Board
• Chef’s Knife

Beef Curry Stew

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• Kielbasa and Pierogies Sheet Pan Meal
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• Parmesan Oven Roasted Tomatoes
• Easy Oven Baked BBQ Chicken
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This post was originally published October 22, 2017, then revised for clarity and republished April 2021.