This easy AIP Beef Stew is perfect for when you need a hearty meal, but don’t have the time to deal with any fancy cooking. Completely AIP compliant and nightshade free, this slow cooker beef stew can be made in the crockpot or instant pot.

This AIP beef stew recipe is for my all my IBS and digestive issue babes. I know it’s hard to find recipes when your diet is limited and you can’t have FODMAPS or nightshades or spices. For many years, I had to eat low FODMAP and nightshade free as I healed my gut. This recipe was one of my go-to’s to pack in nutrients. This slow cooker beef stew uses herbs instead of spices, is nightshade free and low FODMAP, and I find it just as delicious and satisfying.

Many stews call for braising the meat beforehand, but I often don’t have the time to deal with that if I’m putting this stew on in the morning before work. You can certainly take the time to do that extra step, but if you don’t want to deal with that, you don’t have to! For this easy beef stew, we are just throwing everything into the slow cooker and letting it do all the work.

AIP Beef Stew Ingredients

• Beef stew meat: I love buying pre-cut beef stew meat at the store to make life easier.
• Fennel: a great low FODMAP alternative to onion.
• Carrots
• Parsnips
• Celery
• Sweet potato
• Broth: chicken, beef, or vegetable broth will work in this recipe. Homemade, bone broth, or regular broth.
• Thyme: we are sticking to delicious herbs to flavor this stew.
• Rosemary: we are sticking to delicious herbs to flavor this stew.
• Salt

How to Make AIP Beef Stew

• Add everything into the Crockpot or Instant Pot and mix to combine.
• Cook for 8 hours on low (use the slow cooker function if using an Instant Pot).
• It’s really that easy and simple!

Substitutions and Variations

The best part about beef stew or dump-it slow cooker recipes is that you can really use whatever veggies you have on hand.

• Feel free to use potatoes instead of sweet potatoes if you tolerate them.
• Add turnips or other root veggies if that’s what you have around
• Use onion instead of fennel if you tolerate FODMAP’s
• Remember to use a broth without onion or garlic if you have issues with FODMAP’s.

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Slow Cooker Beef Stew

This AIP and Paleo beef stew is also nightshade free, flavored with herbs instead of spices. It’s the perfect gut-healing stew to warm on those cold winter days!

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword AIP, autoimmune paleo, dairy free, gluten free, low fodmap, nightshade free, slow cooker

Prep Time 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time 8 hours hours

Total Time 8 hours hours 30 minutes minutes

Servings 4 servings

Author Victoria Faling

Equipment

• Slow cooker or
• Instant Pot

Ingredients

• 1 fennel diced
• 4 large carrots or 6 medium, peeled and chopped
• 3 large parsnips peeled and chopped
• 4 sticks celery chopped
• 1 medium sweet potato chopped into cubes
• 1 lbs. Beef stew meat
• 6 cups broth of choice
• 1 Tbsp thyme
• 1 Tbsp rosemary
• 1 tsp Salt more to taste

Instructions

• Add everything into the Crockpot or Instant Pot and mix to combine.
• Cook for 8 hours on low (use the slow cooker function if using an Instant Pot).
• It's really that easy and simple!