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Recipe for Potato/Rice Stew 🥔🍚🥘

Did anyone think I was suggesting to include both potatoes and rice in the beef dish? I wanted to write it that way to save length in the title—and to have a little fun. But, as you can see from the image, we’ve got two similar but different recipes. And they are both yummy.

Beef Stew with Potatoes

You can see that I like to chop my potatoes very small. They cook faster and soften up nicely. When making the stew with them, that was always my first step. I would add the butter and seasonings and boxed broth mix (beef broth for beef or chicken broth for chicken) and boil the potatoes for about 10 minutes. Then I add my frozen veggies; usually one bag of frozen peas and carrots mixed and one bag just frozen peas. We noticed they’d been putting way more carrots in the mixed bag, so adding the peas alone gave us a better ratio. After another 15-20 minutes on a low boil, I’d add the meat. Here’s what I prefer to use:

The flavors of these are great, and because I’m making a large one-pot meal, I use the whole can. We usually have at least two days of leftovers.

Beef or Chicken and Rice

You’ll notice I was speaking in past-tense about the potato stew, and that’s because of the potassium in potatoes that prevents hubby from eating them anymore. So now we make almost the same thing but with rice and with less broth because of his fluid restrictions. At least we have found tasty ways around both the dietary restrictions and dietary preferences for both of us. The biggest difference in the rice dishes is using instant rice and adding it last. And just before the rice, I often add frozen corn. We like that to be less cooked than the peas or carrots.

Basic Ingredients for Both

• 1 can (28 oz for a large portion) shredded beef or chicken
• I bag frozen peas and carrots
• 1 bag frozen peas
• ⅓ bag frozen whole kernel corn
• 16-20 oz beef or chicken broth
• 2-3 half sticks of butter (or margarine if you prefer)
• 4-6 medium potatoes (diced) or 1 cup instant rice
• Seasonings to include: onion powder, smoked paprika, a sprinkle of parsley flakes, maybe a little garlic with rosemary in it. I rarely use a measuring tool, so most of this is just to taste. And salt if you want it. By the way, my favorite onion powder is at Amazon by Gustus Vitae brand. I’ll add links at the bottom for that (most spices in that brand come in convenient cans with magnets that let them stick right to the fridge—which is great for the Avocado Toast sprinkle), and the Colima salt I mentioned in yesterday’s cabbage soup post, and the rice.

I gave the basic instructions above, so now I’ll just add that my favorite rice to use is Minute ™ Rice, and while it calls for 5 minutes after you add it to a boiling hot base, I prefer to let it sit covered for 20 minutes. It makes it more tender and absorbs more liquid.

Here are the (affiliate for tracking) short links to items to Amazon…

• Gustus Vitae French Onion Powder: https://link.amazon/B07BvSDCy
• BONUS: Gustus Vitae Everything But the Avocado Toast seasoning: https://link.amazon/B0eNg0bsI
• Colima Sea Salt: https://link.amazon/B05F6RB94
• Colima Sea Salt FLAVORED: https://link.amazon/B0iBKvQ7T
• Minute Rice 72oz Box: https://link.amazon/B01Rwiobl
• Keystone Meats Page (all varieties) at Walmart (not affiliate): https://www.walmart.com/brand/keystonemeats/10071862

I hope these posts help you readers to create tasty meals for yourselves and your families. Feel free to share your successes when you have them, or tell me what you think about new products you had never tried before. I’m sharing them more for the joy than the affiliate click since I’ve literally never made even 1 cent from the program, but I am happy when I see that people have clicked and learned from my referrals.

November 8, 2026 - Posted by Crystal A Murray (aka CrystalWriter) | Creative Image Editing, Creativity, Food/Restaurants/Eating, Photo Studio Pro app, Recipes, Reviews, Slice of Life | beef and rice, beef stew, comfort food, frozen veggies, one pot meals, recipe, seasonings