Easy Beef Stew - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 to 3 lb. stew beef
4 to 6 carrots
2 small cans V-8 juice
garlic powder to taste
1/4 c. Minute tapioca
2 to 3 potatoes
1 onion
1 can beef broth
pepper to taste
1 Tbsp. sugar

Preparation

Peel and cut-up vegetables.
Put in crock-pot.
Add beef on top of vegetables and don't stir.
Sprinkle tapioca and seasonings on top of meat.
Pour beef broth and V-8 juice over all.
Cook in crock-pot for 8 to 10 hours on low.
Fifteen minutes before serving, stir stew to mix in tapioca, which will thicken the stew.