Beef Stew - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. stew meat (beef cubes)
1 large onion, diced
1 clove garlic
pepper
1 pkg. Knorr mushroom soup mix
1 Tbsp. flour

Preparation

Saute onion until golden; set aside.
Brown meat in hot oil. Do not crowd.
Do in two batches if skillet not large enough.
Put browned meat in pot.
Cover with cold water; add onion and bring to a boil.
Simmer for 1 1/2 hours.
Pepper to taste.
Mix soup mix with 1 cup cold water and 1 tablespoon flour.
Add to meat; simmer 1/2 hour.
Add more water or beef stock if getting too thick.
Squeeze garlic through garlic press.
Mix into stew the last 15 minutes.
Serves 4.