40+ Easy Healthy Stew Recipes
These easy healthy stew recipes are all packed with delicious flavor and and are easy to make. Stew is a great meal to make because it can be made with different varieties of hearty vegetable options and meats, or protein options. Healthy eating is much easier when you have a variety of easy healthy recipes to choose from.
A hearty stew makes the best comfort food and often comes together in one pot, in little time, for a quick weeknight meal or chilly weekend.
These tasty recipes cover a wide variety of options. If you are looking for a traditional healthy beef stew recipe, chickpea stew, chicken stew, seafood stew, or lentil stew you will find a few here. All of these easy stew recipes are gluten-free, and dairy-free, and many are vegan.
What You Need to Make Easy Healthy Stew Recipes
Making a good stew doesn’t need any fancy equipment. Many of these easy healthy stew recipes can be made using a stovetop Dutch oven, crockpot, Instant Pot, or a simple large pot. Often you can toss together an easy healthy stew recipe with random fresh vegetables and a few pantry staples. Here are a few basic tools and ingredients that are commonly used when making a stew recipe:
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Basic Kitchen Tools
Basic Ingredients
- olive oil
- tomato paste
- Worcestershire sauce
- bay leaf
- carrot
- tender potatoes- white or sweet potatoes
- bone broth or vegetable stock
For a hearty beef stew, you can use beef chunks from a lean cut of beef, chuck roast, or ground beef as your stew beef. When making any stew with meat, whether chicken, beef, or pork, you will want quality tender meat.
I tend to get my fresh organic vegetables from local grocery stores, but we source half of a steer from a local farm, and the rest of our meat online. You can get quality grass-fed and finished beef, organic chicken, and clean pork online from Crowd Cow here: Crowd Cow.

Easy Healthy Stew Recipes
From simple to creative, here you will find an abundance of delicious different ways to make comforting stew. Enjoy any of these healthy options during the winter months or all year long.
Easy Healthy Stew Recipes
These easy healthy stew recipes are all delicious and packed with flavor. A tasty stew is comforting, easy to make, and full of all of your favorite hearty ingredients.
Healthy Beef Stew Recipe
This healthy classic beef stew is made with tender beef and hearty vegetables to make the perfect comfort food.
Beef Stew Recipe with Red Wine - Beef Bourguignon
This beef stew recipe with red wine is also commonly known as beef bourguignon. A classic beef bourguignon recipe is a rich and flavorful hearty beef stew braised in dry red wine and beef broth and cooked low and slow.
Creamy Beef Stew with Kale and Tomato (Paleo, Gluten-Free)
Creamy Beef Stew with Kale and Tomato. A healthy slow cooker beef stew recipe full of beef, kale, red peppers, and carrots, and seasoned with paprika, tomato, nutmeg, and thyme.
Instant Pot Chicken Stew
This Instant Pot Chicken Stew is a comforting and flavorful one-pot meal that’s perfect for a chilly day. Tender chicken is cooked with vegetables and herbs in a savory broth, and the addition of frozen peas at the end adds a pop of color and sweetness
Gluten-free Beef Stew in Slow Cooker
Gluten-free crockpot beef stew is an easy family dinner. This gluten-free dinner is an especially cozy winter meal! Perfect for a cold day!
Gluten Free Beef Stew (Stove Top)
This Gluten Free Beef Stew recipe is thick, full of potatoes and carrots, and made on the stovetop. This easy beef stew recipe is perfect old-fashioned comfort food.
Moroccan Chicken Stew
Quick Moroccan Chicken Stew is an incredibly satisfying meal that feels fancy yet is easy to prepare! Serve it up with Ginger-Turmeric Rice for a wildly adventurous night in.
Delicious and Nutritious Pork Stew
This savory and rich Hearty Classic Pork Stew is a comforting low-carb delight, packed with tender pork and vegetables simmered in a flavorful broth.
West African Vegan Peanut Stew with Butternut Squash
A recipe for peanut butter lovers! Our favorite West African Peanut Stew. We cooked butternut squash, pepper, and spinach in a spiced peanut butter sauce to create a rich, creamy, and satisfying stew for cold winter evenings!
Roasted Root Vegetable Stew
This Roasted Root Vegetable Stew is a healthy, easy, and delicious way to clean out your fridge of odd bits and ends that need to be used up! Simply dice and season your veggies then pop them in the oven, to transform your basic blend of root vegetables into tender and caramelized pieces.
Lamb, Sweet Potato and Mushroom Stew
Lamb, Sweet Potato, and Mushroom Stew is a hearty, slow-cooked dish that’s loaded with veggies and rich flavor, as well as being gluten-free.
Mediterranean Tomato Chickpea Stew {Vegan & Dairy-Free}
This savory chickpea stew is a delicious high-protein meal, perfect to have as a quick lunch. It’s wonderful served with steamed rice, but it also pairs beautifully with toasted pita bread
Italian Lentil Stew Recipe
This Italian lentil stew recipe is richly flavored with smoky pancetta and plenty of aromatic vegetables, like carrots, celery, onion, and garlic, Top with fresh arugula, a perfectly poached egg, and a drizzle of olive oil and balsamic vinegar for a super satisfying meal.
Vegetarian Mushroom Stew Recipe
This Hearty Vegetarian Mushroom Stew comes together in about 45 minutes. It’s comforting and flavorful, yet surprisingly light. Made with whole-food ingredients, the easy-to-make stew delivers more flavor than thought possible.
Cioppino Recipe (Seafood Stew)
Cioppino is a comforting San Franciscan seafood stew filled with shrimp, clams, mussels, white fish, and crab legs all simmered in a rich broth made from tomatoes, white wine, and fish stock
Black Bean Sweet Potato Stew
Thick and hearty Black Bean Sweet Potato Stew is a vegetarian recipe featuring a blend of colorful vegetables, black beans, and warm taco seasoning, all simmered together to make a cozy, flavorful meal. Top with fresh herbs and some grated cheddar cheese for a meal ready in just over 30 minutes
Oxtail Stew Recipe
This oxtail savory stew recipe is warm, hearty, savory and so comforting! It simmers away until the meat falls off the bone tender. This beef oxtail is incredibly flavorful.
Instant Pot Gluten Free Chicken Stew
Comforting Instant Pot Gluten Free Chicken Stew is simple to make and tastes delightful. Homemade chicken veggie stew is so creamy, just like an old-fashioned chicken pot pie—a perfect dish to enjoy on a cold night or for an easy lunch
Gluten Free Beef Stew
Easy gluten-free tender beef stew recipe. The perfect cozy winter comfort food for all the family. Gluten-free and dairy-free recipe.
Spicy Turkey Stew (without tomatoes)
This spicy turkey stew is a fragrant dish with lots of spice and healthy vegetables too, but made without tomatoes.
Easy & Protein-Packed Lentil Stew
This healthy lentil stew combines a few cheap ingredients into a delicious, warming meal
Authentic Jamaican Oxtail Stew With Butterbeans
This authentic Jamaican oxtail stew with butterbeans is packed with authentic Jamaican flavors and spices, this dish is cooked low and slow, bringing out the best of these fresh ingredients.
White Bean Stew
This hearty and aromatic stew is packed with herbaceous flavor and good-for-you ingredients Serve with toasted garlic bread for a cozy and satisfying dinner.
Chicken Stew with Sweet Potatoes
This scrumptious Chicken Stew will leave everyone cozy and happy. It’s healthy AND delicious comfort food at its best. It just so happens to be dairy-free, gluten-free, and compliant for whole30 and paleo eaters...but tastes luxurious
Italian Eggplant Stew - 4 Ingredients
Melanzane in Potacchio (Italian eggplant stew) is a simple but surprisingly tasty recipe from the Marche region in Italy. It is a side dish that can be prepared in advance and enjoyed cold, warm, or at room temperature.
Brazilian Fish Stew - Moqueca de Peixe
You won’t believe how simple it is to make this fish stew. This super easy but hearty dish and full of flavor
Instant Pot Venison Stew
In this Instant Pot Venison Stew recipe, venison and veggies create a one-dish meal that is hearty and rich in flavor. Buttercup squash, along with the traditional carrots and potatoes, give this dish an extra flavor boost
Mushroom Stew
A quick and easy vegan mushroom stew that's hearty, and of course, delicious! This vegan stew will surely become a new favorite AND it can be made in your Instant Pot or on the stove top.
Irish Guinness Beef Stew
Beef stew meat, potatoes, carrots, along with herbs and, of course, Guinness beer, make up the base of this classic, flavorful homemade beef stew.
Paleo Beef Stew
This stew is packed with protein and healthy fats. It’s also a good source of fiber and vitamins from the vegetables. Plus, it’s all made in one pot,
How to make an amazing instant pot beef stew
A homemade version of a beef stew with healthy ingredients, unique seasoning, and vegetables, but one that will leave you incredibly satisfied—leftovers taste even better.
Cioppino - American-Italian Style Seafood Stew
A classic Italian-American seafood dish that originated in San Francisco consisting of a melange of many types of fish and shellfish.
Savory Pumpkin Stew
An easy, hearty, big-batch Savory Pumpkin Stew recipe in one pot! 9 clean ingredients plus a few spices. Gluten-free, dairy-free, and grain-free.
Butter Bean Stew
This easily made Butter Bean Stew is a great meat-free meal that is perfect for busy nights. It is a one-pot complete meal that you can have on the table in 30 minutes. The Butter Beans are the main protein component of the stew, simmered in a flavorsome tomato sauce with the addition of baby spinach and roasted peppers.
The Best Slow Cooker Recipe With Chicken: Chicken Posole Stew
You can make Posole a million different ways, but we're partial to this Chicken Posole Stew slow cooker recipe. The key is hominy, which is just dried corn that has been soaked until the hull can be removed.
Moroccan Spiced Carrot Chickpea Stew
A simple, pantry-led Moroccan spiced carrot stew, with only five basic ingredients plus spices. Easy and delicious, it's a perfect weeknight option packed with healthy carbs.
Braised Pork Green Chili Stew
Make a big pot of green chili simmered with savory chunks of pork and potatoes to feed the whole family. This rich, hearty green chili is perfect to warm you up on a cold day
Hamburger Stew with Rice
This Hamburger Stew with Rice is an easy, economical dinner option that makes use of simple ingredients. Serve with white or brown rice for a wholesome, family-friendly meal that is guaranteed to satisfy.
Cowboy Stew
Cowboy stew is a Texas dish with beef, sausage, and vegetables, mixed in a pan. Quick and simple sausage stew dinner for your hungry tummy with creamy and rich flavor.
Easy Whole30 Pot Roast Beef Stew
This easy Whole30 Pot Roast cooks in the slow cooker with carrots, potatoes, celery, and savory seasonings.
Smoky Lentil Stew with Leeks and Potatoes
This Smoky Lentil Stew with Leeks and Potatoes will be your new favorite stew recipe.
Rich and Hearty Sweet Potato Stew
This plant-based sweet potato stew is rich and comforting, made with an interesting seasoning combination including cinnamon, ginger, garlic, and basil. Serve it up with a crusty slice of bread for a satisfying comforting meal.
Gluten Free Homestead Cowboy Stew
Wholesome and dairy-free, this gluten-free cowboy stew features beef, bacon, and sausage – an easy and tasty meal that will knock your boots off!
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