stew meat

1 2.4

Meat cut into small pieces for slow cooking to make it tender

noun
/stu mit/

: carne para guisar

To make a flavorful stew, use 2 pounds of beef stew meat, cut into bite-sized pieces.
beef stew meat
lamb stew meat
pounds of stew meat

So then I'm going to put the bag into a bowl and for this I'm just going to dump in some Stew meat.

Examples

The frequent suggestions of earlier reformers to prepare slow-cooked foods from the cheapest ingredients, like dried beans and stew meat, made sense from the viewpoint of strict economy and their sense of nutrition.

Academic text (2014)
- They're stew meat.

Home on the Range (2004)
And I count on them for a little bit of stew meat...

Fiction book (1990)
If she hadn't taken so long with the stew meat that time.

Fiction book (1993)
We talked for about an hour, and as we were leaving, he gave me several venison steaks, sausage, and stew meat.

Blog text (30)
Some days, Shining Agate would boil the stew meat with salmonberry leaves, making it bitter and sour, but Left Hand would only flatter the taste.

Fiction book (1993)
I can buy stew meat for $4/lb from the rancher instead of $8 (that's the markup at the local food co-op).

Blog text (12)
For the recipe, add 1 1/2 pounds of lamb stew meat, diced into 1-inch cubes.
He always prefers using chicken stew meat for his hearty winter recipes.

Synonyms

meat

vsstew meat

∞ 1.0

The flesh of animals that people eat

is the small tougher pieces selected for long moist cooking to tenderize

cut

vsstew meat

46 2.1

A piece of meat sliced from an animal for cooking

is used when small tougher pieces are cooked slowly to become tender

cut of meat

vsstew meat

6 2.7

A piece of meat taken from a certain part of an animal

is chosen specifically for slow cooking to soften tough fibers

How Tender

steak

474 1.0

stew meat

1 2.4

brisket

26 4.1

shank

9 5.8

Surface Forms

stew meat singular

stew meats plural

Morphology

stew + meat

The meaning 'meat intended for stewing' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'stew' (to simmer slowly) with 'meat' (animal flesh); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer this refers to meat prepared/cut for stewing. This is a straightforward attributive/compositional noun phrase following common cross-linguistic cooking-language patterns, so the sense is immediately recoverable from the parts.

Etymology

Stew meat comes from the simple kitchen picture of pieces of meat cut small to cook slowly in a stew. That's why stew meat means 'meat cut and chosen for slow cooking so it becomes tender'.