I have been experimenting for a while with different stews. I have found the best vegetables to be Carrot, Potato and Celery, occasionally mushroom and onion. I like to add beer or red wine to the broth and further flavour the stew with garlic and thyme. Flour Dumplings are great too! I find my cast iron dutch oven produces the best flavour Any suggestions? I'm constantly updating my recipes. Tommorrow i'm making a beef and bacon stew with veetables, pale ale and pearl barley.
The old fashioned kind. 1 chuck roast cubed several potatoes peeled and cubed several carrots cut up 1 onion diced 1 can tomato soup with 1 can water or equal amout of tomato juice 2 or 3 Tbls ofground up tapioca slow cook several hours add some frozen peas about 10 minutes before serving Meat is brown and the gravy is nice and thick.
Personally, I like a good old fashioned chicken stew with chicken, potatoes, carrots, celery and peas
Of course stew is a matter of individual expression - almost like a family badge or motto. But i think i have found my heaven: Chuck beef rolled in flour, salt and pepper and fried in butter Add: Carrots Waxy potatos Onions Celery Garlic 1 Beer and enough stock to cover everything When cooked, add flour and butter dumplings with thyme
Cubed meat soaked for a day in burgandy. Pour contents into a pan and add a little flour stiring rapidly under medium heat. When it thickens a little add diced onions and garlic that have been cooked to almost brown state. Boil some potatos whole with skin on, after done skin and cut into chunks, shred some fresh carrots and mix all together. A little coarse ground pepper. All contents in a crock pot for several hours and yummy.
Depending on the stew, spicy, hearty, tomato based etc... I like to add to the spicy or tomato based, green beans, potatoes, onions and musrooms. I add the green beans and mushrooms toward the end... they just need to heat up.
