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By *inaTitz OP TV/TS
over a year ago
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I'm looking to cook a stew tomorrow. Has anyone got any suggestions as to ingredients and what to do?
I was thinking of 3 kettles full of boiling water and a load of gravy mix in a huge pan, then all the veg and meat and letting it simmer for 3 hours.  |
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"I'm looking to cook a stew tomorrow. Has anyone got any suggestions as to ingredients and what to do?
I was thinking of 3 kettles full of boiling water and a load of gravy mix in a huge pan, then all the veg and meat and letting it simmer for 3 hours. "
Think you might mess it up by putting 3 kettles in the pan, just put the water in.  |
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"I'm looking to cook a stew tomorrow. Has anyone got any suggestions as to ingredients and what to do?
I was thinking of 3 kettles full of boiling water and a load of gravy mix in a huge pan, then all the veg and meat and letting it simmer for 3 hours. "
Mmmmm lovely ,we don't call it stew we call it scouse  |
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Cook slowly and leave gravy granules till last...loads of onion garlic leek peas....six hours low heat so meat just crumbles....mmmmmmmmmmmmm...loadsa mash n bread to mop it up...yummmmmmm... |
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"I'm looking to cook a stew tomorrow. Has anyone got any suggestions as to ingredients and what to do?
I was thinking of 3 kettles full of boiling water and a load of gravy mix in a huge pan, then all the veg and meat and letting it simmer for 3 hours. "
Chucking stuff in at the same time is never a good idea, meat needs sealing, and vegetables vary in cooking time.
Probably best to Google recipes, there are stew recipes from different food cultures. |
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over a year ago
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Fry meat and chopped veggies for a while, then add a litre of stock, bring to the boil, then simmer until veg are cooked. Add the gravy granules at the end to thicken (about a tbsp). |
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Get a slow cooker........ Fantastic!
Shin of beef, ( or brisket, both cheap!) leeks, potatoes, carrots, onion, a parsnip, tin of tomatoes, celery, a few mushrooms, salt and pepper, and a couple of beef stock cubes......
And if you like it a chillipepper......
Chop it all up roughly, bang it in with a small amount of water......
Leave it all day
Just before serving some gravy granules to thicken the gravy.........
Any nice ladies are welcome to come round to my house any time for dinner
( Guess what's for afters!)
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"I'm looking to cook a stew tomorrow. Has anyone got any suggestions as to ingredients and what to do?
I was thinking of 3 kettles full of boiling water and a load of gravy mix in a huge pan, then all the veg and meat and letting it simmer for 3 hours.
Mmmmm lovely ,we don't call it stew we call it scouse "
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I do mine in a slow cooker too.
Prepare everything after breakfast.
Brown stewing steak.
Chop up onion, potatoes, carrots and parsnips
Make up vegtable stock 500ml
Throw it all in the slow cooker on auto
Add black pepper, red wine vinegar, Worcester sauce and mixed herbs.
Give it a stir. It smells fantastic all day.
Then stir in corn flour in cold water to thicken 10 minutes before serving. We love it.
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Boil meat for about 15 even if you have good meat it gets rid of the last of the fat.
Onion carrot and pearl barley,and any other veg to your preference.
Then add beef stock (or oxo) cornflour to thickening simmer for a few hours, preferably most of the day.
Dumplings.
Flour suet bind together with a little water touch of butter too if liked, pop in half an hour before stew is cooked.
Serve with mash or boiled potatoes or just pop into the stew.
And not forgetting crusty bread to mop it up.
Her
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use some beer instead of water, cook long and low with everything in for about 4 hours, then add gravy granules at the end to thicken the liquid!!
its bloody gawjus |
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"I'm looking to cook a stew tomorrow. Has anyone got any suggestions as to ingredients and what to do?
I was thinking of 3 kettles full of boiling water and a load of gravy mix in a huge pan, then all the veg and meat and letting it simmer for 3 hours. "
Asda do dry packets for about 54p. I suggest to you the 'beef in ale' one. Its superb, I do att a knorr stock pot to it. has cooking instructions on the pack, I double up and freeze some, its even better defrosted |
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Stew!
Before going out in morning...
Take out slow cooker pot, put in mixed herbs, chop veg and add, add meat of choice, add dessert spoon of mint sauce, cover with water and put on lid, place in slow cooker, turn on at low.
Go to work...
9/10Hrs later
Come home...
Open door, smell the loveliness!
Get bowl, ladle, spoon and pickled red cabbage. Take lid off slow cooker and fill bowl, add salt, pepper and cabbage...
Eat Stew!   |
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By *inaTitz OP TV/TS
over a year ago
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"Stew!
Before going out in morning...
Take out slow cooker pot, put in mixed herbs, chop veg and add, add meat of choice, add dessert spoon of mint sauce, cover with water and put on lid, place in slow cooker, turn on at low.
Go to work...
9/10Hrs later
Come home...
Open door, smell the loveliness!
Get bowl, ladle, spoon and pickled red cabbage. Take lid off slow cooker and fill bowl, add salt, pepper and cabbage...
Eat Stew! "
Now that sounds a lot more simple. I can do that. |
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"Stew!
Before going out in morning...
Take out slow cooker pot, put in mixed herbs, chop veg and add, add meat of choice, add dessert spoon of mint sauce, cover with water and put on lid, place in slow cooker, turn on at low.
Go to work...
9/10Hrs later
Come home...
Open door, smell the loveliness!
Get bowl, ladle, spoon and pickled red cabbage. Take lid off slow cooker and fill bowl, add salt, pepper and cabbage...
Eat Stew!
Now that sounds a lot more simple. I can do that. "
I like the added red cabbage idea |
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I also add whatever wine I have open, soy sauce, chilli vinegar (homemade) and sometimes a little cream to add extra taste 5 mins or so before eating.
To make chilli vinegar:
Go to supermarket buy big jar with rubber sealed top, buy white vinegar and chillies.
Chop Chillies up put in jar, add vinegar seal and leave chillies to pickle. Will be ready to use after a week or so...(use with care!) And top up every now and again with fresh vinegar. |
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"I do mine in a slow cooker too.
Prepare everything after breakfast.
Brown stewing steak.
Chop up onion, potatoes, carrots and parsnips
Make up vegtable stock 500ml
Throw it all in the slow cooker on auto
Add black pepper, red wine vinegar, Worcester sauce and mixed herbs.
Give it a stir. It smells fantastic all day.
Then stir in corn flour in cold water to thicken 10 minutes before serving. We love it.
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This
But don't forget the dumpkins and Henderson's relish!
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onion n garlic .. fried... meat browned
i use red lentils in my stews,, potato, se, carrot, leeks.. top up with a stock that matches your mat and bung it n the slow cooker for about 7hrs.. job done |
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"Get a slow cooker........ Fantastic!
Shin of beef, ( or brisket, both cheap!) leeks, potatoes, carrots, onion, a parsnip, tin of tomatoes, celery, a few mushrooms, salt and pepper, and a couple of beef stock cubes......
And if you like it a chillipepper......
Chop it all up roughly, bang it in with a small amount of water......
Leave it all day
Just before serving some gravy granules to thicken the gravy.........
Any nice ladies are welcome to come round to my house any time for dinner
( Guess what's for afters!)
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Perfect - love the slow cooker |
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You are all wrong. Pressure cooker is the best way. Brown your meat, more color more flavour. Remove, brown onions, carrots with a bit of star anise. Deglaze with red wine and reduce by half, add the meat back, cover with beef stock. Put lid on, bring up to pressure and cook for 45 mins -1 hour. Release pressure, remove lid reduce sauce until it coats your spoon then finish with potatoes, turnips swede or whatever you want. Then chopped parsley before serving. |
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"You are all wrong. Pressure cooker is the best way. Brown your meat, more color more flavour. Remove, brown onions, carrots with a bit of star anise. Deglaze with red wine and reduce by half, add the meat back, cover with beef stock. Put lid on, bring up to pressure and cook for 45 mins -1 hour. Release pressure, remove lid reduce sauce until it coats your spoon then finish with potatoes, turnips swede or whatever you want. Then chopped parsley before serving."
One big problem with this method, it takes an hour and a bit to cook after you get home from work...
Slow cooker way it cooks all day and is ready when you get home from work |
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"I do mine in a slow cooker too.
Prepare everything after breakfast.
Brown stewing steak.
Chop up onion, potatoes, carrots and parsnips
Make up vegtable stock 500ml
Throw it all in the slow cooker on auto
Add black pepper, red wine vinegar, Worcester sauce and mixed herbs.
Give it a stir. It smells fantastic all day.
Then stir in corn flour in cold water to thicken 10 minutes before serving. We love it.
This
But don't forget the dumpkins and Henderson's relish!
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Now there's a thought |
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"You are all wrong. Pressure cooker is the best way. Brown your meat, more color more flavour. Remove, brown onions, carrots with a bit of star anise. Deglaze with red wine and reduce by half, add the meat back, cover with beef stock. Put lid on, bring up to pressure and cook for 45 mins -1 hour. Release pressure, remove lid reduce sauce until it coats your spoon then finish with potatoes, turnips swede or whatever you want. Then chopped parsley before serving.
One big problem with this method, it takes an hour and a bit to cook after you get home from work...
Slow cooker way it cooks all day and is ready when you get home from work"
big problem with slow cooker is you gotta get up earlier to prepare it! And you can do it the same way prepare it all in the pressure cooker, keep it in the fridge, when you get home turn it on, do your bits and bobs for an hour then its done! |
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"I'm looking to cook a stew tomorrow. Has anyone got any suggestions as to ingredients and what to do?
I was thinking of 3 kettles full of boiling water and a load of gravy mix in a huge pan, then all the veg and meat and letting it simmer for 3 hours. "
neck of lamb to make a nice pot of Scouse |
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"You are all wrong. Pressure cooker is the best way. Brown your meat, more color more flavour. Remove, brown onions, carrots with a bit of star anise. Deglaze with red wine and reduce by half, add the meat back, cover with beef stock. Put lid on, bring up to pressure and cook for 45 mins -1 hour. Release pressure, remove lid reduce sauce until it coats your spoon then finish with potatoes, turnips swede or whatever you want. Then chopped parsley before serving.
One big problem with this method, it takes an hour and a bit to cook after you get home from work...
Slow cooker way it cooks all day and is ready when you get home from work big problem with slow cooker is you gotta get up earlier to prepare it! And you can do it the same way prepare it all in the pressure cooker, keep it in the fridge, when you get home turn it on, do your bits and bobs for an hour then its done!"
Takes seconds to chop veg if you get a good mandolin or you can buy ready chopped fresh veg in your local Asda |
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"You are all wrong. Pressure cooker is the best way. Brown your meat, more color more flavour. Remove, brown onions, carrots with a bit of star anise. Deglaze with red wine and reduce by half, add the meat back, cover with beef stock. Put lid on, bring up to pressure and cook for 45 mins -1 hour. Release pressure, remove lid reduce sauce until it coats your spoon then finish with potatoes, turnips swede or whatever you want. Then chopped parsley before serving.
One big problem with this method, it takes an hour and a bit to cook after you get home from work...
Slow cooker way it cooks all day and is ready when you get home from work big problem with slow cooker is you gotta get up earlier to prepare it! And you can do it the same way prepare it all in the pressure cooker, keep it in the fridge, when you get home turn it on, do your bits and bobs for an hour then its done!
Takes seconds to chop veg if you get a good mandolin or you can buy ready chopped fresh veg in your local Asda "
im a chef mate i can handle a few veg! |
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"I'm looking to cook a stew tomorrow. Has anyone got any suggestions as to ingredients and what to do?
I was thinking of 3 kettles full of boiling water and a load of gravy mix in a huge pan, then all the veg and meat and letting it simmer for 3 hours. "
With a pot that size you could fit a couple of missionaries in it. |
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"You are all wrong. Pressure cooker is the best way. Brown your meat, more color more flavour. Remove, brown onions, carrots with a bit of star anise. Deglaze with red wine and reduce by half, add the meat back, cover with beef stock. Put lid on, bring up to pressure and cook for 45 mins -1 hour. Release pressure, remove lid reduce sauce until it coats your spoon then finish with potatoes, turnips swede or whatever you want. Then chopped parsley before serving.
One big problem with this method, it takes an hour and a bit to cook after you get home from work...
Slow cooker way it cooks all day and is ready when you get home from work big problem with slow cooker is you gotta get up earlier to prepare it! And you can do it the same way prepare it all in the pressure cooker, keep it in the fridge, when you get home turn it on, do your bits and bobs for an hour then its done!
Takes seconds to chop veg if you get a good mandolin or you can buy ready chopped fresh veg in your local Asda im a chef mate i can handle a few veg!"
I'm not...
So I can cheat
And do things the easy way |
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By *inaTitz OP TV/TS
over a year ago
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Update -
The stew has been on the boil for two hours now. I won't want it till 17.30 ish, do I leave it on the hob all afternoon or turn it off?
Ingredients are: kidneys, diced beef, diced lamb, 6 oxo cubes, spuds, carrots, swede, frozen sweet corn, onion, mushroom, sage and mint. |
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This is a nice chicken stew with herb dumplings.
12 skinless chicken pieces - a mixture of thighs and drumsticks on the bone, and halved chicken breasts
3 tbsp plain flour
2 tbsp sunflower oil
2 onions, sliced
2 carrots, diced
200g bacon lardons, smoked or unsmoked, or streaky rashers, snipped
3 bay leaves
3 sprigs thyme
bottle of cheap red wine
3 tbsp tomato paste
1 chicken stock cube
For the herby dumplings
140g cold butter, diced
250g self-raising flour
2 tbsp chopped mixed herbs - try parsley, thyme and sage or chives
If you want to use a slow cooker...
Use boneless chicken pieces as the meat becomes very tender and can leave chunks of stew in the stew. Flour the chicken as above. Heat the oil in a frying pan and brown the chicken in batches, followed by the lardons and onions. Transfer everything to the slow cooker along with the rest of the stew ingredients. Cover and cook on High for 4 hours. Make the dumplings as above and sit on top of the stew, cook for a further hour, then serve.
For normal oven .
1.Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Toss the chicken pieces with the flour and some salt and pepper, to coat them – it’s easy to do this in a plastic food bag.
2.Heat the oil in a casserole with a lid. Brown the chicken pieces well on all sides – you’ll need to do this in batches. Remove all the pieces to a plate, and tip the onions, carrot, lardons, bay and thyme into the pan. Cook gently for 10 mins until the onion is softened.
3.Return the chicken pieces, with any juices that have collected on the plate. Then pour in the red wine and tomato paste and crumble in the stock cube. Add a splash of water if you need, until the chicken is almost covered. Bring to the boil, then cover with a lid and bake in the oven for 20 mins. Remove the lid and bake for another 10 mins while you make the dumplings. Will feed 4/6 easy . Just need some nice mash on the side . x
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"I'm looking to cook a stew tomorrow. Has anyone got any suggestions as to ingredients and what to do?
I was thinking of 3 kettles full of boiling water and a load of gravy mix in a huge pan, then all the veg and meat and letting it simmer for 3 hours. "
how did it turn out Tina? |
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I'm going to start a stew tasting round and visit all of these .. Like an extended come dine with me, with entertainment and scoring but no silver platter of money |
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"I'm looking to cook a stew tomorrow. Has anyone got any suggestions as to ingredients and what to do?
I was thinking of 3 kettles full of boiling water and a load of gravy mix in a huge pan, then all the veg and meat and letting it simmer for 3 hours.
Think you might mess it up by putting 3 kettles in the pan, just put the water in. "
Yes I agree you can break your teeth chewing kettles |
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"Update 6 oxo cubes"
That might be a little salty; taste and is the lamb soft; if it is heat off and leave it alone, bring back to a simmer before serving.
Generally, start with onions and garlic, brown meat (unless vegetarian), add whichever vegetables you want (cut size dependent on how long you have to cook), cabbage, spinach, mushrooms added 15 - 20 minutes before serving.
Minimal salt, lots of freshly ground black pepper, don't forget the herbs (thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, parsley) or bouquet garni (grow your own, easy), a good slug of wine and use stock cubes or bouillon rather than oxo.
Cheap cuts of meat are perfect; rabbit, shoulder, shin; cook long and slow 6 or 8 hours at 150C until the meat, simply, drops off the bone.
Finish with chopped parsley, and dumplings are easy to make!
Will be entirely happy to sit on the stove top until the following night, in a cold kitchen.
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I've eaten many meals created by the deliciously deviant Doctor; he should be on MasterChef.
I've seen him at work; cooking 5 different mains for a party, at the same time, is impressive in a domestic kitchen, and that didn't include the sides and salads.
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"I'm looking to cook a stew tomorrow. Has anyone got any suggestions as to ingredients and what to do?
I was thinking of 3 kettles full of boiling water and a load of gravy mix in a huge pan, then all the veg and meat and letting it simmer for 3 hours. "
Got to have dumplings too please |
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By *inaTitz OP TV/TS
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THE RESULTS
Sorry for the belated reply, but I was out last night and it was a late one.
It tasted FOUL. I couldn't eat it, it was that bad. I ended up giving some to the dog. He was sick and had the runs. I had a really bad stomach ache (plus a headache from getting woke up yesterday afternoon). Today I got rid of all that was left.
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"I'm looking to cook a stew tomorrow. Has anyone got any suggestions as to ingredients and what to do?
I was thinking of 3 kettles full of boiling water and a load of gravy mix in a huge pan, then all the veg and meat and letting it simmer for 3 hours. "
Asda 3rd isle on the right,microwave stew 1.99
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