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Warning! Cross post!!!
Lidl do family size packs of stewing beef 600g for €4 at the moment which is a pretty decent price. Two packs and some potato + vegs and a can of Guinness and you have a large wintery stew for not much more than €1 per head
For the Hipsters amongst us(Ye know who ye are!) use a craft stout(O'Hara's or O'Shea's?) instead of the Guinness and put the lot into a clay or terracotta pot and bung it in the oven to make a hipster casserole:)
For the slow cooker I would use the aldi beef casserole mix @47cent, two packets for a large pot of stew, mix it with some of the fluids from the stew and take off any excess fluid if there is too much before adding the casserole mix. Does a good job of thickening and darkening the stew.
Got a nice reminder of Christmas in the post just now from a fellow boardsie, thanks vic:D0 -
For the Hipsters amongst us(Ye know who ye are!) use a craft stout(O'Hara's or O'Shea's?) instead of the Guinness and put the lot into a clay or terracotta pot and bung it in the oven to make a hipster casserole:)
For the slow cooker I would use the aldi beef casserole mix @47cent, two packets for a large pot of stew, mix it with some of the fluids from the stew and take off any excess fluid if there is too much before adding the casserole mix. Does a good job of thickening and darkening the stew.
Got a nice reminder of Christmas in the post just now from a fellow boardsie, thanks vic:D
Started reading your post and thought you were talking about me being a hipster, then I read the end of your post and realised it wasn't me at all !! Hipster Casserole
Love it !
Your welcome BTW !0 -
Got a recipe? Ive tried in the past with my slow cooker but its always bland salty water and tasteless meat. How do you get thick gravy-like stew from a slow cooker? I could google it but all the recipes seem to be more American than Irish, Im looking for proper brown, thick stew like Mammy used to make
If at the end it's too runny:
mix 2/3 teaspoons of cornflour with cold water until it makes a sort of paste, then stir it into the stew.
Leave it simmer for about 5 minutes.
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For nice, thick stew, dust the pieces of meat in flour or cornflour before placing in the slowcooker. add some wine or stock (or Guinness) but not very much - the liquid does not evaporate to the same extent as on the hob, so if you end up with too much liquid, then you have put too much in. The meat and veggies let out liquid, too.
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I usually give the stew a boost too particularly when making it with red wine - a couple of leaves of bay (straight from garden), some Lea & Perrins, a wee bit of balsamic vinegar, a lot of tomato puree (darkens it and thickens it), some herbs of choice, some crushed garlic, pepper, salt, beef stock cube if you want. Stews also must have carrot + onion + celery in them imho to give them an extra boost of flavour!
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lazeedaisy wrote: »Guilty as charged, remember it now,
Funny how I always remember in the end! D'oh
Easy to do considering the thread slipped into the cooking and recipes forum:D 0 -
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snubbleste wrote: »Mixed Pepper bag 500g
This is shipped all the way from drought-ravished California!
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