Barbara's Favourite Irish Stew

Barbara's Favourite Irish Stew

This is an excellent Stew.  Beef and Lamb do well together.  The flavour is very delicious.  

Ingredients

1/2 pound Stew Lamb cut into cubes 

1/2 pound Stew Beef cut into cubes

1/2 tsp. each salt and pepper

1-Sealable Plastic Bag

2 tbs. Olive Oil

1/4 C flour

1/2 C Red Wine

1 Bottle Guinness

4 C  Homemade Beef Stock (if you have it) or 5 C  Beef Broth

2 tbs. Worcestershire Sauce

1 tsp. dried thyme

1 - 2 Bay Leaves

2 tbs. Butter
4 - 6 Cloves Garlic Chopped
1 large white onion chopped

2 Large White Potatoes cut into cubes 1/2"

4 Red Potatoes cut into cubes 1/2"

3 Stalks of Celery, Chopped

2 C Carrots cut into 1/2" pieces

2 tbs flour plus 1/8 C water (for thickening near the end, if needed)

Salt & Pepper to taste

Instructions

- Place 1/4 C Flour and 1/2 tsp salt and pepper and Meat into the plastic bag and close.  Shake the bag until the meat is coated with flour.

- Heat oil in a Dutch Oven and brown meat on all sides.  Place meat into the pan a few at a time and remove each batch when brown and reserve until later.

- In the empty Dutch Oven melt the Butter.  Add onion, garlic, vegetables and saute until golden, not brown.  Remove the vegetables and reserve.

- Deglaze the pot with the wine.  Add the Guinness and beef stock,  Worcestershire sauce, thyme, and bay leaves.

- Add the meat and vegetables.  Stir until mixed.

- Bake at 325 degrees for 2 hours or until beef and vegetables are tender.

- If the juice has to be thickened, mix 2 tbs. flour in 1/8 C water and stir into the pot.  Continue cooking and bring to a boil on top of the stove.  

- Adjust seasonings.  Remove Bay leaves.

Serve with Potato Bread and Butter.

                                   

I hope you will try this recipe and enjoy it as much as I do.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day.


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