Stew is a national Irish dish. It contains meat, onions, potatoes, as well as cumin and parsley. The dish is very nutritious and traditionally needs to be served in large portions.
To prepare an Irish stew you will need: 1.5 kg of beef, 1.5 potatoes, 6 cloves of garlic, 400 ml of dark beer, 3 tbsp. broth, 300 g canned tomatoes, 100 g celery root, 2 onions, 1 tbsp. sugar, 2 tbsp. thyme, some Worcester sauce, 2 bay leaves, 50 g olive oil, 2 tablespoons drain. butter, 2 carrots, pepper, salt, 2 tbsp. parsley.
Wash the meat, dry it, cut it into small pieces. Fry in small portions in a preheated skillet. Fry carrots, onions, celery root separately. When vegetables are tender, add canned tomatoes, chopped chives, thyme, and Worcestershire sauce. Add pieces of meat, hot beer and broth. Pepper, salt, add sugar, add lavrushka. Simmer the stew over low heat for 1-1.5 hours. At the end add fried potatoes, herbs. In Irish stew, you can put pumpkin, Brussels sprouts, beans.
Worcester sauce can be substituted for soy sauce.
Irish lamb stew is prepared as follows. Required: 500 g of potatoes 500 g of lamb, 200 g of onion, 400 g of carrots, 500 ml of dark beer, 100 g of flour, 2 bay leaves, 200 g of celery, ground pepper, salt, vegetable. oil, parsley, thyme, 4 cloves of garlic.
Beer gives the stew a peculiar bitterness and pleasant aroma. Wash the vegetables, peel them. Peel the lamb from films, streaks and fat, cut into large pieces. Dip them in flour. Heat a skillet with vegetable oil, fry the lamb over high heat for 2 minutes. from each side. Place the meat, along with the remaining oil, in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Season with salt and pepper, add coarsely chopped onions, carrots, celery root. Pour in beer, bring to a boil and reduce heat to low.
Simmer stew for 1.5-2 hours. If the liquid boils away, you can add it while cooking. Half an hour before the end of cooking, place the potatoes, cut into large pieces. Put chopped herbs and garlic in the finished stew, let it brew for 30 minutes.
Irish stew tastes better if left to steep overnight.
Irish stew can be made in an easier way. Products: 1 kg of beef, 4 carrots, 2 onions, 6-8 pcs. potatoes, water, pepper, salt. Cut the meat into small cubes, fry in a skillet. Add the water and place the carrots, chopped into strips, and onion rings. Bring water to a boil, season with salt, add half of the potatoes, cut into small cubes. Reduce fire to minimum.
After half an hour, add the other half of the coarsely chopped potatoes and cook for another half hour. At the end of cooking, add chopped garlic and herbs. The potatoes that have been added to the stew will boil hard, resulting in a thick stew with meat. If desired, the stew meat can be sautéed with a little bacon. Irish stew is a rather high-calorie dish: 100 g contains 441.5 Kcal. Nutritional value: fats - 17, 3 g, carbohydrates - 9, 6 g, protein - 53, 2 g.