Best Traditional Irish Stew Recipes

TRADITIONAL IRISH GUINNESS STEW

Steps:

• In a large glass bowl, combine Guinness, mustard, rosemary, and bay leaves.
• Add the beef cubes, stir in, cover, leave to marinate in the fridge overnight.
• Preheat oven to 325°F or 160°C.
• Drain the meat and keep the marinate to one side for later.
• On a plate or chopping board, sprinkle the flour and season to your tastes. I recommend just a bit of salt and pepper and a touch of rosemary.
• Cover the beef cubes in the flour and set aside.
• In a large skillet, melt butter and brown the meat 3-5 minutes each side. Transfer this to a casserole dish and do not clean the skillet (this retains flavours released by the beef).
• Add the remaining butter to the skillet, when foamy add the onions and cook until brown and/or tender. Add these to the casserole dish.
• Repeat this step for all other vegetables, only adding butter when necessary. Each vegetable should be cooked until tender. This will take a maximum of 5 minutes.
• Add the vegetables to the casserole dish followed by the marinate and beef stock.
• Cook for 1.5-2 hours or until meat is tender. Stir occasionally. The Guinness will reduce a lot, but if it looks too dehydrated you can add more.
• Taste occasionally, and if it is too sharp you can add sugar to cut the taste.

TRADITIONAL IRISH STEW

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add beef; cook until evenly browned, 3 to 5 minutes per side.
• Place potatoes, carrots, onion, and garlic in a slow cooker; top with browned beef.
• Pour 1/4 cup beer into the same skillet and bring to a boil while scraping the browned bits of beef off of the bottom of the skillet with a wooden spoon. Stir in tomato paste; cook until thickened, about 5 minutes. Pour beer mixture into slow cooker.
• Pour beef broth, remaining beer, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, salt, and pepper into slow cooker.
• Cook on Low for 8 hours.

TRADITIONAL IRISH STEW WITH PEARL BARLEY

Steps:

• Start off by trimming and cutting away excess fat off the meat.
• Pat the pieces dry and in a bowl toss them with flour.
• In a heavy-based saucepan, over high heat, heat 2 tbsp olive oil and brown the meat pieces in small batches and then remove and set aside in a bowl.
• In the same saucepan, over medium heat add in the rest of the olive oil and add in the chopped onions, garlic and bay leaves and saute till translucent, takes about 10 minutes.
• Return the browned meat pieces to the pot and add in the dried thyme and give it all a good stir.
• Sprinkle pearl barley on top and pour in all of the stock and season with salt and pepper.
• Increase the heat and bring it to a simmering point.
• Spoon off any scum that rises to the surface, then cover the pan with a well-fitting lid and leave to simmer over a low heat for an hour, stirring occasionally.
• After the hour is up, spoon off scum if any and then add in the potatoes and carrots and give all a good stir and leave it cook for another hour.
• Carefully stir in 2 tbsp of chopped parsley and take it off heat.
• Garnish with the remaining 1 tbsp of chopped parsley and serve!

TRADITIONAL IRISH STEW THE BAILEY

Steps:

• In a 7 to 8-quart kettle simmer lamb, parsley, thyme, and salt and pepper to taste in 4 cups broth, covered, 1 1/2 hours.
• To lamb mixture add potatoes, onion, carrots, celery, and remaining 2 cups broth and simmer, covered, 1 hour.
• In a small bowl whisk together flour and oil until smooth and stir into simmering stew until well incorporated.
• Simmer stew, uncovered, until thickened, 3 to 5 minutes, and season with salt and pepper.

TRADITIONAL IRISH STEW

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 225 F. Put flour into a large Ziploc bag and season well with salt and pepper. Add your lamb and shake well to coat. Do this in batches if necessary. Arrange the lamb in the bottom of a flameproof dutch oven.
• 2. Layer your onions, carrots and potatoes on top of the lamb.
• 3. Sprinkle in the thyme and pour in the beef stock. Cover and cook in preheated oven for 7-8 hours. Garnish with the parsley and serve straight from your dutch oven.

TRADITIONAL IRISH STEW

Steps:

• 1. To make Irish stew, gather all the ingredients. They will be assembled in layers in a large stew pot.
• 2. Begin with layers of sliced potatoes, onions, and carrots.
• 3. Top with a layer of Canadian bacon and lamb.
• 4. Sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper.
• 5. Repeat these steps until all the ingredients are used.
• 6. Add enough water to just cover the ingredients.
• 7. Arrange the halved potatoes on top of the stew, so they can steam as the rest is cooking.
• 8. Simmer over a very low heat for about 2 hours.
• 9. Sprinkle liberally with the chopped parsley and serve in soup bowls.