In a modern lamb stew, the meat is browned first to give colour.

Irish stew is a traditional Irish dish made from lamb, beef or mutton, (mutton is used as it comes from less tender sheep over a year old and is fattier and more flavourful) as well as potatoes, carrots, onions, and parsley.^[1]. The essence of Irish stew is summed up in the recipe's entry in The Joy of Cooking: "This famous stew is not browned."

More recently, stouts have been added to provide extra flavor.

[edit] Recipe

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Ingredients
4 litres of water.
1 lb of stewing beef.
1 lb lean mince beef.
4 med size carrots.
2 med size onions.
A tablespoon of dried mixed herbs.
2 large celerys.
5 med size potatoes + a med size pot of mashed potatoes.
2 stock cubes, or 1 pint of homemade/prepared stock.
Black pepper.

Method

Boil the stewing beef alone for about 1 hour.

Brown the mince.

Strain off most of the fat.

Chop the vegetables to spoon size.

Put all ingredients in a big pot including the stock, and bring to boil and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.

Then serve over the mashed potatoes.

[edit] In popular culture

• Irish stew appears in a famous sequence in the novel Three Men in a Boat, in which the narrator falsely claims that "Irish stew" consists of whatever leftovers one can find.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Scouse
• Scotch broth
• Lancashire Hotpot
• List of Ireland-related topics