Irish Lamb or Beef Stew

  • Prep Time: 30 mins
  • Total Time: 2 hrs 30 mins
  • Yield: 2.5Quarts

    • About This Recipe

    “Although I usually reserve making this in the winter months, we love this anytime. Easy and a good comfort food.”

    Ingredients

  • 1cup Burgundy wine or 1cupdry red wine
  • 1garlic clove, minced
  • 2bay leaves
  • 1teaspoonsalt
  • 1/2 teaspoonpepper
  • 1/4 teaspoondried whole thyme
  • 3lbslamb( can substitute lean beef for stewing)
  • 1/4 cupolive oil
  • 2 (10ounce) cans beef broth, undiluted
  • 6carrots, cut into 2-inch, slices
  • 12smallboiling onions
  • 6mediumpotatoes, peeled and halved

    • Directions

  • Combine first 6 ingredients.
  • Pour over meat in a shallow dish.
  • Cover and refrigerate for at least 6-8 hours.
  • Drain meat, reserving marinade.
  • Discard bay leaves.
  • Heat oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat; brown meat in oil.
  • Add consomme and reserved marinade; bring to a boil.
  • Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 1 1/2 hours.
  • Add carrots, onions, and potatoes; cover and cook another 30 minutes.

    • Reviews

  • “Made this for dinner last night. It was fantastic. I used beef instead of lamb and the marinade gave it a wonderful flavor. Very easy to make and so tasty too.”

  • “YUM! It’s really cold today and I was so happy to have this wonderful & warming dish for dinner this evening. I only had 1.3 lbs of beef stew meat (I couldn’t find lamb) so I halved all of the other ingredients. DB likes his stew thick so I did what Wildflour did to thicken it but.. it was more like 1 TBSP. YUMM DB asked me to make a huge batch and freeze it.”

  • “I’m under the weather right now, so my hubby is rating this for you! 🙂 He says..”REALLY, really good…and when can you make this again?!” 🙂 He’s extrememly picky, so when he says it’s that good, believe me…IT IS!!!! 🙂 I only subbed Ocean Spray Cran-Grape juice for the wine, and thickened it at the end with 2 Tbl. cornstarch mixed with 2 Tbl. cold water. And that was just a personal preferance. Oh, and I did cut up the veggies just a bit, that too was just a pref, though. (And I did use lamb, and he said it was WONDERFUL!!!!) Thanks so much for such a great (and easy to make!) recipe!!:) :)”

  • “the best ..miam miam “

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