I have achieved Superior Stew!

[highlyeccentric]

Here is a recipe for the Superior Stew which I concocted (disclaimer: this is the only stew i have ever eaten, so "superior" is a bit of a misnomer). It's something of a work in progress - see notes at end for Good Ideas We Intend To Apply To Stew.



~500 grams of gravy beef, cubed
2 or more onions, chopped
2 or more cloves of garlic, chopped
1-2tsp of curry paste
5 large potatoes, peeled and cubed
2 cans of beans (we used one red kidney bean and one four bean mix)
Lentils (uh... I think I used about half a cup?)
2 cups of beef stock (actually i used three, but that was too many)

Fry the onion and garlic until sweet
Add curry paste
Toss in the potato cubes and stir around until coated in curry paste.

Transfer to slow cooker. Add beans and lentils.
Add some oil to the frying pan (which is now all weird from the curry) and brown the meat - it should absorb the curry residue. Add to slow cooker.
Add the beef stock, cover and cook all day.* Thicken with cornflour mix if necessary. Season with pepper.

*We cooked it for seven hours on and it was almost perfect, except the potatoes weren't smushy enough. I'm thinking you should give it an hour or two on high at some point during the day for the sake of potatoes

Good Ideas We Have:
- I really wanted to make this with parsnip but couldn't FIND any
- Leeks would probably suit; likewise carrot
- Maybe large chunks of onion and/or whole cloves of garlic (they should sweeten with cooking)