Recipe - I have 500g of Beef and 500 g of Lamb

13katrina

I have 500g of cubed beef and 500g of cubed lamb.

I want to use the meat to make a casserole or stew (obviously one beef, one lamb not all in the same pot!).

Can anyone give me their os recipe (inc. oven temp and times) as I don't want to use a packet mix - they cook two quickly and IMO the flavour is never that good. I have a massive pot; so can add other ingredients such as spuds. I want the dish to serve two adults and one toddler twice - we'll eat 1/2 and freeze 1/2 for another day.

Thanks, Katrina

Angua2

Try these online databases for recipes:
http://www.taunton.com/finecooking/recipes/
http://www.epicurious.com/ (US)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/advanced_search.shtml

I think most of these allow you to search by ingredients you have to hand.

For the beef, I'd suggest either a bourguignonne or stroganoff...

For the lamb: a Moroccan-style stew, or a stew with a Greek twist to it

angelavdavis

I love making beef stew:

• Toss cubed beef in seasoned plain flour and brown in a pan with some oil added. Do in batches, put beef into large casserole (with a lid).
• Meanwhile, warm up/make up stock (1pint).
• Peel and chop 3-4 carrots, 2-3 sticks celery, good handful of button mushrooms (wash and leave whole), half a swede, large onion.
• Chop up bacon into pieces (if desired)
• Once beef cooked, cook bacon in same pan until slightly brown and then add to beef in casserole.
• Add some of the stock into the browning pan and stir to deglaze pan.
• Add veg to beef in casserole dish, adding deglazed stock mix and remaining stock with a glass of red wine (if desired) over the top of the beef/veg mix.
• Add some mixed dried herbs (or fresh if you have them) and a couple of bay leaves into the casserole, stir everything well.
• Cook for 2-3 hours in an oven (at about 170 degrees) or for 4-6 hours in slow cooker on low. Stir halfway through and add 2oz of pearl barley and dumplings (made with self-raising flour, water, olive oil, herbs and salt/pepper rolled together into small dumplings)

Season to taste before serving with mustard mash potato.

YUM!

My recipe for lamb stew is similar, except I don't brown meat first, I omit the bacon and mushrooms and add pui lentils instead of pearl barley and rosemary instead of mixed herbs.

13katrina

Thank you for the ideas, that's exactly what I needed to get going.

Will try out at the weekend in the oven but think I might need to get a slow cooker because I believe they're cheaper to run than the oven.

Thanks again.