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Irish stew
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Irish stew

15 ingredients 20 min + 40 min Serves 6 openrecipes
Irish stew

Celebrate St Patrick's Day with Richard Corrigan's Irish stew - it's big on flavour, even bigger if you make it ahead and quite literally, let it stew...

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

544
Calories
32g
Protein
22g
Fat
57g
Carbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Lamb 100g cooked 294
Potato 1 medium (173g) baked 161
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Carrot 1 medium (61g) 25
Celery 1 stalk (40g) 6
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Thyme 1 tsp dried (1.4g) 4
Bay Leaf 1 leaf (0.6g) 2
Chives 1 tbsp (3g) 1
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Meat not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 3 middle necks of lamb (about 1.8kg/4lb), filleted and boned - you need to end up with about 950g/2lb 2oz pure meat
  • 650g floury potatoes , such as King Edward
  • 650g waxy potatoes , such as Desirée or Pentland Javelin
  • 1kg carrots
  • 2 onions
  • ½ tsp fresh thyme leaves
  • chopped fresh chives and parsley, to garnish
  • bones from the lamb
  • 1 large carrot , quartered
  • 1 onion , quartered
  • ½ celery stick, quartered
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 large sprigs of thyme
  • a generous sprig of parsley
  • 6 black peppercorns , lightly crushed

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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