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My Favourite One-Pot Spring Vegetables Stew

My Favourite One-Pot Spring Vegetables Stew

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by Maria Teresa Jorge

My Favourite One-Pot Spring Vegetables Stew

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by Maria Teresa Jorge

My Favourite One-Pot Spring Vegetables Stew

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by Maria Teresa Jorge

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    Maria Teresa Jorge's Notes: I confess that I like this stew so much that I even male it in winter with frozen peas. But the glorious thing about this stew is making it when all the new vegetables arrive in Spring and...

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Serves 6-8

  1. Season the meat with salt and 1 teaspoon of chilli powder and set aside.

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  2. Prepare all your vegetables in different bowls and set aside. There are vegetables diced very small for the brunoise to cook with the meat and you have another list of spring vegetables cut in medium sized cubes that are added after the meat is cooked so keep them seperated. Add cold water to the potatoes so they don’t turn black.

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  3. In a heavy pan with a tight fitting lid (type dutch oven), melt the olive oil and butter with the bay leaf.

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  4. Add the minced onions, the bay leaves, carrots, garlic, parsley with the stalks and celery to the pan and cook for 2 or 3 minutes, stirring until the onion is translucent.

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  5. Add the meat and brown on all sides.

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  6. Deglaze the pan with the white wine, stir well with a wooden spatula to dislodge any pieces stuck to the pan and let the wine reduce completely, meaning, there won't be any wine left in the pan.

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  7. Add the hot stock to 2/3 of the height of the meat, season "lightly" with salt and the remaining chilli powder.

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  8. Cook with lid on for 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours over minimum heat or until the meat is very tender, stirring from time to time and adding more warm stock if needed but never over 2/3 of the height of the meat.

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  9. Add the turnips, baby carrots, leeks, pearl onions and potatoes and stir. Cook for 8 to 10 minutes with lid on, adding more vegetable stock if needed but keep it quite restricted. You want the sauce now to thicken with the starch of the potatoes.

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  10. At the last minute add the peas and cook another 3 or 4 minutes without the lid, until the potatoes are completely done.

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  11. Discard the bay leaves and the parsley, check the seasoning and serve immediately.

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3 Comments on My Favourite One-Pot Spring Vegetables Stew

Picture_11 Reply

Just wanted to let you know that I made this last night and it's delicious! We had to brown the meat in a different pan because even though my dutch oven is enormous, there was too much moisture in it with all the brunoise vegetables for the meat to brown properly, but after we did that, we threw it back in the pot and continued on our way. I added more wine and didn't add as much chipotle because we wanted that in the background flavors-oh, and I used veal, after all! So easy, that I don't need a recipe for this anymore. Thank you!

Picture_11 Reply

I love the idea of throwing everything in together. How can it not be delicious? And nice touch with the chili powder. I think I'll make a chicken version of this on the weekend.

Teresa_food52 Reply

It's very good with chicken, just shorten the cooking time. It comes out very light. Thank you for the comment.

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