Tips for Making Delicious Stew Recipes
Stews are very popular, especially when the weather is cool, and you want something warming and tasty. A stew is a combination of solid foods, usually meat, or fish with vegetables that have been simmered or cooked slowly in a liquid sauce to allow the flavors to combine well. The sauce is served as well as its contents.
Common stew ingredients include meat, chicken, seafood, fish, potatoes, carrots, beans, and fruit. Wine, water, beer, or bouillons are commonly used as the stew liquid and seasonings help to add more flavor.
Soup and Stew – What is the Difference?
Stewing is a good cooking method to use on tough cuts of meat because stewing is the only way to tenderize them. Stews contain large pieces of meat or fish and vegetables. Soups contain smaller pieces, if any.
Soup is usually served as an appetizer and stew is served as a main course. Stew always contains chunky ingredients and more solids than liquid. Soup is mostly liquid and is served in a bowl or deep dish. Chunky stews can be served on a plate.
How to Make Stew More Interesting
Combining meat, vegetables and water will make a stew but not a very interesting one! There are a few things to know if you want to make your stews tasty.
You can use different combinations of meat; fish, herbs, vegetables, and spices in stew recipes because the dish is so versatile. It is a good idea to season the meat with salt and pepper and sear it in a hot pan before adding it to the liquid.
You can roll the raw meat in flour too for a thicker stew. Make sure the meat chunks are browned all over before adding them to the stew liquid, so they retain their juices. This applies to chicken stew as well as beef stew or any other kind of meat you are going to use.
The next step in making an exciting stew is to saut some vegetables in the pan, then add water, wine, juice, broth or whichever liquid you are using and scrape the bottom of the pan to incorporate any stuck on bits into the liquid. Put the meat back into the pan and cook slowly.
You should check the pan periodically to see if you need to add more liquid or seasoning or give it a stir. When the stew is done, you might want to throw in some cider, lemon juice, crispy crumbled bacon or parsley to brighten up the overall flavor. You can serve it in big bowls accompanied by warm bread to mop up the juices.
Stew is a lot of fun to make and it is also very easy. Whether you want to make a green chile chicken stew or an authentic Irish stew, as long as you bear the above tips in mind your stew should come out great.
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