Home » Traditional Irish Stew Traditional Irish Stew Written on March 24, 2022As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.A traditional Irish Stew recipe featuring succulent lamb, sweet root vegetables, and an irresistibly rich broth.  True to tradition, it’s made with simple ingredients but the end result is a total showstopper.  Get ready for an incredibly flavorful and robust stew that will nourish both body and soul! What is Irish Stew? If you look up “Irish Stew” recipes online you’ll see there’s a lot of confusion.Many of the recipes call for beef and many include wine or Guinness, often confusing Guinness stew with Irish stew.However the two are completely different.

Guinness Stew is a classic Irish pub dish featuring beef and, as its names suggests, Guinness.Irish stew on the other hand dates back much further to the simple cooking of peasant land workers and features mutton or lamb, a few vegetables, broth, salt and pepper, and sometimes parsley and/or a bay leaf.  Nothing more.  Simple and simply delicious, Irish Stew is the beloved national dish of Ireland.However, to claim that there is only one authentic way to make Irish stew is nonsense.

Like most peasant dishes, Irish stew was made according to what the home cook had on hand – what was growing in the garden or what was left in the root cellar.  Purists will argue that a real Irish stew consists only of mutton, onions and potatoes but the reality is that any combination of car

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