How To Cook Traditional Irish Stew

  • Prep time
  • Cook time
  • Difficulty easy
  • Serves 4
traditional irish stew

Ingredients

  • Ingredients
  • 500g diced lamb (I used shoulder for this version)
  • 2 onions thickly sliced
  • 500ml lamb or poultry stock (hot)
  • 350g old crop potatoes peeled & cut into large even chunks
  • 350g small waxy potatoes peeled & cut in half
  • 300g carrots peeled & cut into large pieces
  • few sprigs of fresh thyme
  • Sea salt & white pepper
  • Chopped parsley to finish

traditional irish stew

Cooking method

  1. Preheat oven to 140°C for fan assisted or 160°C for ovens without a fan (gas 3)
  2. In an oven proof dish bring the stock to a simmer, add the lamb & skim away any white foam that rises to the surface
  3. Add the onion, carrot & old crop potatoes, top up with water if required then cover & cook in the oven or on the stove top gently simmering for 1 hour
  4. Add the waxy potatoes & thyme then continue to cook until they are also cooked & tender approximately 1 more hour
  5. Finally, fold through chopped parsley & season to taste

to serve

Serve with soda bread or dumplings & pickled red cabbage.

Note for a thicker stock you can blend a little stock with some old crop potato then gently stir through the pot.

How To Cook Traditional Irish Stew