Irish stew

Name: Irish stew
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 120 min
Total time: 140 min
Yield: 6 pots
Cuisine: irish
Ingredients: 1.2 kg Lamb, shoulder or neck, on the bone if you can; 1 kg Potato; 3 piece Onion; 2 piece Carrot; 3 tbsp Parsley; 2 tsp Salt; 1 tsp Black pepper; 1.5 l Water

stobhach

Lamb, potato, onion — a pale pot, no wine, no bouquet garni performance.

Recipe by I Want Some Food · Reviewed by the editorial kitchen. Native name preserved: stobhach.

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Prep: 20 min
Cook: 2 hr
Total: 2 hr 20 min
Difficulty: Easy
Spice: No chilli
Cost: Weeknight budget$8–16 USD · indicative, not a store price

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Source photograph of Irish stew. Not official I Want Some Food pixel artwork. — Photo: Zackgallagher via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Source

About

Irish stew is lamb or mutton on the bone, potato and onion, water, salt, a long simmer until the potatoes thicken the broth. Carrot is a later extra some houses refuse. It should not be a brown French-style stew.

Ingredients

Servings

Lamb, shoulder or neck, on the bone if you can1.2 kg
Potato1 kg
Onion3
Carrot (optional)2
Parsley44 ml
Salt9.9 ml
Black pepper4.9 ml
Water1½ l

Scaling multiplies the written quantities. Baking still prefers a scale.

Steps

Step 1
Cover lamb with water, simmer 1 hour, skim. Add onion, half the potato (to collapse), optional carrot. Simmer 40 minutes. Add remaining potato to stay in chunks. Salt, parsley.
120 min

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Substitutions

Lamb → Mutton
Deeper, longer.

Tips

Mutton is the older pot if you can get it.
Barley is a house extra. Guinness is a different stew — name it.

History & culture

The pot that fed people. Soda bread. A pint is optional and not the recipe.

A peasant pot of what was there. Restaurant 'Irish stew' with Guinness is a different, also eaten, plate.

Traditional

Provenance: Editorial adaptation. Original editorial adaptation for I Want Some Food. Not copied from another recipe site. Official recipe photography is pending. Photograph: Zackgallagher via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Traditional%20Irish%20Stew%20is%20made%20with%20Lamb%20in%20Ireland.jpg