Does anyone have a decent recipe for stovies please?!
Does anyone have a decent recipe for stovies please?
Answers: 3 lbs tatties (potatoes)
1 large onion or 2 small
1 lb steak mince or lamb
or diced pieces of meat
2 ozs beef dripping or lard
or butter or olive oil
1/2 pint of water
Meat stock cube or veg
Salt to taste, and Pepper
You don't have to be exact with the quantities
Chop the onions into a pot, add fat, and gently cook for 4-5 mins until soft. Add meat, stir into the onions and cook until a light brown. Peel, slice and dice your potatoes as you'd normally do. Add them into the pot with the onions and meat. Chuck in the water, stock, salt, pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer for 30 minutes with the lid on, shaking or stirring the pot occasionally to make sure it doesn't all stick. Cook until the potatoes are soft (push a table knife through a piece to test). Don't worry if the bottom layer is a bit burnt as this adds to the flavour of the rest. Mmmm Source(s):
Born & Bred Scot !! Ingredients:
4 oz cold, diced lamb (two-thirds of a cup)
1? lb potatoes, peeled and sliced. Some people use alternate thin and thicker slices - the thin ones then turn to mush.
1 (or two if you prefer) large onion, very thinly sliced.
1 level tablespoon good quality dripping (from meat or bacon). If dripping is not available, cooking oil will do (though not as good a flavour).
Stock or water
Salt and pepper, nutmeg or all-spice for seasoning
Chopped parsley or chives
Method:
Melt the dripping in a large pan (preferably with a tight fitting lid), add a layer of sliced potatoes, then a layer of onion and next a layer of meat. Add enough stock or water to cover (though some prefer their stovies dry, in which case add only 2-3 tablespoons). Then repeat the layers once again and season the dish thoroughly - in addition to salt and plenty pepper, add some nutmeg or all-spice).
Cover and cook over a low to moderate heat (shaking the pan occasionally) for about 30 minutes or until the potatoes are tender and the liquid is absorbed. Serve with a sprinkling of chopped parsley or chives (or chervil). our house or yours?? Mmmmm Stovies.... have to make some soon ! They are sooooo good
Don't have a recipe... I just thro in tatties, onions, left over beef and gravy mmmmmmm 2 kg potatoes
2 large white onions
1 can corned beef
1 teaspoon salt
Cut potatoes roughly and add to boiling water.
Add salt.
When potatoes are soft, drain the water and mash.
Add the roughly chopped onions and all the corn beef and mash all ingredients together.
return to low heat stirring continuously.
After 10 minutes it should be ready.
SOME SHOULD HAVE BURNT TO THE POT (THE BEST BIT) BUT MAKES WASHING THE POT A PAIN!!! True 'stovies' doesn't have a recipe as it made up of left overs of meat (or a stew) and potato. Just add some onions, some beef of lamb stock, a little flour to thicken, pepper and salt and that's it. Anything fancier and it just isn't stovies!
It is best served with oatcakes and a malt whisky in front of a log fire.