Poor Stew
December 10, 2005 mains, red meat
Ah har har! Your poor chunk stew.
On Friday night I put my card in the ATM machine and had no money. I remember going to transfer that money… I was sure I ….
This weekend there will be no dinner parties…. Just a cheep arse stew! My eating criteria is: a) can be eaten for three days, b) isn’t high in fat and c) tastes good… … oh! and of course – d) its cheep.
Serves :4
Prep: 30 min
Cook time: 45 min
Ingredients:
An onion
3 carrots chunked
2 potatoes chunked
500g of gravy beef or chunk stake
A teaspoon of chopped rosemary
1 cup of veggie stock liquid
2x tins of tomatoes peeled and seeded
50g of tomato paste
1 400g tin of lentils
Two cloves of garlic
¼ teaspoon of lemon zest
Salt and Pepper to taste
Cal: 498 per serve
It ain’t no gourmet stew but its yummy, budget, hardy and volumesome.
1. Dice your onion and chunk the vegetables.
2. In a large pan sauté the onion for a few minutes before adding the carrot and potato. (of course celery would have been lovely here – but that was another dollar!)
3. Dice and add the beef to the pot and stir through with the rosemary until the meat has browned
4. Preheat the oven to 180ºC
5. Add the veggie stock fluid, two cans of tomatoes and the tomato paste, bring to the boil then simmer for 15 – 20 minutes until the vegetables are soft.
6. Add the lentils, garlic and lemon zest to the pot and stir through.
7. Move the pot into the oven and bake for a further 20 minutes or so. Once the meat is tender it is ready to serve, the sauce should have thickened by now as well making for a nice chunky and hardy stew.