Simplicity Itself Meat and Potato Stew Recipe

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Simplicity Itself Meat and Potato Stew
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Ingredients
8
Count
Nutrition
844
Calories
Total time
56
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 1 -2 lb pork (any red meat works, in bite size pieces) or 1 -2 lb beef (any red meat works, in bite size pieces) or 1 -2 lb lamb ( any red meat works, in
  • 4 -6 medium potatoes (regular potato)
  • 1 large onion, diced
  • 3 -4 fresh garlic cloves (optional)
  • 2 -4 tbsp garlic powder
  • 1 -2 tbsp ground black pepper (or to taste ( i prefer heavy on the black pepper in this dish myself)
  • 6 cups water (at least enough to just cover potatoes and meat)

Directions:

  1. Use large skillet, electric skillet, or dutch oven to prepare this dish.
  2. Cut meat into bite sized chunks. Set aside.
  3. Dice onion; set aside.
  4. Peel and chop garlic; set aside.
  5. Peel potatoes (if you are going to peel them) and set aside in water so they don’t turn color.
  6. Have spices out and ready to measure with measuring spoon.
  7. In large skillet (or dutch oven), heat cooking oil to good and hot.
  8. Add chopped garlic to oil - let fry for half a minute.
  9. Add diced onions; let fry with pan covered for two to three minutes, stirring occasionally with spatula so it doesn’t burn.
  10. Add cubes of meat to hot oil with the onion and garlic. Fry all together until meat is lightly browned and mixed with onion for flavor.
  11. While meat is browning, slice the potatoes over the top of the cooking meat and onions.
  12. Mix around potato into meat/onion mixture to coat potato with flavored drippings.
  13. Add bouillon granules, spices and water. (personally, I think a fair amount of black pepper makes this dish even better, but that is only my taste, may not be yours).
  14. Turn up heat on potatoes, water, bouillon and spices and cover until it all comes back to a boil.
  15. Once boils reduce heat to medium low and cover leaving cooking heat between simmer and medium.
  16. Let cook covered for approximately 20 minutes to half hour, or until potatoes get soft.
  17. Once during cooking open lid and flip potatoes so they cook on both sides. This step is optional.
  18. This will all cook down into a nice stew.
  19. Right at end, chop about half the softened potatoes up so they will break down faster to form the gravy. Leave the other half in chunks.
  20. Stew is now ready for final taste test (adjustment of spicing).
  21. If the stew isn’t quite thick enough, mix some corn starch (two tablespoons) into very cold water (1/2 cup).
  22. Turn up heat under stew until stew begins to boil.
  23. Thicken corn starch using flat side of spatula to mix the corn starch into every corner of the liquid and evenly distribute potatoes and meat throughout resulting gravy.
  24. If too bland, add a little more bouillon granules, pepper or garlic powder as needed.
  25. Immediately reduce heat to warm setting and keep on low simmer until ready to serve.
  26. Serving suggestion: accompany stew with a nice side salad, and/it is good simply with buttered bread.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 843.89 Kcal (3533 kJ)
Calories from fat 674.51 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 74.95g 115%
Cholesterol 81.63mg 27%
Sodium 148.69mg 6%
Potassium 873.36mg 19%
Total Carbs 29.24g 10%
Sugars 5.47g 22%
Dietary Fiber 4.65g 19%
Protein 13.92g 28%
Vitamin C 4.5mg 8%
Vitamin A 1.1mg 36%
Iron 1.6mg 9%
Calcium 92.9mg 9%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 168.08 Kcal (704 kJ)
Calories from fat 134.34 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 14.93g 115%
Cholesterol 16.26mg 27%
Sodium 29.62mg 6%
Potassium 173.95mg 19%
Total Carbs 5.82g 10%
Sugars 1.09g 22%
Dietary Fiber 0.93g 19%
Protein 2.77g 28%
Vitamin C 0.9mg 8%
Vitamin A 0.2mg 36%
Iron 0.3mg 9%
Calcium 18.5mg 9%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 22.3
    Points
  • 23
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • very low sodium,
  • low cholesterol

Bad Points

  • High in Total Fat

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