Serious Mealtimes / Vicky Wasik
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The BEST Beef Stew Recipe – Hundreds of 5 Star Reviews!!
I’ve only set foot on Irish soil once in my life and it was for less than an hour. I was flying back from Italy with my girlfriend Kate and we had a three-hour layover in Dublin just long enough to be a drag. After some quick calculations we figured out that we could hop on a bus from the airport to Dublin city center stay there for no more than 30 minutes and then race back just in time for our flight to New York. “That’s a lot better than sitting in this terminal for the next few hours” I said. “Let’s go get a Guinness!”
As soon as we got off the bus we headed straight for the first pub we came across grabbed a table ordered two pints of plain and a plate of stew and devoured it all as quickly as we could. We were in such a hurry that I can't even remember whether there was beef or lamb in the stew but to be honest it was a pretty unremarkable plate of food. One thing I do know is that the gravy was dark brown in colour which means it was probably Guinness stew and not the lighter and more generically named "Irish" stew which in its simplest form is made of little more than lamb onion potato and water.
Guinness stew at least has the advantage of being a little more interesting than a water-based stew. But as I quickly discovered when I tested this recipe it still doesn’t add much. In the world of stouts Guinness is remarkably light-bodied. Cook it for a few hours and what little bitterness and character it has disappears into an Irish mist… no whiskey required.
