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Ingredients
- • 2 sticks of celery
- • 2 medium onions
- • 2 carrots
- • 3 sprigs of fresh rosemary oil
- • essential olive oil
- • 500g diced stewing lamb, roughly 2cm cubes
- • 1 heaped tablespoon plain flour
- • 500ml lamb stock or vegetable stock, preferably organic or dark wine*
- • 1 x 400g tin of chopped tomato plants
- • ocean salt and freshly ground pepper
To organize your stew
• If while using oven to prepare your stew, preheat it to 180C/350F/gas 4
• Trim the ends off your celery and roughly chop the sticks
• Peel the carrots, slice lengthways and roughly chop
• Pick and roughly chop the rosemary oil leaves, discard the stalks
To prepare your stew
• Place a casserole pan on the medium heat
• Invest the vegetables and rosemary oil leaves in to the pan with 2 lugs of essential olive oil and fry for ten minutes
• Incorperate your meat and flour
To prepare your stew
• Pour within the stock or dark wine and tinned tomato plants
• Provide a great stir, then season having a teaspoon of ocean salt (less if using table salt) along with a couple of grinds of pepper
• Provide the boil, place the lid on and only simmer gradually in your hob or prepare within an oven for 21/2 hrs
To prepare your stew
• Take away the lid for that final 30 minutes of simmering or cooking and give a a little water whether it looks a little dry
• When done, your meat ought to be tender and scrumptious
• Make sure to taste it before serving to find out if it requires a little more pepper and salt
To prepare your stew
If you are cooking in your own home then you might like to use dark wine rather of stock - this gives your stew a significantly more potent colour, much like within the pictures
Recipe Jamie Oliver
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