Dad's Easy Irish Stew Recipe To Make NOW

hey kids so today I'm going to show you how to make Irish stew but first I have a dad joke for you so why did the stew go to therapy it had some beef with the vegetables and needed to simmer down ah so anyway let's get started you'll need stew meat along with these [Music] vegetables melt two tablespoons of butter I'm actually using ghee now you want to sear the meat this will take you about 3 or 4 minutes [Music] [Music] now you want to cut the potatoes with these small potatoes I'm just cutting them in fourths [Music] [Music] now you want to peel the [Music] carrots I really like this style of peeler it's the one that I've had the best luck with compared to those ones that are just straight this one just seems so much easier now you want to cut the carrots chop them up whatever size you like you can make them a little bigger a little smaller whatever you [Music] [Music] like now you want to cut up the celery cel is optional but I like to add it to any stew that I make cuz it's healthy and you can make these whatever size you [Music] like now set the bowl of vegetables aside cuz we're going to add those in a little while now remove the meat from the [Music] pot chop up your garlic [Music] cut up your onion you can make these whatever size you want this is about the size that I like [Music] now melt two tablespoons of butter or ghee and then add your onions and your [Music] garlic and let that simmer for a couple [Music] minutes now we're going to add the meat back in [Music] add 1 teaspoon of ground black [Music] pepper add 2 teaspoons of salt [Music] [Music] add one teaspoon of ground thyme [Music] add about 3 and 1/2 cups of the broth basically you just want to save a little bit a half a cup or so will do do great but add most of your broth here now pour the remaining broth into a cup [Music] add one bay [Music] leaf this is optional you can add one bottle of stout beer I'm using Guinness [Music] now you're going to add one tspoon of corn starch to that leftover broth and we're going to mix that up good that'll help thicken up your stew you could leave this out if you wanted to but I like my stew a little bit thicker [Music] now add that to the stew the reason we mix it like that is so it doesn't Clump if you just added cornstarch straight to your stew it would be clumpy you don't want that [Music] now we're going to cover that and let simmer for 1 and 1/2 to 2 hours on low heat you'll want to come back and stir it periodically [Music] [Music] 2 hours later add the rest of the vegetables [Music] [Music] Now cover and let simmer for 30 minutes on low heat 30 or 40 minutes would be [Music] great looking [Music] good all right so Irish stew you can kind of make it your own you saw that I added a little corn starch to try to make it a little bit thicker uh I added celery some people don't you kind of do whatever you want I added the um the stout beer you don't have to you got options right but that's a basic stew for you but it's a basically an Irish stew so I thought since it's St Patrick's Day I'd go ahead and put this out for you anyway I think uh it's fun to do different Traditions like this and so I would encourage you to do that with your kids as your kids are growing up it's something to look forward to you don't want Traditions to dictate your life but it is fun to kind of have those Traditions throughout your your kids' lives and then that's something they can pass on to the next Generation as well so anyway I hope that was helpful for you thanks for watching and God bless you