Amish Beef Stew Food

ABSOLUTELY THE BEST AMISH BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Melt shortening over high heat in a large pot or dutch oven.
• Add beef cubes and brown over medium heat, stirring occasionally, about 15-20 minutes.
• Add onions, boiling water, salt, lemon juice, sugar, worcestershire sauce, pepper, paprika, allspice and cloves.
• Simmer, tightly covered, for about 2 hours, stirring occasionally.
• Add vegetables and simmer another 30 minutes (covered), or until tender.
• Note: if your lid is not tight on the pot, you may not have enough liquid left to just about cover everything after you add the veggies.
• If this is the case, add more water to barely cover ingredients.
• Mix cold water and flour together and blend until smooth.
• Push meat and veggies to the side of the pot and add flour mixture slowly, incorporating into liquid.
• When gravy thickens, stir all ingredients gently to distribute gravy evenly.
• Simmer another 5 or 10 minutes and enjoy!

AMISH COUNTRY CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Combine ground beef, onion, and bell pepper in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir until vegetables are tender and beef is browned and cooked through, 10 to 15 minutes. Season mixture with salt and pepper while cooking.
• Meanwhile, fill a 5-quart Dutch oven or other oven-safe pot with lightly salted water and bring to a rapid boil. Cook egg noodles at a boil until tender yet firm to the bite, 7 to 9 minutes. Drain noodles and return to the pot.
• Add diced tomatoes, condensed soup, cottage cheese, sour cream, and Worcestershire sauce to the egg noodles; stir to blend. Stir in ground beef mixture until evenly combined. Taste and adjust seasonings. Sprinkle Cheddar cheese over the top.
• Bake uncovered in the preheated oven until heated through and cheese is melted and golden, 25 to 30 minutes. Serve immediately.

AMISH CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add egg noodles and cook until tender, about 7 minutes. Drain and return to the pan. Mix in the cream of chicken soup until noodles are coated.
• Crumble the ground beef into a large skillet over medium-high heat. Drain the grease, and stir in the tomato soup, brown sugar, pepper and salt. Spread half of the beef in the bottom of a greased 2 1/2 quart casserole dish. Arrange 5 slices of cheese over the beef. Top with half of the noodles, then repeat layers ending with cheese on top.
• Bake for 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until cheese is browned and sauce is bubbly.

AMISH POOR MAN'S STEAK

Steps:

• Mix ground beef, milk, saltine cracker crumbs, onion, salt, and black pepper in a bowl. Shape mixture into a narrow loaf and place onto a baking sheet; cover and refrigerate 8 hours to overnight.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cut loaf into 1-inch-thick slices and sear the 'steaks' in the hot skillet until browned, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Insides will still be pink. Arrange slices in a roasting pan. Spread mushroom soup over steaks.
• Bake steaks in the preheated oven until mushroom soup is bubbling and meat is no longer pink inside, about 1 hour. An instant-read meat thermometer inserted into the center of a meat slice should read at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).

AMISH OVEN BEEF & NOODLE STEW

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• Dissolve beef bouillon in water in large Dutch oven.
• Add chuck roast, cloves, celery, carrots, onion, green pepper and parsley sprigs.
• Cover; bake until meat is tender, 3 hours.
• Transfer meat to cutting board.
• Shred meat into bite-size pieces.
• Remove vegetables from broth with slotted spoon; chop.
• Return meat and vegetables to broth.
• Stir in uncooked noodles, salt and pepper; cover.
• Bake until noodles are tender, stirring once, about 30 minutes.
• Add additional water if noodles absorb all of broth.
• Sprinkle with chopped parsley.

AMISH CABBAGE PATCH STEW

Steps:

• brown the meat in a dutch oven and drain.
• add onions, celery cabbage and cook until wilted.
• add water worcestershire sauce, chili powder, salt and sugar.
• add tomatoes and beans.
• Cover and cook 30 minutes.

AMISH COUNTRY STEW

Steps:

• Add all ingredients to slow cooker, except parsley.
• Stir to combine.
• Cook on low for 5-6 hours, without stirring.
• Add parsley just before serving.
• This can be made in the oven:.
• Preheat oven to 300.
• Combine all ingredients in a roasting pan, except parsley.
• Bake covered without stirring for 5 hours.
• Add parsley. Enjoy!