More Or Less Mexican Harvest Stew Food

MEXICAN CHICKEN STEW

Steps:

• Heat oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and saute for 1 to 2 minutes. Add garlic and jalapeno and sweat until soft and translucent. Add spices and cook for 1 to 2 minutes until fragrant and aromatic. Add tomatoes, chicken, Worcestershire, and stock.
• Bring to a simmer and cook 20 minutes.
• Cut the lime in half, squeeze juice into the pot, and then add the juiced halves as well.
• Add white rice and cook 5 minutes longer to warm rice through. Season, to taste, with salt.
• Ladle into bowls and garnish with sour cream and cilantro.

MEXICAN BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F.
• Stem and seed the chiles and place in a pot with beef stock over high heat. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer gently to reconstitute (see Cook's Note).
• Heat a large Dutch oven with a drizzle of oil over medium-high heat, and add the bacon to the pan and stir until crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon. Pat the meat dry, season with a little salt and lots of black pepper, then add to the bacon drippings and brown evenly to caramelize the meat. Brown the meat in 2 batches if necessary in order not to crowd the pan. Remove the meat and add another drizzle of oil, if necessary. Add the onions, and garlic and soften a few minutes. Stir in the cumin, coriander, cocoa, cinnamon, and cloves, and stir to toast the spices and combine. Deglaze the pan with beer and evaporate.
• In a food processor, puree the softened peppers and stock with tomatoes. Pour into the pot, slide the browned meat and bacon back in, and drizzle in the honey. Cover the pot and transfer to the oven for 2 1/2 hours or until the meat falls apart with a fork. Cool and store for a make-ahead meal. Reheat over medium heat and add the lime juice just before serving.
• Garnish with sour cream and fresh cilantro leaves, and serve with tortillas or rice and warm black beans.

MEXICAN BEEF STEW

Steps:

• In a 5-qt. slow cooker, combine the first 11 ingredients. Cut roast in half; transfer to slow cooker., Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours or until meat and vegetables are tender., Remove meat; cool slightly. Cut meat into bite-sized pieces and return to slow cooker; heat through. Serve with sour cream.

MEXICAN STEW

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven or large soup kettle over medium-high heat, brown meat on all sides in 1 teaspoon oil; drain. Remove meat and keep warm. , In the same pan, saute the onion, celery, jalapeno and garlic in remaining oil until tender. Stir in the water, chili powder, brown sugar, cumin, salt and pepper. Return meat to pan. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30 minutes., Stir in the tomato paste, beans and tomatoes. Return to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 20 minutes longer or until meat is tender and beans are heated through. Sprinkle with cilantro.

MORE OR LESS MEXICAN HARVEST STEW

Steps:

• Put the sausage in a large nonreactive saucepan or small kettle over low heat and cook until a bit of fat is released. Raise the heat slightly and cook, stirring, until the sausage is browned and most of the fat is rendered. Remove and reserve the sausage; pour off all but a thin film of the fat.
• Add the onion and cook, stirring often, until it is golden brown. Stir in the beans and beer, lower the heat, and simmer for 20 minutes or until the beans are almost tender.
• Stir in the jalapenos and tomatillos, turn up the heat to medium, and cook, stirring often, until the liquid just peeks through the vegetables. Add the corn, sweet peppers, 1/2 cup of the cream, oregano, cumin, cloves, and reserved cooked sausage. Stir well, lower the heat to simmer, cover the panand let everything get acquainted for about 20 minutes.
• Uncover the pan, add the remaining cream, the coriander and the garlic. Simmer just long enough to take the raw edge off the garlic, then add salt and serve at once, topped with the shredded lettuce.

HARVEST BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Heat bacon grease in a large pot over medium heat.
• Combine flour with salt and pepper. Coat beef cubes.
• Brown meat in the bacon grease until nicely browned. Remove to a paper towel, and set aside.
• Heat olive oil in the same pot. Cook onions, garlic, carrots, and celery over low heat. Add the vinegar and sugar. Pour in the broth and bring to a boil. Deglaze the pan by scraping off the food stuck on the bottom of the pot.
• Return meat to pot. Pour in beer, then stir in parsnips, turnips, red potatoes, parsley, and bay leaves. Reduce heat to medium low. Cover and simmer for 90 minutes, stirring occasionally.

PIG IN THE ORCHARD HARVEST STEW

Steps:

• Peel and cut up potatoes into 8 pieces.
• Peel, core and chop apple.
• Peel and cut up the squash, carrots and parsnip into 3/4 " chunks.
• Place all of the above into slow cooker.
• Cube boneless pork (@ 3/4 inch chunks).
• Combine 3 tbls flour, salt ,and pepper.
• Toss with meat.
• Peel and slice onions.
• Heat up a skillet or saute pan.
• Fry bacon on med heat until almost crispy.
• Remove bacon strips and set aside.
• Sear seasoned pork in the bacon fat on medium high heat until lightly browned.
• Transfer pork to slow cooker (on top of vegetables).
• Lower heat in skillet to medium.
• Saute onions and garlic in pan drippings until translucent.
• Add them to the slow cooker.
• Combine apple cider, broth, vermouth and vinegar & pour over meat.
• Cover, cook on low for 8-9 hours.
• Turn cooker to high.
• Blend 1/4 cup flour and 1/2 cup cold water, blend well.
• Scoop out pork and vegetables.
• Stir flour and water slurry into liquid in crockpot.
• Cover, cook 15 minutes or until thickened.
• Season to taste.
• Pour over meat and vegetables.
• Crumble in bacon.
• Serve hot with bread or rolls.

THREE SISTERS HARVEST STEW

Steps:

• In a large stew pot, heat the olive oil.
• Add the onion and stir to coat with oil.
• Saute until golden, then add garlic, carrot, squash, beans, corn, sage, chipotle, and salt. Add broth a bit at a time until you are satisfied with the consistency.
• Simmer until squash is tender, then add chopped parsley and stir.
• Serve hot.
• I often sustitute a 10 oz. package of frozen pureed squash for the cubed squash for a smoother texture.