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McCain’s Favourite Winter Warming Recipes – Beef Stew

28 Jul

McCain’s Winter-Warming Selection

I LOVE a good stew! The cold winter months are the ideal opportunity to indulge in your favourite warming recipes bringing satisfying nourishment to your family mealtimes. Create wonderfully warm family moments with delicious filling stews, casseroles, pot pies and soups. McCain has a range of vegetables and mixes, which are perfect additions to any warming meal and the McCain Stew Mix makes preparing a hearty stew quick and easy without compromising on taste.

McCain Stew Mix includes diced carrots, diced broccoli stems, diced potatoes and whole green peas, and comes in a 600g pack that allows you to cater for a big family or to simply store for another day. Because McCain vegetables are already cleaned, peeled and chopped, there is less waste, and fuss – making it easier to provide scrumptious meals the whole family will love.

McCain’s selection of tasty frozen vegetables and potatoes contain all the locked in goodness from the farm. With a wide variety to choose from, you can get creative and incorporate vegetables at every meal making sure your family is getting the recommended five servings of vegetables and fruit per day.

Below are some of McCain’s favourite winter warming recipes to chase away those winter chills.

Visit www.mccain.co.za for a selection of delicious recipes.

Beef Stew with McCain Mixed Vegetables and McCain Garden Mix

Yield: 4 servings

 

Cooking time: 1 hour 15 minutes

 Ingredients:

500g                       Beef cubes

100g                       McCain Chef’s Solution Diced Onion

1                              Garlic cloves, minced

15g                         Butter

60g                         Celery stalks, chopped

60g                         McCain Diced Carrots

500ml                    Beef stock*

10ml                      Tomato paste

1                              Bay leaf

5ml                         Paprika

5ml                         Parsley, dried

2                              Tomatoes, chopped

50ml                      Red wine*

600ml                    Water

50g                         McCain Mixed Vegetables, quartered

50g                         McCain Garden Mix, quartered

TT                           Salt

TT                           Pepper

Method:

1.       Begin by browning off the beef cubes, until they resemble a deep golden brown and remove the meat from the pot and set aside for later use

2.       In the same pot, fry off the onion, garlic, celery and carrots

3.       Add the tomato paste and the beef stock and cook

4.       Add the bay leaves; paprika and parsley, mix through before adding the chopped tomatoes to the pot

5.       Allow the tomatoes time to breakdown and soften

6.       Deglaze* the pot with the red wine and reduce

7.       Add the water and the meat and simmer for 45 minutes stirring occasionally

8.       Stir in the McCain Mixed Vegetables and McCain Garden Mix and cook until tender

9.       Season well with salt and pepper and serve hot

Serving suggestion:  Serve with rice or mashed potatoes

Enjoy and keep warm.

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McCain’s Favourite Winter Warming Recipes – McCain Vegetable Pot Pie

24 Jun

Yield: approximately 4 servings

Cooking time: 30-45 minutes

 

Filling:

2 Tbsp.    Olive Oil

100 g   McCain Chef’s Solution Diced Onion

1    Garlic, clove, minced

½ cup    Celery, chopped

½ cup   Leek, medium, chopped

½ cup   Fennel, chopped

500 g   Mushrooms, thinly sliced

2 Tbsp   Flour

1 Lt    Vegetable Stock

500 g   McCain Stew Mix

Small handful  Parsley, chopped

To Taste  Salt

To Taste   Pepper

 

Pastry:

1 Rolls   Puff Pastry

25-50 ml  Egg wash (equal amount egg and milk)

 

Method:

  1. Heat oil in large pot over medium heat. Add McCain Chef’s Solution Diced Onion, garlic, celery, leek, fennel and sauté until soft
  2. Add the mushrooms and cook until soft and then add the flour and cook for 1-2 minutes
  3. Add the vegetable stock, cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer 10 minutes
  4. Remove from heat and stir in the McCain Stew Mix, parsley and season with salt and pepper and allow to cool
  5. Preheat oven to 180C.  Roll out puff pastry and cut disks big enough to line a pie dish
  6. Divide the pie filling between the pie dish/s and top with the pastry lid
  7. Brush with egg wash and cut a small hole in the top
  8. Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes or until the pastry is cooked and golden brown

 

All that’s left to do is ENJOY!

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McCain’s Favourite Winter Warming Recipes – McCain Lamb Pot Pie

30 Sep

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What the hell happened to Spring??? Up here in the Highveld, it feels like another winter day and that’s making me wish for comfort food. So I decided that tonight we will have something warm and delicious. Here’s a really great and easy to follow recipe for Lamb Pot pie. Enjoy

Yield: Approximately 4 servings

Cooking time: 60-75 minutes

Filling:

500g   Lamb, Cubes

To Taste  Salt

To Taste  Pepper

100 g   Flour

2 Tbsp   Olive Oil

1 Tbsp   Butter

100 g   McCain Chef’s Solution Diced Onion

1    Garlic, clove, minced

1 cup    Celery + Leek, chopped

50 g    Tomato Paste

100 ml   Red Wine (*Optional)

1 Lt    Beef Stock

1   Tomato, chopped

5 Sprigs   Rosemary

Small Handful  Parsley

1   Bay Leaf

500 g    McCain Stew Mix

Pastry:

1 Roll   Puff Pastry

25-50 ml  Egg wash (equal amount egg and milk)

Method:

  1. Season the lamb cubes with salt and pepper and dust with the flour
  2. Heat oil and butter in a large pot over high heat and seal the lamb in batches until golden brown remove and keep aside for later use
  3. In the same pot add the McCain Chef’s Solution Diced Onion, garlic, celery, leek and cook until soft
  4. Add the tomato paste and cook for 1 to 2 minutes
  5. Deglaze with the red wine, add the beef stock and bring to the boil
  6. Add the lamb cubes, rosemary, parsley, bay leaf and bring to the boil, turn down the heat to low and simmer until the lamb is soft, but not falling apart
  7. Remove from heat, stir in the McCain Stew Mix, season with salt and pepper and allow to cool
  8. Preheat oven to 180C.  Roll out puff pastry and cut disks big enough to line a pie dish/s
  9. Divide the pie filling between the pie dish/s and top with the pastry lid
  10. Brush with egg wash and cut a small hole in the top
  11. Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes or until the pastry is cooked and golden brown
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