Chucks Wild Brunswick Stew Recipes

Steps:

• To prepare in a slow cooker: Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the onions and celery and cook until the onions are soft and translucent, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, 45 to 60 seconds. Transfer to a slow cooker. Add the diced tomatoes and tomato sauce. Fill the tomato sauce can with water and add to the cooker, as well. Add the chicken, pork, corn, butterbeans and potatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Turn the cooker on high and cook for 4 hours, or cook on low for 8 hours. Taste and adjust for seasoning with salt and pepper.
• To prepare on the stove: Heat the oil in a large heavy-duty pot over medium heat. Add the onions and celery and cook until the onions are soft and translucent, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, 45 to 60 seconds. Add the diced tomatoes and tomato sauce. Fill the tomato sauce can with water and add to the pot, as well. Add the chicken, pork, corn, butterbeans and potatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to simmer and cook uncovered, stirring often, until the potatoes and butterbeans are tender and the mixture is thick, about 45 minutes. Taste and adjust for seasoning with salt and pepper.

Steps:

• In a large stew pot place the rabbit and squirrel and cover by 3 inches of water.
• Stew the two until the meat is ready to fall off the bones.
• This may take 1-2 hours depending on your heat, but slow is best.
• As this is stewing brown the sirloin in cooking oil in a skillet.
• Remove sirloin and sit aside.
• When squirrel and rabbit are ready remove from water and cool.
• Pull off all meat from bones with your fingers and put with the steak, discard bones.
• After the water has cooled skim off the fat or any materials on top.
• Place all the meat back into the broth you have just made and begin to simmer.
• Add potatoes, onion, corn, beans, carrots, celery and garlic.
• Add some additional water if needed to cover by 1-2 inches.
• Simmer for several hours to thicken the stew.
• Thickness is a personal preference to your own likeness and for dipping.
• When thickness is reached salt, pepper and season with your personal.
• stew seasoning.
• Serve hot.
• Note 1: Leftovers can be frozen and reheated in microwave.
• Note 2: You may bypass the stewing of the animals and instead brown them inches.
• a skillet and add later to water but the broth will not be as rich and flavorful.
• Note 3: Serve with some crusty bread or crackers to dip in the stew. Awesome!

Steps:

• Rinse chicken pieces; drain well.
• Heat butter in a 4 quart cast-iron kettle or Dutch oven.
• Saute sliced onion in butter until golden.
• Add tomatoes, water, thyme, basil, cayenne and salt. Stir to combine well; add chicken pieces.
• Bring to boiling, reduce heat and simmer, covered for 30 minutes.
• Scrub and quarter potatoes; add to kettle after chicken has cooked 30 minutes.
• If using fresh lima beans, add along with potatoes.
• Cook 20 minutes longer.
• Add fresh or f rozen corn and lima beans, if using frozen.
• Cook 5 to 10 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
• Push chicken and vegetables to one side of kettle. Stir bread into broth in kettle until it has disintegrated and broth is thickened.
• Stir chicken, vegetables and broth together.