Kentucky Bourbon Stew Recipes

TRADITIONAL KENTUCKY BURGOO

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in an 8-quart pot over medium heat; brown pork and beef cubes in the hot oil, working in batches if necessary.
• Stir in chicken broth, chicken pieces, potatoes, and carrots. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer stew for 1 hour.
• Stir in stewed tomatoes, barbeque sauce, green beans, okra, corn, onion, green bell pepper, celery, apple cider vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, bay leaves, salt, black pepper, and hot pepper sauce.
• Bring stew back to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer 1 more hour.
• Discard bay leaves before serving stew in bowls.

KENTUCKY BOURBON BURGOO

Steps:

• 1. Put the pork, veal, beef, lamb, and chicken into a large pot. Add the water and bring it to a boil slowly. Simmer until meat is tender enough to fall off the bones, about 4-6 hours.
• 2. Lift the meat out of the stock. Cool the meat, remove it from the bones, and chop it. Return the chopped meat to the stock.
• 3. Pare the potatoes and onions and dice them. Add them, plus the carrots, green peppers, cabbage, tomato puree, corn, red pepper, okra, parsley, lima beans, celery, and bourbon, to the meat and stock. Allow the stew to simmer until very thick about 6 hours.
• 4. Season to taste with the salt, pepper, Tabasco, steak sauce, and Worcestershire sauce.

KENTUCKY BURGOO

Steps:

• Day one: In a large heavy stockpot, add meat and cover with water. Add 1 teaspoon salt, Italian seasoning, and enough water to completely cover meat. Simmer over medium heat for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Remove meat from stock; refrigerate stock for later use. Debone meat, discard bones, and place meat in a roasting pan. Roast meat for 1 1/2 hours in the preheated oven or until tender when pierced with a fork. Cover pan with aluminum foil and refrigerate.
• Day two: Remove stock from refrigerator; skim off and discard top layer of hardened white fat. Pour 4 cups of stock into a heavy stockpot; add potatoes, carrots, 1 can of crushed tomatoes, and 1 teaspoon salt. Cook vegetable mixture over medium-high heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cool slightly and refrigerate.
• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Heat olive oil in a small skillet over medium heat. Add the onion. Cook and stir until onion is transparent, 5 to 8 minutes. Set aside. Remove meat from refrigerator and add remaining stock to pan. Cover the roasting pan with a lid or aluminum foil.
• Cook meat for 1 1/2 hours in the preheated oven. Remove the meat from the oven and pour in the salsa, onion, tomato sauce, brown sugar, barbecue sauce, and 1 can crushed tomatoes. Continue roasting for another 1 1/2 hours. Cool slightly and refrigerate overnight.
• Day three: In a large Dutch oven portable roaster or large stock pot, combine meat with the vegetable mixture from the day before, corn, green beans, lima beans, okra, and tomato juice. Cook for 3 hours at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) if using a roaster, or if using a stock pot, simmer over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally.

KENTUCKY BOURBON STEW

Steps:

• Take the beef and pork and marinate overnight in the bourbon and garlic turning the meat during the marinate time.
• Reserve the liquid In a heavy stockpot, heat the oil.
• When hot sear the beef and pork in batches until you have a good color on the meat.
• Add the quartered onions, garlic, and pepper.
• Cover with water and reserved marinade.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer covered for about 3 hours.
• Salt and pepper the chicken and add it to the pot during the last hour and a half.
• At the end of the 3 hrs remove the meat and veg from the pot.
• Cool the meat and discard the veg.
• Add the remaining veg and the sugar to the pot of hot liquid.
• Cook for an additional hr.
• When the meat has cooled cube it removing the chicken skin and bones.
• About a 1-inch cube works well.
• Return the meat to the pot and cook for 30 minutes more.
• Correct the seasoning if needed.
• Get a basket of homemade rolls or French bread serve and watch them come back for more.

BEEF STEW MEAT (SWEDISH COLLOPS) WITH BOURBON

Steps:

• 1. Combine flour,salt & pepper and coat stew meat. Heat oil in skillet and brown meat on all sides. Place in Tender Cooker.
• 2. Combine onion, cranberry sauce & bourbon, stir into the meat. Add bay leaf. The alcohol in the bourbon cooks out, just the wonderful flavor remains.
• 3. Add gasket, cover and turn cover to lock down. Be sure the gasket stays in place, on the bottom of the cooker. Top cover with the red weight.
• 4. Put pot into your micro-wave and , cook on high for 20-25 minutes! With a low wattage oven add 1-2 minutes. Open micro-wave door. Wait till the yellow stem lowers down. Remove to counter. Open lid and serve over cooked noodles, rice, or mashed potatoes. I like spinach or cooked carrots on the side. This makes it's own wonderful gravy!! OH! SO.......delicious!!!