Booyah Recipes

BOOYAH RECIPE

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a very large pot (at least 8 quarts) to medium-high heat. Season the beef and chicken with salt and pepper. Sear them in batches in the pot a few minutes per side to brown them. Remove and set aside.
• Reduce the heat to medium. Add the onion, peppers, carrots, and celery. Cook for 5 minutes to soften. Stir in the garlic and cook another minute until the garlic becomes fragrant.
• Add the chicken stock, crushed tomatoes, hot sauce to taste and bay leaves. Return the browned meats to the pot. Season with salt and pepper.
• Reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 2 hours.
• Break apart any larger chunks of meat with forks, if desired.
• Add the potatoes, cabbage, corn, peas, green beans, and Worcestershire sauce. Simmer for 30 minutes, or until the potatoes are softened and cooked through.
• Taste and adjust for salt and pepper and hot sauce. Serve with extra hot sauce!

BOOYAH CHICKEN

Steps:

• Combine the chicken, beef, pork, water and broth in a large pot and bring to a boil. Add whole cloves of garlic and bay leaves, then reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 2 hours.
• Remove chicken, beef and pork. Strip meats from bones and cut into bite size pieces. Strain stock in pot and add water to yield 8 cups of stock. Return meats to broth.
• Heat oil in a medium skillet and saute the onion, carrot, celery and minced garlic for about 5 minutes. Add saute mixture to pot along with the potatoes, beans, tomatoes, salt, rosemary, pepper and thyme. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer uncovered for about 10 minutes. Stir in the peas, lemon zest and red pepper. Heat through and serve garnished with parsley.

BOOYAH

Steps:

• Pat beef and chicken dry with paper towels and season with salt and black pepper.
• Heat oil in large Dutch oven over medium-high heat until just smoking. Brown beef on all sides, about 10 minutes; transfer to plate. Cook chicken until browned all over, about 10 minutes; transfer to plate. When chicken is cool enough to handle, remove the skin and discard it.
• Pour off all but 1-1/2 teaspoons fat from pot. Add onions and celery and cook over medium heat until softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in broth and bay leaves, scraping up any browned bits. Add beef, beef bones, and chicken, and bring to boil.
• Reduce heat to low and simmer, covered, until chicken registers 175° F, about 30 minutes. Transfer chicken to bowl. When chicken is cool enough to handle, shred into bite-size pieces, discarding bones. Cover chicken and refrigerate.
• Continue to simmer stew until beef is tender, about 1-1/4 hours longer. Transfer beef to plate. When cool enough to handle, shred into bite-size pieces, discarding fat. Remove beef bones and bay leaves; discard.
• Strain broth through fine-mesh strainer; discard solids. Allow liquid to settle, about 5 minutes, then skim off fat and return liquid to pot.
• Add shredded beef, cabbage, tomatoes, rutabaga, 1-1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper to liquid and bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until rutabaga is translucent around edges, about 15 minutes.
• Stir in potatoes and carrots and cook until vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes. Add chicken and peas, and simmer until heated through, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve hot.

SLOW COOKER BELGIAN CHICKEN BOOYAH

Steps:

• Mix chicken, potatoes, beef, corn, carrots, green beans, chicken broth, beef broth, diced tomatoes, onion, celery, bell pepper, cabbage, salt, basil, oregano, celery salt, black pepper, and vegetable base in a slow cooker.
• Cook on Low for 6 hours.

BOOYAH THE SOUP

Steps:

• Remove all the meat from the cooked chicken. Discard the skin. You can reserve the bones for making stock. Chop the meat into bite size pieces. (1/2 inch cube). Refrigerate the meat until needed.
• Cut the beef chuck roast into 1 inch cubes and put into a resalable plastic bag. Add 1 Tbsp of flour to bag and shake until all the meat cubes are coated. Heat 2 Tbsp oil in 8 qt pot. When hot, add the meat and brown on all sides. Remove browned beef with a slotted spoon and reserve, repeat with remaining beef cubes.
• Cut kielbasa into strips and cube (1/2 inch). Add to hot pot and cook over medium high heat until browned. Remove with slotted spoon and add to beef. Do not drain fat from pot.
• Add onion, celery, red bell pepper, carrots, and the turnip to the pot. Sweat the vegetables over medium high heat until the onions are translucent. Add the Italian spice blend and the hot pepper flakes. Cook for 2 more minutes.
• Add can of diced tomatoes. Stir and continue to cook for 5 minutes. Add chicken broth and bring to a simmer.
• Add reserved chicken, beef, and sausage to pot. Bring to a simmer and cover. Simmer for 10 minute.
• Drain diced potatoes and add to pot along with barley. Cover and simmer all for 10 more minutes.
• Add frozen peas and corn. Add salt and pepper. Simmer 1 more minute. Taste and adjust seasoning.
• Just before serving add beer.

SUNDAY SUPPER BOOYAH

Steps:

• Place beef, pork or turkey in 5 gal stock pot, and 2 each 3 gal stock pot with 1 cup onion plus and some salt and pepper into each pot. Add pork bones for the stock to fill each pot one-third full. Bring to simmer, skimming surface as needed, and cook slowly a half-hour. Add more beef, pork or turkey and enough water or stock to cover meat. REMOVE ALL PIECES OF BONES AND BITS. Continue to simmer very slowly for another hour or two.
• Meanwhile, chop the vegetables and set aside in separate bowls.
• When meats are tender, remove them from the broth to cool. Add vegetables (including remaining onions) one type at a time to the broth, allowing soup to return to a simmer before the next type is added.
• Chop meats; add to pot. Simmer soup slowly for at least two hours. (Water or stock may be added as necessary.) Authentic booyah is brothy, like a soup, but with the vegetable and meat solids melded together the Sunday Supper is very thick, like a stew. Serve over open face buns or cooked rice.

CHICKEN BOOYAH

Steps:

• In large stockpot bring chicken, beef shanks. pork, water, stock, 3 of the garlic cloves and the bay leaves to a boil over high heat, skimming off any foam.
• Lower the heat, cover and simmer for 2 hours or until the meat is tender. Remove lid for the last 45 minutes of cooking.
• Remove meat from the pot and cool. Cut all meat and chicken into bite size pieces.
• Strain and measure stock, setting aside 8 cups. If needed add water to make the 8 cups.
• Discard skin, bones and bay leaves.
• In the stockpot, heat oil over medium heat. Add onions, carrots, celery and the final clove of garlic. Saute until tender.
• Add the reserved stock, potatoes, green beans, tomatoes, salt, rosemary, pepper and thyme and bring to a boil.
• Lower the heat and simmer uncovered until potatoes are tender.
• Add the peas, reserved chicken and meat and the lemon rind. Add red pepper sauce. Simmer a few minutes longer until the peas are tender.
• Serve in large soup bowls and garnish with fresh parsley.

BOOYA SOUP COUNTRY STYLE

Steps:

• Combine meats, bones, onion, parsley, split peas, lima beans and seasonings in a large kettle.
• Add water to cover; bring to boil and then reduce heat.
• Cover and simmer about 5 hours or until meat is tender.
• Remove meat from bones and cube; discard bones.
• Skim fat from stock. Return meat to kettle and add cabbage, carrots, rutabaga and green pepper.
• Simmer covered for about 1 more hour.
• Add undrained canned vegetables; simmer 1/2 hour more.
• Enjoy!