French Gourmet Pork Sausage And Vegetable Stew Recipes

SAUSAGE-AND-VEGETABLE STEW

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a Dutch oven or heavy pot over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic; cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and glistening, about 6 minutes. Add the paprika and 1 teaspoon salt; cook until the oil turns deep red, about 1 minute. Add the flour and cook until just toasted, 30 more seconds. Immediately whisk in 4 cups water. Add the kielbasa, carrots, parsnips, potatoes and 1 1/2 teaspoons salt.
• Bring the soup to a boil, then reduce to a simmer; cover and cook until the vegetables are tender and the broth has thickened, about 20 minutes. Add the vinegar and season with pepper.
• Combine about half of the parsley with the sour cream in a small bowl and season with salt and pepper. Ladle the stew into bowls; top with the remaining parsley, a dollop of herbed sour cream and a sprinkle of paprika. Serve with bread.

GALICIAN PORK AND VEGETABLE STEW

Steps:

• Place garbanzos in large bowl. Add water to cover by 2 inches. Let soak overnight. Drain.
• Place pork ribs, ham, ham shank, chorizo, steak, and pancetta in heavy large pot. Add 16 cups water. Bring to boil. Add garbanzos and leeks. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover partially, and simmer until garbanzos are tender, adjusting heat as needed to maintain active simmer, about 1 hour. Add potatoes and kale; simmer until potatoes are tender, 40 to 50 minutes.
• Using slotted spoon, divide meats, vegetables, and broth among 8 large bowls.
• Available at specialty foods stores and Italian markets.
• ** A pork link sausage flavored with garlic and spices but milder than Mexican chorizo; available at specialty foods stores and Spanish markets and from latienda.com.
• What to drink:
• The rich stew needs a big red wine. José recommends a Ribera del Duero from northern Spain, like the Bodegas Alejandro Fernández 2006 "Pesquera" Tinto ($34). The Zarus 2004 Barrica ($15) would also be a good choice.

FRENCH STYLE PORK STEW WITH ROOT VEGETABLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• put the flour in a large bowl and season generously with salt and pepper.
• Add the pork in 4 batches, tossing to coat thoroughly.
• In a large covered casserole, heat 2 T. oil until simmering.
• Add onion, shallot and garlic and saute until translucent.
• Remove and set aside on a plate.
• Add 1/4 of the pork and cook over moderately high heat until browned, about 6 minutes, transfer to a plate.
• Brown the remaining floured pork in 3 batches, adding 2 T. of oil to the pot per batch.
• Reduce the heat if the casserole bottom darkens too much.
• Return all pork to the casserole.
• Add the wine and bring to a boil.
• Add the stock and return to a boil.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Cover the casserole and braise the stew in the oven for about 1 hour, or until meat is nearly tender.
• Add the carrots, celery, parsnips, potatoes, fennel, thyme and bay leaves to the pork stew.
• Season with salt and pepper and bring to a boil, stirrring to distribute the vegetables.
• Cover the casserole, return to the oven and cook until the meat and vegetables are tender, about 1 hour.
• Remove thyme sprigs and bay leaves, season with salt and pepper.
• Serve and enjoy!
• **Can be made in slowcooker!

PORC EN DAUBE - FRENCH PORK STEW

Steps:

• For the overnight marinade:.
• Put the pork pieces in a casserole with a lid.
• Chop the onions roughly, and add half to the pot.
• Put in 2 bay leaves and and distribute the twigs of thyme around the pot.
• Pour 3/4 (about 1 1/2 pints) of a bottle of red wine (best option is an inexpensive fruity red wine!) over the meat etc in the pot. Put the lid on it, and leave it until the following day.
• The following day, lift out the meat with a slotted spoon, and put it in a colander over the casserole, to drain a bit. Lift out the other ingredients and discard them. Keep the wine.
• If you will be using the same pot, just drain off the wine into a bowl, rinse the pot, dry it, and heat it over medium heat.
• Add a little oil.
• Put the other half of the roughly chopped onion into the oil. Add the chopped garlic, and cook both till a little bit golden. Lift out with a slotted spoon.
• Dry the meat with paper towels.
• Put the meat into a bag with 1 cup of flour, and shake the bag till the meat is coated.
• Begin to brown the meat over medium high heat. Don't do all at once, because if you do they won't brown, they will begin to stew in juice. Brown them in small batches, and lift out with a slotted spoon as they brown.
• When all have been browned, return all the meat and the onion and garlic to the pan.
• Add a little of the flour (1 tablespoon) to ensure a somewhat thick sauce.
• Add 2 bay leaves.
• Pour the reserved wine over the meat. Pour the rest of the wine (this will be about 1 1/2 pints) over the meat.
• The liquid should cover the meat. If it doesn't, add some water or bouillon.
• Cook this covered over low heat for at least two hours, or until tender, stirring occasionally.
• Add more thyme if desired. The sauce will thicken and become reduced.
• You can cook this on the stove over low heat or in an oven at 325F or less.
• I like to cook meat slowly over low heat, so I cook this for almost 4 hours!
• Prepare dried, thick sliced toast: Take a clove of fresh garlic, and just scrape the garlic lightly over both sides of the toast.
• Ladle the meat and sauce over the toasts.

FRENCH GOURMET PORK, SAUSAGE, AND VEGETABLE STEW

Steps:

• Rinse beans and soak beans overnight or at least 4 hours with as much water to cover them entirely as they expand.
• To serve this rich stew as a first-course soup, cut cabbages into wedges and as thinly as possible.
• All vegetables and meats are cut into cubes or diced and add more liquid.
• Use only half of the pork shoulder.
• Trim off excess fat from pork shoulder.
• Tie the shoulder into an oval and put it in a large pot, ideally just wide enough to hold the shoulder with the shoulder bone if there was one.
• Add garlic, bouquet garni, juniper berries.
• Pour in enough cold water to cover and bring to a gentle simmer.
• Cut the rind off the bacon and add to liquid with pork shoulder.
• Simmer very gently uncovered, using ladle to skim off fat and froth.
• Cut cabbage into 10 wedges.
• Remove strip of core at inner edges.
• When the shoulder has cooked for 1 17" hours, add the beans.
• Simmer for 30 minutes more and nestle in the cabbage wedges, sausage, and the rest of the vegetables.
• Simmer for one hour more.
• The pork cooks for a total of 3 hours.
• Strain contents of pot and set over a bowl or clean pot.
• Discard bouquet garni and shoulder bone.
• Skim off a bit of the fat.
• Season the broth to taste with salt.
• Slice the meats.
• Serve broth and vegetables in bowls, each with a slice of toast at the bottom of each bowl and the meats placed on top.