| You can make a stew recipe by simmering your | | | | others preseason the pots by spraying oil into them |
| ingredients on the stove on a low heat and most | | | | and baking it on. It is possible to erode the |
| people make stew recipes in this way. There are also | | | | preseasoning away, making enamel the best choice. |
| other ways to make stews. Maybe you have a slow | | | | Stew in a Slow Cooker - Cooking Tips |
| cooker or a dutch oven. Both of these can be used to | | | | Using a slow cooker, sometimes called a crockpot, is a |
| make wonderful chicken stew. | | | | great cooking method to use with stew recipes. If you |
| Dutch Oven Stew Cooking Tips | | | | want to make stew in a crockpot, it is quite |
| A dutch oven, which is also known as a stockpot, | | | | straightforward. First, you have to brown the chicken |
| casserole or french oven, is a handy addition to the | | | | or meat. Then you add the other ingredients, perhaps |
| kitchen. A dutch oven is thicker and heavier than a | | | | vegetables, bouillon, herbs, spices and potatoes, and |
| stockpot, which means it can conduct heat more | | | | leave it to cook over a medium heat for five or six |
| effectively and distribute it throughout the food with | | | | hours or a low heat for about eight hours. |
| ease. You can use a dutch oven to make braised | | | | A slow cooker is great for cooking stews because |
| meals, pot roasts, stews and much more. You can | | | | the flavors have plenty of time to mingle well and the |
| sear food in the dutch oven on the stove and then put | | | | meat or chicken will be extremely tender. |
| the whole thing in the oven to finish cooking. You can | | | | If you are going to be out of the house all day but you |
| boil pasta or rice in a dutch oven and they are good | | | | want to get home to a tasty homemade chicken |
| for deep frying because of their high sides. | | | | stew, a crockpot would be your perfect tool. It might |
| If you want to make a chicken stew recipe or | | | | only take an hour or so to make a stew in a normal |
| something, similar you can brown the meat in batches | | | | pan but when you are hungry, that is too long to wait |
| in the dutch oven. It will brown easily and you can | | | | and having your evening meal all ready for you is a |
| brown more at one time than if you had to use a | | | | very nice luxury after a long day at work. |
| smaller pot. You can cook the stew on the stove or in | | | | It is well worth buying a crockpot because there are |
| the oven, using the dutch oven as the cooking pot. | | | | literally hundreds of slow cooker recipes for it. A slow |
| Cast iron is a good choice for a dutch oven but iron | | | | cooker comes with instructions and basic cooking tips |
| does react with some foods. Some dutch oven | | | | so you can start making wonderful stew recipes |
| manufacturers put a layer of enamel on the iron and | | | | immediately. |