Celebrate St Patricks' Day with Slow Cooker Irish Stew with Guinness Gravy

Aye.  May the luck of the irish be with you today!

Here's a great little recipe that's an all-in-one.  Meat AND vegetables.  Of course being irish there are potatoes! Rustic and warm, this is a great one for a cool day at home, the smell of it cooking is homely and inviting.  Added to that, it is yummy and economical !

Ingredients:
6 meaty lamb forequarter chops, fat rind removed
2 large carrots, chopped
5 medium potatoes, peeled, and thickly sliced
1 leek, thickly slicked
1/8th savoy cabbaged, sliced (roughly 150g)
4 rashers bacon
2 tb beef stock powder
2 tb plain flour
200ml water
200ml Guinness

Method:
Trim fat rind off forequarter chops, and prepare other ingredients - i.e. chopping/peeling/slicing

In your slowcooker, lay two rashers of bacon on the bottom then arrange half of the potatoes, leeks, carrots and cabbage on top.  

Then layer the lamb

Then the remainder of the vegetables and top off with the last two rashers of bacon.

In a jug, measure out the beef stock powder, flour and then add enough Guinness to reach 200ml. Stir thoroughly and add enough water to make 400ml.  Stir again.

Pour over the lamb and vegetables, turn slow cooker onto medium and place the lid on top.

Cook for 5 hours, if you feel like it, at 5 hour mark, remove bones before serving.

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