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10-09-2007, 16:36
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How healthy is stew?
I made myself a big fat warm stew last night.
Chopped up steak, carrots, peas, garlic, onions, herbs etc. Tasted gorgeous but felt a little greasy, I was thinking maybe it could be a bit deceptively unhealthy. Maybe it's bad because of all the vegetable oils and meat fats that add to the broth and then get drank rather than them usually being left at the bottom of the frying pan or roasting dish? :undecided: Can a culinary wizard shed some light?
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10-09-2007, 21:27
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OK so maybe the meat puts a bit of fat in it, but surely the amount of good veggies consumed outweighs a little meat fat?
It's good for the soul anyway 
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11-09-2007, 05:19
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The trick is to have a balanced diet - fat is as much a part of a balanced diet as protein or carbohydrate.
As long as you balance the fat with the other food groups, stew can be a healthy and very tasty meal. I love stew in the wintertime - there's something very comforting about tucking into a steaming plate of beef stew, mashed tatties and dumplings, whilst watching the horizontal sleet out of the window 
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11-09-2007, 09:48
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Depends how you make it I guess. The way I make it there's almost no fat at all - veg, stock, lean meat. Dumplings make it less healthy but I find I can take them or leave them, delicious as they are.
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11-09-2007, 09:56
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Also bear in mind a lot of the vitamins in the vegetables are destroyed when you stew them. It's not an unhealthy meal by quite a wide margin but it's not as good as say crunchy veggies. I love stew, I need to get a big pot so I can stew up a big sonofabitch stew
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17-09-2007, 15:43
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I beat my record.
1.5 litre stew baby. She was a monster!
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17-09-2007, 15:48
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I'm having beef stew for dinner tonight. It's gonna be scrummy!
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17-09-2007, 16:04
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17-09-2007, 18:01
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It depends how you cook the meat initially - did you use oil/fat? Also bear in mind things like carrots and some other veggies absorb fat quite easily. Another tip, when cooking, never add cold oil to the pan/pot else it'll just get soaked up by the meats/veggies and not be used usefully towards the cooking process.
Stews are VERY calorific, but with lots of good stuff in there, lots of protein and little bad fats and are good for the digestive system as it's digested more easily as things tend to be more tender. I LOVE stews.
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17-09-2007, 18:05
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Ive never made a stew
 Does anyone have any tips? I prefer stews with taters in rather than dumplings
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