{"id":15378,"date":"2014-09-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/?p=15378"},"modified":"2021-11-17T19:43:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T19:43:22","slug":"traditional-scottish-stovies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/traditional-scottish-stovies\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Scottish Stovies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Donald Russell<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/img\/DR-stovies-recipe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those who hail from south of the Border might not know what stovies are: think bubble and squeak, but minus the squeak. Stovies is a hearty plateful of meat, potatoes, onions and possibly some flavourful dripping from the Sunday roast &#8211; a great Monday night dinner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Ingredients<\/h4>\n<p>2 large onions, sliced<\/p>\n<p>2 tbsp beef dripping from your roast (can use lard or olive oil if you don\u2019t have dripping)<\/p>\n<p>1 kg potatoes, peeled and sliced thickly<\/p>\n<p>200ml leftover gravy, meat juices or rich reduced beef stock (ideally a combination, all supplied by your leftover roast dinner)<\/p>\n<p>500g leftover cooked meat, cut into 2-3 cm chunks<\/p>\n<p>Salt and black pepper<\/p>\n<p>Oatcakes, pickled beetroot and milk, to serve<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Method<\/h4>\n<p>In a large, heavy bottomed pan with a lid, gently fry the onions in the fat until soft.<\/p>\n<p>Layer over the raw potatoes and pour in the rich, beefy gravy-style liquid. Add in the meat, making sure you include all the sticky, savoury scrapings from the roasting pan!<\/p>\n<p>Add enough cold water to come to a few centimetres below the level of the potatoes, and season well. Cover and bring to the boil, then turn down to a gentle simmer.<\/p>\n<p>Cook for about half an hour, stirring occasionally. The potatoes should be starting to fall apart into mash; it\u2019s ready when you have a really hearty and comforting mix of half mash, half soft chunks.<\/p>\n<p>Check the seasoning (it needs plenty) and serve hot.<\/p>\n<p>For a real taste of Aberdeenshire, serve your stovies with sliced cold pickled beetroot, warmed Scottish oatcakes and a glass of very cold milk. Delicious!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Donald Russell &nbsp; Those who hail from south of the Border might not know what stovies are: think bubble and squeak, but minus the squeak. Stovies is a hearty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3481,287],"tags":[2245,2461,887,103],"class_list":["post-15378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-recipes","tag-beef","tag-recipes","tag-scottish","tag-traditional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15463,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15378\/revisions\/15463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}