Brunswick Stew (In The Deadening Cooker)

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups leftover pulled pork
2 cups cubed, cooked chicken
2 1/2 cups chicken stock
1/2 loving cup diced province ham
2 cups frozen (or fresh) lima beans
eleven oz canned (drained) or frozen corn
28 oz canned fire-roasted tomatoes
2 stalks celery, diced
1 onion, diced
iv cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons chili sauce (like Heinz)
2 tablespoons apple tree cider vinegar
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon dry out mustard
dark pepper


Directions:

Place all ingredients inwards a 4-quart dull cooker. Stir. It volition endure real thick. Cook on depression 8-10 hours.

My thoughts:

There are then many ways to brand Brunswick Stew in addition to everyone thinks theirs is the right version. I exercise non brand this claim! If people can't fifty-fifty concur if the stew originated inwards Georgia or Virginia or when who am I to create upward one's take away heed what was inwards it? Some sources claim that the master copy stew used to a greater extent than "rustic" meats similar a squirrel, exactly I don't know if it is truthful or not. In the south, I've generally seen it served every bit a side dish at barbecue restaurants where it is oft made of what appears to endure leftovers of what's on their menu: beef, pulled pork, chicken or fifty-fifty turkey, in addition to about vegetables. To me, the beginning that makes the nigh feel is similar to that one: y'all convey a lot of leftover meat in addition to y'all demand to purpose it up. Why non a stew?

Vegetables are ever inwards the finally stew exactly vary a fighting betwixt recipes. Lima beans, tomato, corn, in addition to celery seem to endure the nigh common. Potato is used inwards about versions every bit is okra. I truly wanted to seat okra inwards mine exactly I ran out of room inwards my 4-quart dull cooker. If y'all scaled the recipe upward or made it inwards a larger dull cooker (like a 6-quart), I'd add together okra.

The meat is also upward for debate. Depending on the percentage in addition to cook, I've seen combinations of chicken in addition to pork, chicken in addition to beef in addition to all pork. Most seem to concur that a combination of at to the lowest degree ii dissimilar meats is best (or to create it inwards fatback in addition to add together chicken). The quantities are oft massive, serving xl or more! To larn far at home, I wanted it to endure easier in addition to non require stirring a pot amongst a paddle inwards the town foursquare for hours. The dull cooker seemed ideal. To simplify it farther in addition to larn far fifty-fifty to a greater extent than of a weeknight meal, I used leftover rotisserie chicken (breast in addition to thighs--leftovers from this would endure skilful too) in addition to leftover pulled pork I had frozen. I wanted to upward the smoky season to larn it closer to the versions I've had at barbecue places then I used fire-roasted tomatoes in addition to chopped upward about country to laissez passer it a super-rich, umami boost.

Some recipes add together bottled barbecue sauce or fifty-fifty (yuck) ketchup exactly I don't intend it needs it if y'all are using leftover pulled pork. I tossed inwards about chili sauce, spiced in addition to apple tree cider vinegar to boot the season upward a bit.

They tell the stew isn't gear upward until y'all tin stick a spoon inwards the middle of it in addition to convey it rest vertical. This is definitely truthful of this Brunswick stew! It is hearty, hardy stuff.

While I've generally seen Brunswick stew at restaurants served every bit a side dish, something this tasty in addition to filling deserves to endure middle identify at the dinner table. I served it amongst cornbread I made amongst a fighting of province ham inwards it to necktie it all together.