'Pichelsteiner' Stew


Ingredients:

  • 4 oz. pork 
  • 4 1/2 oz. beef 
  • 4 1/2 oz. lamb (shoulder) 
  • 2 onions 
  • 1 celery root 
  • 3 parsnips 
  • 3 carrots 
  • 2 leeks 
  • 1/2 head of white cabbage 
  • 1/2 lbs potatoes 
  • 4 cups of vegetable broth 
  • 1 teaspoon caraway seeds 
  • 1 teaspoon paprika 
  • 1 small bunch of fresh marjoram (chopped) 
  • 1 bunch of parsley (chopped) 
Directions: 


  1. Wash the meat and the vegetables thoroughly. Peel the vegetables. 
  2. Cut all the meat and the potatoes into 1 inch dices.Chop the celery root, onions and the cabbage. Slice the parsnips, carrotsand leeks. 
  3. Sauté all the meat, together with the chopped onions in a saucepan for appr. 5 minutes and season with some salt, pepper and paprika. Then, take half of the meat out and spread the remaining meat out in the saucepan neatly. 
  4. What you are looking to do, is to cook your stew inlayers. So half the meat mixed with the onions is your first layer. 
  5. Mix all the prepared vegetables together, except the potatoes. 
  6. Add half of the mixed vegetables into the saucepan on top of the meat, so that it builds your second layer. On top of that make a third layer with half of your prepared potatoes. 
  7. Next a layer of meat, on top of that a layer of mixed vegetables and to finish it up the last layer of potatoes. 
  8. Make sure you season every layer with salt, pepper,paprika, caraways and marjoram. 
  9. Now add the vegetable broth carefully and steam forabout 1 hour at good heat. Reduce the heat slightly towards the end. Addsome hot water while cooking if you deem necessary. 
  10. Don't stir while steaming, better shake the saucepan slightly from time to time. 
  11. Sprinkle with plenty of chopped parsley when serving.