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Best made with pork. May be made a day ahead and reheated
very slowly. Bread boat is to be served crisp! Do not even think
about using this recipe unless you have started the bread boats
properly.
*Meat should be slowly pre-cooked in a whole piece (with
moisture in pan) to medium doneness. Cool, trim fat and gristle,
and cut into irregular cubes (about 3/4 inch or more). |
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| Ingredients |
8 persons |
16 persons |
24 persons |
| Coarsely chopped onion |
4 cups |
8 cups |
12 cups |
| Bay leaf, crumbled |
1 leaf |
2 leaves |
3 leaves |
| Pre-cooked pork, lamb, or beef* |
2 pounds |
4 pounds |
6 pounds |
| Fresh garlic, pressed or sliced |
1 Tablespoons |
2 Tablespoons |
3 Tablespoons |
| Freshly ground black pepper |
1 teaspoon |
2 teaspoons |
1 Tablespoon |
| Brown sugar |
1-1/2 Tablespoons |
3 Tablespoons |
4-1/2 Tablespoons |
| Green pepper, cut in julienne strips 1/4
inch wide and 2 inches long |
1 pepper |
2 pepper |
3 pepper |
| Red pepper, cut in julienne strips 1/4
inch wide and 2 inches long |
1 pepper |
2 pepper |
3 pepper |
| Yellow pepper, cut in julienne strips 1/4
inch wide and 2 inches long |
1 pepper |
2 pepper |
3 pepper |
| Fresh or canned tomatoes, coarsely chopped |
2 cups |
4 cups |
6 cups |
| Juice from tomatoes (or tomato juice) |
1 cup |
2 cups |
3 cups |
| Tomato paste |
1/2 cup |
1 cup |
1-1/2 cup |
| Tabasco or Crystal pepper sauce |
1 teaspoon |
2 teaspoons |
1 Tablespoon |
| Vietnamese sauce (chili and garlic hot sauce) |
1 teaspoon |
2 teaspoons |
1 Tablespoon |
| Stuffed olives, cut in half |
1/3 cup |
2/3 cup |
1 cup |
| Meyer's dark rum |
1/3 cup |
2/3 cup |
1 cup |
Whole-Wheat Bread Boat: You must slowly thaw the bread
dough in the refrigerator overnight or it will not be right! Place
frozen dough at least 4 inches apart on parchment paper. Spray
with non-stick spray and cover with parchment. Place in
refrigerator to slowly thaw overnight. Early the next day, dough
will start to rise slowly and evenly (should reach about 7 inches
long and 4 inches wide and 3 inches high). Preheat oven and bake
at 375 degrees until loves are dark brown and are no longer soft
when squeezed. Cool on rack.
Stew: In a large oval casserole, place in layers in this
order: onion, bay leaf, meat, garlic, black pepper, brown sugar,
green pepper, red pepper, yellow pepper, and tomatoes. Combine
juice from tomatoes (or tomato juice), tomato paste, pepper sauce,
and Vietnamese sauce and pour mixture over ingredients in
casserole. Cover and place in 325-degree oven. Stir and reduce
heat when stew starts to bubble. Add juice or paste to
thin/thicken. Meat should be moist and tender, not dry and hard.
Add olives and rum.
Hold stew for service in a warm 175-degree oven; it should not
continue to bubble and cook. Add hot tomato juice as needed to
thin or thicken. Again, meat should be moist and tender, not dry
and hard.
For serving: Cut top of bread loaves and hollow out
each loaf to a deep well. Place under the heat lamps or in oven to
crisp for use. Heap an 8-ounce portion of stew inside a crisp
whole-wheat bread boat. Garnish with chopped parsley and a large
loveage leaf if available.
- You found this recipe on 1st Traveler's Choice Internet
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