What else should I put in the stew/casserole?

[Sparrowlegs248]

Clearing our the freezer. Today o have put stewing steak in the slow cooker, with carrots, butternut squash, red pepper and a stock pot. Some water. The onions have all gone sprouty.

What else can I add to make it edible?

You can still use the onions! Garlic, tin of tomatoes.

Any red wine? Herbs? I do think you need onions but I love them and put them in just about everything!

Garlic, red wine and mustard, mustard in a beef stew is gorgeous

Nowt wrong with sprouty onions! I'd add tomatoes too. Tinned or fresh.

Wine, maybe a spot of dried chilli? Smoked paprika?

Red lentils if you have them.

Some feta at the end, crumbled in.

marmite & maybe a dark ale

The onions are not edible. Hadn't thought of tomatoes, randomly.

Mustard sounds interesting!

Tomato purée and Worcestershire sauce x

Bacon bit.

I'm a purist and would never add squash or peppers or garlic or lentils (don't like them) or tomatoes or anything else other than (eg for steak and kidney) shin of beef, ox kidney, onions, carrots, beef stock, a dash of Worcester sauce and a splash of red wine, salt and pepper, not forgetting to add dumplings to finish - yum.

Grapes, cherry tomatoes and chopped up apple.

Well ds put them in a lasagne when he was about 2yo. It was perfectly edible!

Mushrooms, fresh or dried.
Lea & Perrins.
Bay leaves.

barley , swede, dumplings, mushrooms

I love butter beans in a stew...