Adding a tin of soup to a stew!

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I need your thought please !!!! I'm going to make a beef stew in the slow cooker today but has anyone ever added a tin of oxtail soup at the end ? I will either ruin our tea or it will taste amazing

Do it. It is an excellent short cut

Have I invented this or has it already been done

Will you need it? Slow cooker stuff is usually 'wetter' than a normal stew anyway.

I really don't like canned soup so I would add stock.

Just seen you're using the SC. Just fry onions with beef and add stock in a tiny amount of water with a dollop of tomato puree and cubed veg ,no other liquid.

I think from the 50s there were loads of suggestions about using canned soup and other things in cooking. Some people think it was a way to market them as an ingredient not just a convenience food while others think that it was a not so subtle way to get women back into the kitchen and not to take advantage of all the new labouring saving devices

THankyou I think il give it a go for something different and if it fails I suppose we can all just have soup. It was on 5 for £3

American recipes usually include a can of soup for some reason. I've never tried it myself.

OP there's no need to add tinned soup to it and not just because it will taste really artificial if you do.

I good spoonful or two of caramelised onion chutney stirred in works wonder for a slow cooker stew.

My stews are just always the same and I'd like to change things abbot as we are having a lot of stews lately and I love being able to prep it in the morning to cook all day. I usually add beef,onions,carrots, peas, sprouts and potatoes. Then 2 oxo cubes with water , stuffing mixture to thicken and taste and a dash of red wine. I'd love to do currys but I can never ever get currys to thicken and need quite a good amount to feed us all plus I usually freeze leftovers.

Wrt curry, leave the lid off for the last hour then thicken with corn flour.

Have you tried adding a cornflour/water mixture to your curries right at the end?

That should thicken them up.

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How I miss my slow cooker.

I never thought of cornflour tbh. I've been brainwashed by slimming world so all my food kind of revolves around that! Although I don't do Sw anymore I'm not sure a bit of cornflour will hurt

I'd rather have some cornflour than all the salt in a tin of soup tbh.

Lentils would thicken a curry

"I'd rather have some cornflour than all the salt in a tin of soup tbh."

One tin of soup in a casserole with no other added salt in it for 4 or 6 people is not going to make a salty dish. A casserole with cornflour instead of salt sounds utterly boring and tasteless. I don't overdo the salt, but I'm not sanctimonious about it either.

I'm not being sanctimonious. I hate the salty taste of tinned soups, I'm happy to add gel stock pots to stews and soups so not against salt whatsoever.

I was responding to the OP's comment about cornflour / SW brain washing.

Must say I don't really check the salt content in stuff

I add canned vegetable soup to shepherds pie or cottage pie sometimes when I'm in more of a rush or have little veg. Works a treat!

If you are going to do this I'd say add the soup from the beginning instead of stock. When I was a teen (early 80s) I used to make a delicious meal of big meatballs (like faggots but offal-free), braised in oxtail soup. I'd forgotten. Thanks OP.

Tip for thickening curries cooked the meat with spices and tbsp flour (as you would stew) or blend up some almonds, macadamia nuts or water chestnuts add about 2-3 tbsp or use creamed coconut block. Yumm

Only on MN would someone get called sanctimonious on a thread about stew and tinned soup. :o

You don't need to thicken curries - just brown plenty onion, garlic, ginger, tomatoes/yogurt/almonds etc with the spices at the beginning, then reduce it down at the end.

Campbells condensed soups always advertised recipes with soup added - sort of makes chicken less boring. I expect that is why they invented the jars of stuff - cookin sauce, chicken tonight etc.

However if you use plenty veg in casseroles, it all mushes down to make a great sauce. Pulses are good too. They all add up for your five a day.