stovies please

[dizzywitches]

anyone have a foolproof receipe please?

ignoring my typo in the process

This is how I think it's meant to be made, am assuming you are in scotland and can get square sausage.
Brown your sausage first to stop if falling to pieces.
Slice potates, carrots and onion, chuck all in a pot and boil, add gravy granules to thicken up and serve like a stew type thing.

funny I always thought stovies were made from mince but yours is the second recipe using sausages - thanks

Whatever meat you like! Traditionally, it's made with leftovers so there's no right or wrong in the recipe. So long as it's mainly potatoes and cooked on the stove top, then it's stovies!

I brown peeled & chopped potatoes, usually some chpped up carrot, and the chopped up end of a ham joint. Then add about half a pint of stock and cook till all nice and soft, bashing it about from time to time. Should be wet and mushy, but more lumpy than mashed potato.

You can use whatever meat and vegetables you have in the house - fresh, tinned, frozen, leftovers, whatever.

Hi Dizzy

I would do almost the same as lilacclaire but without carrots

Brown square sausage + cut into chunks
Put in big pot with sliced potatoes + onions + plenty salt/pepper,
Add boiling water to about 1/3 of the way up the side of the pot.
Lid on, and boil until all cooked. Sometimes have to simmer uncovered for last part of cooking if seems too 'wet'.
Don't stir it up until right before you're ready to eat it as it can go mushy.

I have been known (in my lazy-arsed fashion) not to bother browning the sausage first, and it still tastes great!

Enjoy!

OK it probably should be mushy - but not sloppy IYKWIM

thanks guys