{"id":42242,"date":"2019-04-11T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=42242"},"modified":"2019-04-11T12:01:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:01:42","slug":"recipe-slow-cooker-irish-stew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/recipe-slow-cooker-irish-stew\/","title":{"rendered":"[recipe] Slow cooker Irish stew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/irish-stew.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/recipe-slow-cooker-irish-stew\/irish-stew\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/irish-stew.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,454\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"irish-stew\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/irish-stew.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/irish-stew-400x363.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"363\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-42243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/irish-stew-400x363.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/irish-stew.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 tbsp sunflower oil<br \/>\n200g smoked streaky bacon, preferably in one piece, skinned and cut into chunks<br \/>\n900g cheap stewing lamb (diced shoulder, neck fillet, shank or breast &#8211; ask at your butcher counter), cut into large chunks<br \/>\nsmall bunch thyme<br \/>\n3 onions, thickly sliced<br \/>\n5 carrots, cut into big chunks<br \/>\n6 medium potatoes, cut into big chunks<br \/>\n700ml lamb stock<br \/>\n3 bay leaves<br \/>\n85g pearl barley<br \/>\n1 large leek, washed and cut into chunks<br \/>\nsmall knob of butter<\/p>\n<p>Heat the oil in a frying pan. Sizzle the bacon until crisp, tip into the slow-cooker pot, then brown the chunks of lamb in the pan. Transfer to the slow-cooker pot along with the thyme, onions, carrots, potatoes, stock, bay leaves and enough water to cover the lamb. Cover and cook on Low for 7 hrs.<\/p>\n<p>Stir in the pearl barley and leek, and cook on High for 1 hr more until the pearl barley is tender.<\/p>\n<p>Stir in the butter, season and serve scooped straight from the dish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 tbsp sunflower oil 200g smoked streaky bacon, preferably in one piece, skinned and cut into chunks 900g cheap stewing lamb (diced shoulder, neck fillet, shank or breast &#8211; ask at your butcher counter), cut into large chunks small bunch thyme 3 onions, thickly sliced 5 carrots, cut into big chunks 6 medium potatoes, cut&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/recipe-slow-cooker-irish-stew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;[recipe] Slow cooker Irish stew&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-42242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-aZk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42244,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42242\/revisions\/42244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}