Summer Ale Kielbasa Stew

Recipe Rating:	1 Rating5
Categories:	Other Soups, Vegetable Soup
Collections:	Bring on the Bacon!
Keywords:	sweet, sausage, stew, Tomato, polish, kielbasa, Paprika, tomatoe, Spanish, paricka, slavic, slav
Serves:	6-8
Prep Time:	5 Min
Cook Time:	45 Min

Ingredients

8 oz	kielbasa saugase, sliced thin
8 oz	thick cut, or slab bacon, roughly chopped
1	vidalia onion, sliced thin
3 clove	garlic, sliced thin
1	red bell pepper, sliced thin
1	yellow bell pepper, sliced thin
2 lb	ripe plum tomatoes, rough chopped
1 c	summer wheat ale
1	bay leaf
1 Tbsp	paprika, sweet
1/2 tsp	red pepper flakes (or more if you like it hot!!!)
	salt and pepper to taste

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Maggie May Schill

Cooked to Perfection

Jacksonville, FL (pop. 821,784)

NakedMaggie

Member Since Aug 2011

Maggie May's Notes:

Tomorrow is the first day of summer! In celebration of summer I decided to make my Slavic husband a very Slavic dish. A peasant dish actually that owes its existence to the spice trade through the areas of Hungary and Slovakia in the post-medieval ages. Paprika is the primary spice in this dish. It is hardy and heavy, highly acidic with a tomato base. Not to mention good and yeasty with a wheat summer ale. I used Sam Adam's particularly. The light Lemon nodes in Sam Adam's Summer Ale really compliments this stew in my opinion.
Once again; if you wouldn't drink it, don't cook with it!

Directions

Heat a dutch oven, or heavy soup pot over medium low heat. Add bacon to pot and brown for 5 minutes until lightly browned.

Raise heat to medium. Add onions and stir with bacon. Stir occasionally until onions are lightly browned. About 5 minutes.

Add garlic, yellow and red bell peppers and stir. Stir occasionally and cook until slightly browned. About 5 minutes.

Add sausage, paprika and red pepper flakes. Stir and cook for about 3 minutes.

Add tomatoes and cook until tomatoes begin to break up and release their juices. About 5-7 minutes.

Add ale and bay leaf. Raise heat to high and bring pot to a boil.

Once pot has hit a boil, lower heat to medium-low again and cover pot. Simmer for about 20 minutes.

Serve hot.
I served it with toasted sour dough bread. The yeasty bread is excellent with this yeast inspired stew!

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Stormy Stewart karlyn255

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Bob Wakeman Bigcatfish

Jun 20, 2012

Will put this stew in my camping folder for this fall. Whats not to like in this recipe.

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Maggie May Schill NakedMaggie

Jun 21, 2012

Thanks Bob. Hope it turns out good for you! :)

Julia Ferguson judyjellybean

Jun 21, 2012

Maggie, This recipe sounds and looks so good. Will have to make this when the weather cools off. I bet this would be good with some cannelli beans in it and a big hunk of hot cornbread on the side.

Maggie May Schill NakedMaggie