Slow cooker lamb stew

Name: Slow cooker lamb stew
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 8 h
Total time: 8 h 20 min
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 tbsp sunflower oil; 200g smoked streaky bacon preferably in one piece, skinned and cut into chunks; 900g cheap stewing lamb like middle neck or scrag (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 into big chunks; 700ml lamb stock; 3 bay leaves; 85g pearl barley; 1 large leek washed and cut into chunks; small knob of butter

Instructions

Prep:20minCook:8h

Middle neck or scrag end of lamb are flavoursome cuts and perfect for braising in this traditional slow cooked Irish stew. It contains filling pearl barley, too

Updated at: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:26:58 GMT