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What Can I Do With Leftover Cottage Cheese

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  • Soup from Leftover Stew
  • Turn Leftover Stew into a Pie!
  • Cottage and/or Shepherd's Pie
    • It all depends on the mash!
  • Make a Hotpot
  • Sauce Pasta with Leftover Stew
  • Add to Risotto
  • Serve with Eggs
  • 3 More Quick Ideas for Leftover Stew
bowl of leftover lamb stew

If you haven't managed to eat all your dinner and have some leftover stew, don't worry – here's 10 ways to make the most of the situation.

And, if reading this, you are sad that you haven't got any stew left over then see here for how to stew or braise meat and then make plenty!

There are a great many ways to use up a bit of stew or braised meat, here are my favourite suggestions.

Soup from Leftover Stew

Depending on what sort of stew you have over you can either just dilute the remains with more stock, or possibly cream, stir into some existing soup (here are two beef soup recipes which would be great with a little leftover stew stirred in) or make up a whole new soup using my easy flexible soup recipe and include your leftovers.

 turn stew into soup

Turn Leftover Stew into a Pie !

If you have enough meat leftover make a pie by simply topping it with pastry and baking or if you have just a little stew and it's not too runny, it will be good for making turnovers .

homemade meat turnovers

Cottage and/or Shepherd's Pie

It all depends on the mash!

Basically top the stew with mashed potato. Here's something I didn't know! According to The Foods of England

difference between cottage pie and shepherd's pie

Make a Hotpot

Guidelines …

~   Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350°F/160ºC fan/gas 4.
~   Cover the base of an ovenproof dish with thinly sliced potato and season with a little salt and pepper.
~ Cover with the stew.
~ Top with another layer of thinly sliced potatoes and season them too.
~   Cover the pan tightly with foil and bake till the potatoes are tender – about 30 minutes.
~ Once the potatoes are tender remove the foil, brush the potatoes with a little melted butter and return and cook a little longer to brown the potatoes.

hotpot from leftover lamb stew

Sauce Pasta with Leftover Stew

Here's a picture of one I made earlier. Leftover braised steak and its accompanying sauce stirred together with penne pasta topped with pangrattato. Pangrattato is a wonderful, quick and very cheap way of upgrading almost any meal!

pasta in rich beef stew

Add to Risotto

Stir some stew leftovers through risotto . This Black Garlic Risotto would be very receptive to a little stewed or braised beef.

Serve with Eggs

If what you have leftover is mostly the sauce from the stew, try poaching eggs in it. Here is how to poach eggs , just replace the water with delicious gravy (bits of meat in it are all to the good). Or …

Serve the stew as part of a lovely Eggs Benedict variation.

eggsbenedict variation

3 More Quick Ideas for Leftover Stew

~   Use to fill baked potatoes.
~ Extend the stew with beans to make enough for a meal, if it's a beef stew maybe spice it up a and make some Chilli con Carne, for instance.
~   Eat on toast.

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What Can I Do With Leftover Cottage Cheese

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