brown stew

Definitions

1. 1

   A stew in which the meat is browned before being added

   • For a brown stew, the meat and sometimes the vegetables are browned in hot fat before being simmered
   • For the duffs are now brown, and the stew is brown stew, They're all fancy names for the scoff.
   • The menu in respect of each day of the week ended 11th September, 1959, for a Dublin Barracks was as follows:— ... [Date] 9-9-59 ... [Dinner] Brown Stew [etc.]
2. 2

   A stew cooked or served with a brown-coloured sauce

   • Increasingly preferred was the method known as "brown stew". Sullivan had recommended adding a brown gravy to broiled kingfish and stewing junefish in a brown sauce, thickened with flour.
   • Brown Stew is simply a meat/fish dish in gravy.

The neighborhood

• antonymwhite stewantonym(s) of “stew in which the meat is browned before being added”