Viking Stew | Food Wishes

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Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with Viking stew. That's right, I love anything Vikings. So, I decided to make a stew similar to what they might have enjoyed.

But don't worry, this is not one of those thoroughly researched recipes that's accurate and doesn't taste good.

Oh, no. This one's poorly researched, but very delicious, especially with the Viking flatbread we're going to talk about later. But first things first, and to get started, we have to cut up our meat, which ideally is a wild boar we killed with our own hands. But if you can't or won't do that, you could just use a pork shoulder from the store.

And as usual, if there are some natural separations in the meat, we can start our cuts there. And I'm going to try to

cut this into about 2in pieces. But really, the size is up to you. I mean, you are, after all, the Valkyrie of how big these chunks should be. And as long as you cut the pieces fairly uniform, you're going to be fine. Oh, and if you're not into pork, there are a lot of other options the Vikings would have had a thousand years ago. And you could use beef or lamb or goat or venison or even bear if you dare.

But no matter what you use, once we cut that up, we will transfer it into a nice big pot or a Dutch oven like this, and we will season it up with some salt,