Stovies is a traditional Scottish

Scotland

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 dish. Recipes and ingredients vary widely between regions, and even families, but the dish contains potato

Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family . The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species...

es, usually (but not always) onion

Onion

The onion , also known as the bulb onion, common onion and garden onion, is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The genus Allium also contains a number of other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion The onion...

s and often (but again not always) leftover roast beef, corned beef, mince or other meat.

The potatoes are cooked by stewing with fat and stock; stove also having the meaning of stew or to stew in Scots

Scots language

Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster . It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language variety spoken in most of the western Highlands and in the Hebrides.Since there are no universally accepted...

. Lard, beef dripping or butter may be used.

It is also popular to stew the potatoes just in water with the onions before adding the roast beef

Roast beef

Roast beef is a dish of beef which is roasted in an oven. Essentially prepared as a main meal, the leftovers can be and are often served within sandwiches and sometimes is used to make hash...

, mince

Mince

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 or corned beef

Corned beef

Corned beef is a type of salt-cured beef products present in many beef-eating cultures. The English term is used interchangeably in modernity to refer to three distinct types of cured beef:...

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Stovies may be accompanied by oatcake

Oatcake

An oatcake is a type of cracker or pancake, made from oatmeal, and sometimes flour as well. Oatcakes are cooked on a griddle or baked in an oven.- Scottish oatcakes :...

s.

External links

• "Stove" in the Dictionary of the Scots Language
  Dictionary of the Scots Language
  The Dictionary of the Scots Language is an online Scots-English dictionary, now run by Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd, a charity and limited company...
  
  
• Head Chef of Glasgow
  Glasgow
  Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
  
  's Oran Mor Restaurant states that the dish can be created from any ingredients left in your fridge