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Scottish stovies are the ultimate in Scottish comfort food. Made with the leftovers from Sunday night's roast dinner, it's a super easy Monday meal to make. Serve with oatcakes and sliced beetroot for a true taste of Scotland.  #Scottishfood #lamb #stovies

Scottish Stovies Recipe

Published on May 15, 2019 by Elizabeth Atia
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Scottish stovies are the ultimate in Scottish comfort food. Made with the leftovers from Sunday night's roast dinner, it's a super easy Monday meal to make. Serve with oatcakes and sliced beetroot for a true taste of Scotland.  #Scottishfood #lamb #stovies
Scottish stovies are the ultimate in Scottish comfort food. Made with the leftovers from Sunday night's roast dinner, it's a super easy Monday meal to make. Serve with oatcakes and sliced beetroot for a true taste of Scotland.  #Scottishfood #lamb #stovies

Scottish stovies are the ultimate comfort food. Made with the leftovers from Sunday’s roast dinner, it’s a super easy Monday meal to make. Serve with oatcakes and sliced beetroot for the perfect Sunday leftovers meal. This recipe has been made in collaboration with Try Lamb.

Scottish stovies are the ultimate in Scottish comfort food. Made with the leftovers from Sunday night's roast dinner, it's a super easy Monday meal to make. Serve with oatcakes and sliced beetroot for a true taste of Scotland.  #Scottishfood #lamb #stovies

Table of Contents

  • Scottish comfort food at its finest
  • Ingredients for Scottish Stovies
  • How to make Scottish Stovies – step by step instructions
  • Scottish Stovies – Recipe Video
  • Stovies – Cookery for Northern Wives
  • Scottish Stovies Recipe

Scottish comfort food at its finest

Nothing beats a proper Sunday roast lamb, except perhaps, for the leftovers.

No cooking on Monday, woohoo! Leftover roast lamb is an incredibly versatile ingredient – you can make it into soups, sandwiches, stir-fries, or, as we do here in Scotland, stovies!

Scottish stovies are comfort food at its finest, and this slow-cooked dish can be enjoyed where ever you live in the British Isles or worldwide. Every family has its own way of making it, and the beauty of this ‘recipe’ (and I use the word loosely), is that you can make it however you want. Use whatever leftovers you’ve got – cubed roast lamb, leftover roast vegetables, leftover gravy – and make it as solid or liquid as you like by adjusting the quantities accordingly.

Ingredients for Scottish Stovies Recipe photo

Ingredients for Scottish Stovies

  • lard (or butter or olive oil)
  • brown onion
  • leftover Sunday roast lamb
  • turnip
  • potatoes
  • leftover lamb gravy
  • water
  • salt
  • pepper

How to make Scottish Stovies

How to make Scottish Stovies – step by step instructions

  1. Heat lard in a large pan over medium-high heat and fry the onions until they soften (don’t let them colour!).
  2. Add your diced, cold, leftover roast lamb.
  3. Add half of a small peeled, chopped turnip.
  4. Cover with a layer of peeled, thickly sliced potatoes.
  5. Pour in any leftover gravy you have and enough water to reach just under the layer of potatoes.
  6. Pop the lid on and cook on medium heat for 30 minutes, until the potatoes are tender, shaking the pan occasionally. 

Scottish Stovies – Recipe Video

Scottish Stovies

Scottish stovies are the ultimate in Scottish comfort food. Made with the leftovers from Sunday’s roast dinner, it’s a super easy Monday meal to make. Serve with oatcakes and sliced beetroot for an authentic taste of Scotland.

An ice cold glass of milk often accompanies too. 

You can also serve it with lashings of brown sauce if desired.

Scottish stovies are the ultimate in Scottish comfort food. Made with the leftovers from Sunday night's roast dinner, it's a super easy Monday meal to make. Serve with oatcakes and sliced beetroot for a true taste of Scotland.  #Scottishfood #lamb #stovies

Stovies – Cookery for Northern Wives

In 1925, Shetlander Margaret B. Stout published a cookery book about Shetland Islands recipes: Cookery for Northern Wives. One of these recipes was for stovies, which she describes as:

  • One and a half pounds of Mutton.
  • One pound of potatoes.
  • Pepper and Salt.
  • One onion. Half a small Turnip.
  • One tablespoonful of Suet.

Method: Cut mutton up finely; chop suet; put these into pan and pour on enough boiling water to cover; simmer gently for one hour. Chop onion finely, grate turnip and potato; add these and stew gently for another hour; season and serve hot.

This is a perfect example of simple, honest, Scottish home cooking, and the reason why I include turnip in this Stovies recipe. You could also include carrot or even any leftover roast vegetables you have from your Sunday roast. Just add these in at the end of cooking, to warm through.

How do you make your Stovies? Let me know in the comments!

Scottish stovies are the ultimate in Scottish comfort food. Made with the leftovers from Sunday night's roast dinner, it's a super easy Monday meal to make. Serve with oatcakes and sliced beetroot for a true taste of Scotland.  #Scottishfood #lamb #stovies

Scottish stovies are the ultimate in Scottish comfort food. Made with the leftovers from Sunday night's roast dinner, it's a super easy Monday meal to make. Serve with oatcakes and sliced beetroot for a true taste of Scotland.  #Scottishfood #lamb #stovies

Scottish Stovies Recipe

Scottish stovies are the ultimate in Scottish comfort food. Made with the leftovers from Sunday night’s roast dinner, it’s a super easy Monday meal to make. Serve with oatcakes and sliced beetroot for a true taste of Scotland. 
3.5 from 2 votes
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Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Scottish
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 525kcal
Author: Elizabeth

Ingredients

Metric - US Cup Measures
  • 2 tbsp lard or butter or olive oil
  • 1 large brown onion finely chopped
  • 450 grams leftover roast lamb cubed
  • 0.5 small turnip peeled and chopped
  • 700 grams potatoes peeled and thickly sliced
  • 250 ml leftover lamb gravy
  • cold water to cover
  • Shetland sea salt to taste
  • freshly ground black pepper to taste
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Instructions 

  • Heat lard in a large pot over a medium-high heat. Fry the onion until softened, but without colouring it.
  • Add the cubed lamb and diced turnip.
  • Layer over the potatoes, and pour over the leftover gravy.
  • Add enough water to come up just underneath the layer of the potatoes.
  • Season well, pop the lid on and simmer for 30 minutes, until the potatoes are tender.

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Nutrition

Calories: 525kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 24g | Fat: 35g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Cholesterol: 87mg | Sodium: 440mg | Potassium: 1042mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin C: 24.3mg | Calcium: 79mg | Iron: 7.5mg

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Other Leftover Roast Lamb Recipes

A collection of our other leftover Sunday roast lamb recipes.

Leftover Roast Lamb Soup with Split Peas & Spelt

This leftover roast lamb soup is ready in just under half an hour if you use a pressure cooker. It makes for a perfect packed lunch to fill you up with plenty of vegetables, pearled spelt and green split peas.

Leftover Roast Lamb & Winter Vegetable Soup

A hearty & filling soup made with homemade lamb bone broth, leftover roast lamb and seasonal winter vegetables.

Leftover Roast Lamb & Mint Sausage Rolls

Perfect for picnics, this simple sausage roll recipe will be sure to impress children and adults alike.

Roasted Lamb & Mini Bannock Christmas Canapés

A simple make-ahead Christmas Canapé of roasted lamb on a mini bannock topped with mint or redcurrant jelly

15-Minute One-Pan Lamb & Quinoa Midweek Supper

A quick and easy midweek supper made with leftover Sunday roast lamb (or any other cooked lamb). Proper comfort food!

This is a sponsored recipe post in collaboration with Try Lamb, a European campaign designed to encourage family cooks to include lamb on the dinner table in simple, easy, flavoursome ways. Thank you for supporting the brands who make it possible for me to do what I love: mess up my kitchen and share recipe stories.

Category: 30 Minute Meals, Hoof & Feather, Lamb, Recipe, Sponsored Post

About Elizabeth Atia

Daydream adventurer. Expat Canadian. Foodie. Calls Shetland home.

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  1. Kara

    May 23, 2019 at 6:18 pm

    No good reading recipes when I am hungry – this looks amazing

    Reply
  2. Playdays and Runways

    May 23, 2019 at 6:57 am

    Looks and sounds delicious. Perfect for a chilly evening to warm you up.

    Reply
  3. Melanie williams

    May 20, 2019 at 10:16 am

    Now this is proper comfort food for sure. My other half would love this xx

    Reply
  4. Lilinha

    May 19, 2019 at 12:06 am

    Such a lovely recipe, perfect to use up leftover meat and reduce waste.

    Reply
  5. Anosa

    May 17, 2019 at 5:57 pm

    What a hearty dish, it looks so yummy and filling, definitely want this for the weekend.

    Reply
  6. Laura Dove

    May 16, 2019 at 10:06 pm

    Ooh this looks like my kind of meal! I love proper, filling, hearty recipes, although in this house there is never left overs, haha!

    Reply
  7. Sarah Bailey

    May 16, 2019 at 6:32 pm

    Now this sounds like a delicious recipe. It seems like it would be really warming and filling to tuck into at the end of a long day.

    Reply
  8. MELANIE EDJOURIAN

    May 16, 2019 at 12:37 pm

    5 stars
    This sounds like the sort of recipe my husband would love. He enjoys a meaty, hearty meal.

    Reply

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