Beef stew with pearl barley

Beef stew is a classic British farmhouse dish packed with some of the best produce of English fields: beef, vegetables and pearl barley. The beef is slow-cooked with a spoonful of tamarind to create a depth of flavour and the potatoes, carrots and celeriac are finely sliced. As a result, this delicious winter favourite has just the right amount of ‘bite’.

How do you prepare Firepot Food pouches?

You just add boiling water! The two types of packaging require slightly different approaches.

• Meals in the brown 100% compostable packaging need to be emptied into a pot for rehydration. To rehydrate, add water, bring to the boil and leave to stand. Do not try to rehydrate in the brown packs, as they’ll start breaking down immediately!
• Meals in the yellow foil packaging can be rehydrated directly. Simply open the pouch, add boiling water up to the mark, give it a stir and leave to stand.

The Wild Woodgas Stove and 775ml MSR pot are a perfect combination for preparing either.

Firepot Food: Tasty, ethical, dehydrated meals from Dorset

Firepot food is quite simply the best dehydrated food we’ve ever tasted. Moreover, it challenges pre-conceptions about how dehydrated backpacking food is made, what ingredients go into it and even how it’s packaged.

Firepot Food is:

• hand-cooked by chefs in small batches
• made from 100% natural ingredients (many of which are local)
• dehydrated after cooking, not freeze-dried
• available in fully compostable packaging
• free from palm oil & artificial additives, and is lactose free.

Although we’re really into eating wild and hiking simply, sometimes it’s great to have a wholesome meal with you on a long hike which requires nothing but boiling water. This is why we are so delighted to have Firepot pouch food on our shelves. Firepot is a company that shares our ethos, and is based a few miles from our office – fuelling expeditions the world over.

Ingredients & nutrition

Weight: 110g (regular) / 165g (extra-large)

Calories: 520kcal (regular) / 780kcal (extra-large)

Water usage: 280ml (regular) / 420ml (extra-large)

Ingredients: Beef mince (30%), potato, celeriac, carrot, onion, celery, pearl barley, olive oil, beef stock, salt, pepper, treacle, cider vinegar, cornflour, tamarind, thyme.

Allergens: Celeriac, celery, pearl barley