Brunswick Stew Recipe

Brunswick stew is a thick tomato based stew popular in Southern USA, it contains lima beans, corn, potatoes, okra, other vegetables and meat. Meats used can be either pork or chicken but experts says authentic ones uses squirrel, opossum or rabbit meat.

The origin of the dish is still unknown but three locations compete for its origin, Georgia, Virginia and Germany. There are some key differences on each American version, the Virginian version usually uses chicken and/or rabbit and the Georgian version uses pork and beef. The Virginian version also claimed that the dish was created in 1828 but the Georgian version says that it wasn’t created up until 1898.

Each of these places have their tales to tell, in Virginia it was said…