Viking Stew | Food Wishes

This delicious Viking stew features ingredients typically used by the Norsemen over 1,000 years ago, including meat, berries, mushrooms, herbs, and root vegetables, and while the cooking methods are primitive, the resulting flavor is remarkably sophisticated. Enjoy!

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[Getpojke]

Nice looking stew/soup/pottage. Especially liked that you put some berries in there. Yup the orange carrot became available in the 16th Century, before that they were generally purple, yellow & white and usually a lot smaller. Parsnips would have been a more likely ingredient. They grow in scrappy, poor soils & survive cold weather. In fact we generally don't harvest parsnips 'till after the first frost as it sweetens them up. They store better than carrots, produce more food per acre & were a major food source for Medieval folks. (I love them) 😋

[Alverant]

I want Tasting History to do a historically accurate version of this.

[rchin]

Nice! I'm especially happy to see that even the Vikings used a Dutch oven. :) Greetings from the Netherlands.

[sarakott]

Dear Chef John and All Food Wishers lot's of Love from a Proud Danish Viking Girl 💖

[certaindeaf]

❤ I'm glad you said the generic "meat" as beef was a very rare treat, with pork being the mainstay of the olde norse.

[andrewkrahn]

To avoid seeds, if you're in a colder place you might be able to find haskap/honeyberries. They look like a long blueberry and taste like you crossed one with a sweet-tart, but they're related to honeysuckle. Some can taste like other fruits, like banana.

They're from around siberia and stain your hands blood red.

[lisajusko]

I need to thank you so much for teaching us to never let the food win! I almost threw away the dish I just made, not your recipe. It was way too spicy. I added coconut milk and honey to it. Now, it is out of this world! My brother also ruined a dish because he let the sauce dry up. I explained to him all he needed to do was replace the evaporated water with water. Your advice to never let the food win has been the most valuable lesson I have ever learned. Thank you!

[SuperJPQ]

This is the pinnacle of YT cooking shows, shove a load of stuff in a pot and it tastes nice. I watched everything of course and enjoyed, as always.

[matthewwrice]

This dish will likely inspire you to liberate all of the tangible goods from the neighboring village or take a nap. I'm willing to take my chances to experience this historically challenged gem of a recipe. Thanks chef!

[theonetruesarauniya]

This just made me smile. Viking chef John cosplay would be awesome. Would've been thought to add the berries to the raw meat. So good! I'll give this a try minus the fennel... Because fennel is from the devil.

Hope you and your lovely wife had a good staycation.

Much love!

[Elsje]

My parents have a Hungarian gulash kettle to cook over open fire. It is practically never used. This video inspires me to make a nice stew in it again ❤

[commentiquette]

I can't wait to make this, thanks Chef John!

[bkm]

Looks delicious John, I like it as a soup, and thanks for recommending removal of the seeds from the blackberries. Thank you, hope you have a lovely weekend!

[tomjefferson]

Looks awesome, been watching you for over 10 years and it never gets old. Thank you for showing me how to cook<3

[phillipj]

0:13 tasting history felt those shots fired.

[kaylahensley]

Thanks for this. I’m in the middle of a Vikings binge on ye olde Netflix so the timing is impeccable.

[TalMag]

"You're the thor of how to cut your boar" :)

[GeoffShouldWin]

When do I add the viking? I need to know before the cops show up.

[lleberghappy]

This is, apart from the honey and blackberries, very similar to the Swedish Köttsoppa "meat soup". Its so good.

[TastySchu]

😂😂😂 if you can't or won't? Chef John, you're the best. My mil is basically Nowegian 99.9% & her hubby, my fil, is 99.9% German. So, my hubby is a huge, blonde, blue-eyed German/Norwegian man. I'll have to share this video with them 😂😂😂. This video was just hilarious 🤭😉👌.