Sheena’s Stovies

Speyside

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Taste of the Highlands

By Ghillie Basan

Published 2021

  • About

Sheena Catto grew up on a farm in Aberdeenshire, and her husband, David, grew up in the Highlands, but they were both reared on stovies prepared in exactly the same way. A national dish, rather than a specifically Highland one, stovies is traditionally prepared with the end of the Sunday roast by putting the leftover meat in a pot for Monday’s dinner. A bowl of steaming stovies at a Highland Games or Show is welcome for its warmth on a blustery day as much