Stews are excellent meals, many recipes exist out there and we all have some that we have made up ourselves, this is one that I have used many times:
First fry in some onions and garlic in a bit of oil, small temperature, so they don't burn. (5 to 10 minutes til they soften up)
Dice up 1 capsicum and 1 cellery.
When the onions have softened, add this to the mix and fry for a max of 10 minutes.
Dice up 1 chicken or turkey fillet. (approximately 500 grams = 1/2 a kg)
Add to the mix, keep stiring every now and then, as necessary for about 30 minutes.
1 can of beans
Salt
Vegeta
Garlic (ground or dried powder)
Pepper
&
Curry
Add these as per your liking, but don't ver do it!
Keep stiring after adding these ingredients for a total of 45 minutes. (chicken and beans must bee cooked)
In another pot heat up water with salt and cooking oil
Cook up a batch of pasta (500 grams = 1/2 kg)
So after the 45 minutes are up with our main mix, add the pasta and cook for an added 5 minutes.
Total to finish off is roughly 50 minutes of cooking and add on to that the dicing and prep time, roughly 1 hour in total.
A good tasty meal for the family in 60 minutes.