Rich beef stew with dumplings
Rich beef stew with dumplings

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For the beef stew, heat the oil and butter in an ovenproof casserole and fry the beef until browned on all sides. Sprinkle over the flour and cook for a further To serve, place a spoonful of mashed potato onto each of four serving plates and top with the stew and dumplings. Beef stew with dumplings is a simple and delicious crockpot recipe, made with baby carrots, onion, garlic, and marjoram.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have rich beef stew with dumplings using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Rich beef stew with dumplings:
  1. Take 800 g diced beef
  2. Prepare 150 g smoked bacon
  3. Get 1 large onion
  4. Prepare 3 cloves garlic
  5. Take 3 carrots
  6. Prepare 200 g mushrooms (fresh wild mushrooms if you can get them button mushrooms if not)
  7. Make ready 12 whole small salad potatoes
  8. Take 200 g beef suet
  9. Get 400 g self raising flour
  10. Take fresh thyme
  11. Make ready olive oil
  12. Make ready 250 ml double cream
  13. Get 1 beef stock pot or fresh beef stock
  14. Get 500 ml stout or other dark beer
  15. Make ready 4 bay leaves
  16. Prepare to taste salt
  17. Take 1 tsp ground black pepper

Add to the onion pan along with the vegetables, the Empty back into the casserole and bring to the boil on the hob. John Torode's crowd-warming beef stew is delicious and dead simple, from BBC Good Food. Pop the dumplings into the casserole dish, leave off the lid and return to the oven. A beef stew just ain't right without them and they were and remain my favourite part of this dish.

Steps to make Rich beef stew with dumplings:
  1. Chop the bacon into approx 2cm squares, the garlic resaonably coarsely and slice the onion.
  2. Fry the bacon in a large pan in some olive oil until it begins to brown.
  3. Add the onions and fry until translucent stirring all the time.
  4. In a very hot heavy bottomed frying pan or dutch oven sear the beef in batches.
  5. Add the beef and the garlic to the pan and stir thoroughly.
  6. Pour in the stout, bring to a simmer and turn the heat low.
  7. Add the broken up mushrooms,
  8. The carrots
  9. And the potatoes, top up with some water or beef stock, stir and bring back to a simmer. Add a stock pot if you don't use fresh beef stock.
  10. Add the bay leaves and a few sprigs of thyme, stir and simmer on a very low heat for 30 minutes. I tend to vary the herbs in this recipe. I find any combination of fresh thyme, sage, rosemary and oregano works.
  11. While the stew is simmering, make the dumplings. Mix the flour, the suet, some fresh thyme leaves and about 1/2 a tsp of salt together.
  12. Add water a little at a time stirring all the time until you have a soft dough mix.
  13. After simmering for 30 minutes, add the cream a little at a time stirring it in between each pour. Taste the stew at this stage and if needed add some salt. Add the pepper. You can get a more traditional stew by leaving out the cream.
  14. With a table or desert spoon, spoon in the dumpling mixture. Cover and simmer gently for another 30 minutes or until the dumplings are cooked throughout.

My suet dumpling recipe and method leads to a crispy topping and soft and squidgy underbelly. But you could equally keep them soft by adding them and cooking with a lid on rather than off. Place the beef, in batches, onto a large plate with the flour and seasoning. Meanwhile, place the mushrooms into a bowl and. Meanwhile, to make dumplings, sift flour into a bowl; season.

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