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Dry the beef pieces with kitchen paper and dust with the plain flour (tapping off excess). Add to the slow cooker together with the wine, stock, rosemary and some seasoning. James Martin's beef stew with dumplings may take a little while to cook but it is well worth the wait.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have rich beef stew with dumplings using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Rich beef stew with dumplings:
- Make ready 800 g diced beef
- Get 150 g smoked bacon
- Take 1 large onion
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic
- Prepare 3 carrots
- Take 200 g mushrooms (fresh wild mushrooms if you can get them button mushrooms if not)
- Take 12 whole small salad potatoes
- Get 200 g beef suet
- Prepare 400 g self raising flour
- Make ready fresh thyme
- Prepare olive oil
- Get 250 ml double cream
- Take 1 beef stock pot or fresh beef stock
- Take 500 ml stout or other dark beer
- Get 4 bay leaves
- Get to taste salt
- Take 1 tsp ground black pepper
I like to use sweet swede in this stew but potato or celeriac can also be used. Cook onion and garlic in same pan until tender. Return meat to pan with water, parsley, salt, pepper, and bay leaf. When the beef is close to being tender, prepare the dumplings.
Instructions to make Rich beef stew with dumplings:
- Chop the bacon into approx 2cm squares, the garlic resaonably coarsely and slice the onion.
- Fry the bacon in a large pan in some olive oil until it begins to brown.
- Add the onions and fry until translucent stirring all the time.
- In a very hot heavy bottomed frying pan or dutch oven sear the beef in batches.
- Add the beef and the garlic to the pan and stir thoroughly.
- Pour in the stout, bring to a simmer and turn the heat low.
- Add the broken up mushrooms,
- The carrots
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Add water a little at a time stirring all the time until you have a soft dough mix.
- 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.
- 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.
Mix flour, salt and pepper together in a bowl. Dredge beef cubes in flour and remove, shaking off excess flour. For the beef stew, heat the oil and butter in an ovenproof casserole and fry the beef until browned on all sides. Put the flour in a large mixing bowl and season. Toss a third of the beef in flour to coat, shaking off excess.
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