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This slow cooker beef stew recipe doesn't require you to brown the beef, which makes it perfect time saving dinner. The dumpling are just three ingredients and can be added to the stew during the last hour of cooking. Or we suggest serving this with mashed potatoes - the ultimate in midweek comfort.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have beef and barley stew with dumplings (slow cooker) using 21 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Beef and Barley Stew with Dumplings (Slow Cooker):
- Make ready Stew
- Take 2 large onion (thickly chopped)
- Get 450 grams stewing beef (diced)
- Make ready 4 tbsp frozen peas
- Take 3 carrot (thickly chopped)
- Take 2 medium maris piper potatoes (peeled and cut into chunks)
- Take 40 grams dried pearl barley
- Make ready 3 tbsp beef or onion gravy granules
- Make ready 800 ml cold water
- Get 2 beef stock cubes
- Make ready 1 tsp dried thyme
- Make ready 1 pinch salt
- Take 1 pinch pepper
- Prepare Dumplings
- Prepare 50 grams vegetable suet
- Take 100 grams self-raising flour
- Prepare 4 tbsp water (cold)
- Take 1 tsp dried thyme
- Get 1 tsp dried sage
- Prepare 1 pinch salt
- Prepare 1 pinch pepper
He hated Brussels Sprouts - until I make. Some sort of magic happens over the long, controlled simmer in the slow cooker: The barley cooks to tender-chewy perfection, the inexpensive and tough beef becomes meltingly tender, and the liquid thickens to a beautiful gravy. Healthy, warming, filling beef stew that is easy to make. Ideal family recipe, great in winter, lovely to come back to after a day out.
Steps to make Beef and Barley Stew with Dumplings (Slow Cooker):
- Place all the stew ingredients into a slow cooker and leave to cook on high heat for 4 hours.
- Mix the suet, flour, herbs and seasoning in a medium sized bowl. Gradually add cold water and mix until the mixture resembles a thick dough. Divide into 8 balls and place on top of the stew. Cover and cook for 3 more hours.
Add the beef to the veg mixture in the slow cooker. Stir in either tomatoes or tomato soup - my kids like soup but not tomatoes! Stir stock cube into boiling water, add. Into the slow cooker, add in barley, bay leaves, better than bullion and season with salt. Check while it's cooking to see if it's ready.
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