Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, beef and barley stew with dumplings (slow cooker). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook beef and barley stew with dumplings (slow cooker) using 21 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Beef and Barley Stew with Dumplings (Slow Cooker):
- Take Stew
- Prepare 2 large onion (thickly chopped)
- Get 450 grams stewing beef (diced)
- Take 4 tbsp frozen peas
- Take 3 carrot (thickly chopped)
- Prepare 2 medium maris piper potatoes (peeled and cut into chunks)
- Get 40 grams dried pearl barley
- Get 3 tbsp beef or onion gravy granules
- Make ready 800 ml cold water
- Prepare 2 beef stock cubes
- Get 1 tsp dried thyme
- Get 1 pinch salt
- Take 1 pinch pepper
- Get Dumplings
- Take 50 grams vegetable suet
- Make ready 100 grams self-raising flour
- Take 4 tbsp water (cold)
- Take 1 tsp dried thyme
- Make ready 1 tsp dried sage
- Take 1 pinch salt
- Make ready 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.
Instructions 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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