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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. Making a beef and dumpling casserole just got a lot easier thanks to the help of a slow cooker! Slow cookers allow you to throw everything into the bowl, walk away and return to a.
To begin with this recipe, we have to 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 that.
The ingredients needed to make Beef and Barley Stew with Dumplings (Slow Cooker):
- Take Stew
- Prepare 2 large onion (thickly chopped)
- Prepare 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)
- 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
- Prepare 1 tsp dried thyme
- Make ready 1 pinch salt
- Make ready 1 pinch pepper
- Prepare Dumplings
- Prepare 50 grams vegetable suet
- Take 100 grams self-raising flour
- Get 4 tbsp water (cold)
- Prepare 1 tsp dried thyme
- Make ready 1 tsp dried sage
- Take 1 pinch salt
- Get 1 pinch pepper
By late afternoon, you'll have one mouthwatering pot of stew. When you get a craving — especially if it's for beef and barley stew when snow clouds are building outside — it's best to just give in and make it. 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. If you've got a slow cooker, this is a winter warmer the whole family can enjoy. [Listen with sound to find out why the hubby is on the naughty step].
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.
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. Scatter prechopped vegetables and carrots around beef. 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.
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