Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, beef and barley stew with dumplings (slow cooker). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a 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. 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.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. 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):
- Prepare Stew
- Make ready 2 large onion (thickly chopped)
- Get 450 grams stewing beef (diced)
- Prepare 4 tbsp frozen peas
- Get 3 carrot (thickly chopped)
- Get 2 medium maris piper potatoes (peeled and cut into chunks)
- Take 40 grams dried pearl barley
- Get 3 tbsp beef or onion gravy granules
- Make ready 800 ml cold water
- Make ready 2 beef stock cubes
- Get 1 tsp dried thyme
- Get 1 pinch salt
- Make ready 1 pinch pepper
- Make ready Dumplings
- Take 50 grams vegetable suet
- Get 100 grams self-raising flour
- Get 4 tbsp water (cold)
- Take 1 tsp dried thyme
- Take 1 tsp dried sage
- Make ready 1 pinch salt
- Make ready 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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