Rich beef stew with dumplings

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Rich beef stew with dumplings is 4 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Rich beef stew with dumplings estimated approx 75 mins.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook Rich beef stew with dumplings using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

This is a basic one pot beef and carrot stew with herb dumplings. Basically a dinner in a pot as most of my recipes are.

Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Rich beef stew with dumplings:

1. 800 g diced beef
2. 150 g smoked bacon
3. 1 large onion
4. 3 cloves garlic
5. 3 carrots
6. 200 g mushrooms (fresh wild mushrooms if you can get them button mushrooms if not)
7. 12 whole small salad potatoes
8. 200 g beef suet
9. 400 g self raising flour
10. fresh thyme
11. olive oil
12. 250 ml double cream
13. 1 beef stock pot or fresh beef stock
14. 500 ml stout or other dark beer
15. 4 bay leaves
16. to taste salt
17. 1 tsp ground black pepper

Instructions to make to make Rich beef stew with dumplings

1. Chop the bacon into approx 2cm squares, the garlic resaonably coarsely and slice the onion.
2. Fry the bacon in a large pan in some olive oil until it begins to brown.
3. Add the onions and fry until translucent stirring all the time.
4. In a very hot heavy bottomed frying pan or dutch oven sear the beef in batches.
5. Add the beef and the garlic to the pan and stir thoroughly.
6. Pour in the stout, bring to a simmer and turn the heat low.
7. Add the broken up mushrooms,
8. The carrots
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Add water a little at a time stirring all the time until you have a soft dough mix.
13. 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.
14. 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.

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