Beef and Barley Stew with Dumplings (Slow Cooker)
Beef and Barley Stew with Dumplings (Slow Cooker)

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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 get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook beef and barley stew with dumplings (slow cooker) using 21 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Beef and Barley Stew with Dumplings (Slow Cooker):
  1. Take Stew
  2. Get 2 large onion (thickly chopped)
  3. Prepare 450 grams stewing beef (diced)
  4. Get 4 tbsp frozen peas
  5. Take 3 carrot (thickly chopped)
  6. Make ready 2 medium maris piper potatoes (peeled and cut into chunks)
  7. Take 40 grams dried pearl barley
  8. Get 3 tbsp beef or onion gravy granules
  9. Get 800 ml cold water
  10. Prepare 2 beef stock cubes
  11. Take 1 tsp dried thyme
  12. Take 1 pinch salt
  13. Take 1 pinch pepper
  14. Make ready Dumplings
  15. Make ready 50 grams vegetable suet
  16. Take 100 grams self-raising flour
  17. Prepare 4 tbsp water (cold)
  18. Take 1 tsp dried thyme
  19. Make ready 1 tsp dried sage
  20. Take 1 pinch salt
  21. Prepare 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):
  1. Place all the stew ingredients into a slow cooker and leave to cook on high heat for 4 hours.
  2. 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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