How to Make Perfect Beef Stew and Dumplings

Beef Stew and Dumplings.

You can have Beef Stew and Dumplings using 19 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Beef Stew and Dumplings

1. You need of Stew.
2. Prepare 25 grams of plain flour.
3. Prepare 450 grams of braising steak, diced.
4. Prepare 50 grams of carrots, diced.
5. It's 25 grams of 1 onion, finely diced.
6. It's 50 grams of leek, sliced.
7. Prepare 50 grams of celery, diced.
8. You need 300 ml of stout.
9. Prepare 600 ml of beef stock.
10. Prepare 25 grams of tomato puree.
11. It's 100 grams of mushrooms, quartered.
12. It's 1 of bay leaf.
13. Prepare of Dumplings.
14. It's 225 grams of plain flour.
15. Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
16. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
17. It's 100 grams of shredded beef suet.
18. It's 2 of sage leaf, finely chopped.
19. You need 75 ml of cold chicken stock.

Beef Stew and Dumplings instructions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 1upC/325F/Gas 3..
2. Season the flour and use to coat the meat. Heat the lard in an ovenproof casserole. Add the meat and cook until browned. Remove with a slottet spoon..
3. Add the onion, carrots,leek and celery and cook for 7m until lightlg browned. Stir in the remaining flour. Add the stout and stock, stirring well. Bring to the noil. Stir in the tomato puree, meat, musbrooms and bay leaf and cook for 2hours until tender..
4. To make dumplings sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Stir in the suet and sage. Add enough stock to form a smooth dough. Divide the douhh inyo twelve and lightly roll inyo balls. Add to the stew 15 minutes befor the end of the cooking time. Cover and cook until the dumplings are risen..