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. The dumpling are just three ingredients and can be added to the stew during the last hour of cooking. Or we suggest serving this with mashed potatoes - the ultimate in midweek comfort.

To get started with this recipe, we must first 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 it.

The ingredients needed to make Beef and Barley Stew with Dumplings (Slow Cooker):
  1. Prepare Stew
  2. Take onion (thickly chopped)
  3. Prepare stewing beef (diced)
  4. Prepare frozen peas
  5. Prepare carrot (thickly chopped)
  6. Prepare maris piper potatoes (peeled and cut into chunks)
  7. Get dried pearl barley
  8. Get beef or onion gravy granules
  9. Make ready cold water
  10. Make ready beef stock cubes
  11. Take dried thyme
  12. Take salt
  13. Take pepper
  14. Make ready Dumplings
  15. Prepare vegetable suet
  16. Prepare self-raising flour
  17. Make ready water (cold)
  18. Get dried thyme
  19. Take dried sage
  20. Get salt
  21. Get pepper

He hated Brussels Sprouts - until I make. 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. 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.

Steps 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.

Add the beef to the veg mixture in the slow cooker. Stir in either tomatoes or tomato soup - my kids like soup but not tomatoes! Stir stock cube into boiling water, add. 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.

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