Slow-Cooker Beef & Ale Dumpling Stew Recipe
341 Calories & 26.8g Protein per serving | Serves 8
Searching for the ultimate comfort dish? Well you’ve come to the right place, my slow cooker beef and ale stew with dumplings will deliver just that. This dish comes in at 419 cals per person including one dumpling, let’s go:
Ingredients
- 900g stewing beef
- 180g bacon
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 3 carrots chopped
- 2 onions chopped
- 2 celery sticks chopped
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1 tbsp tomato puree
- 2 tbsp corn flour
- 2 tbsp Henderson’s relish or Worcestershire relish
- 2 bay leaves
- Sprig of thyme
- 200ml beef stock
- 500ml ale (I used @kewgarden ale)
- 1 tbsp freshly chopped parsley
Dumplings: (78 cal per dumpling)
- 220g all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 salt
- 1 tbsp butter softened
- 1 tbsp freshly chopped parsley
- 100ml milk
Method:
- To a medium heat pan add your olive oil and in batches brown off your beef with 1 tbsp cornflour and set aside, in the same pan add your bacon cook until crispy then set aside.
- Add the browned beef and bacon to your slow cooker along with the rest of the ingredients. Cook on high for 4 hours or on low for 8 hours, 30 mins before serving add your dumplings (see below method) sprinkle some fresh parsley on top and tuck in. Enjoy!
Dumplings: Makes 8 (78 cal per dumpling)
- Combine flour, baking powder and salt into bowl, add your softened butter and blend together, stir in your milk until a wet dough has formed. It should be a thick dough but thin enough to drop from a wet spoon.
- Add to the stew and cook 5-10 mins uncovered then 20 mins covered.
