Ingredients :
- 800 g diced beef
- 150 g smoked bacon
- 1 large onion
- 3 cloves garlic
- 3 carrots
- 200 g mushrooms (fresh wild mushrooms if you can get them button mushrooms if not)
- 12 whole small salad potatoes
- 200 g beef suet
- 400 g self raising flour
- fresh thyme
- olive oil
- 250 ml double cream
- 1 beef stock pot or fresh beef stock
- 500 ml stout or other dark beer
- 4 bay leaves
- to taste salt
- 1 tsp ground black pepper
Method :
- Chop the bacon into approx 2cm squares, the garlic resaonably coarsely and slice the onion.
- Fry the bacon in a large pan in some olive oil until it begins to brown.
- Add the onions and fry until translucent stirring all the time.
- In a very hot heavy bottomed frying pan or dutch oven sear the beef in batches.
- Add the beef and the garlic to the pan and stir thoroughly.
- Pour in the stout, bring to a simmer and turn the heat low.
- Add the broken up mushrooms,
- The carrots
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Add water a little at a time stirring all the time until you have a soft dough mix.
- 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.
- 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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