Traditional Beef Stew
A stew, in the cold winter months is such a nourishing family meal. The beauty behind it is that you can pop it on top of the cooker or in the oven and just forget about it for an hour or two and it will happily cook away.
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Recipe - Wexford St Aidans - Pettitts
Traditional Beef Stew
Prep Time25 Minutes
Servings4
Cook Time120 Minutes
Ingredients
750 ml Beef Stock
2 Carrots diced
2 sticks Celery diced
50 g Mushrooms sliced
1.5 medium Onion diced
30 g Plain Flour
600 g SuperValu Fresh Irish Stewing Beef
1 tsp SuperValu Tomato Purée
1 pinch Salt
200 g Self-Raising Flour
60 ml SuperValu Buttermilk
1 dstspn SuperValu Fresh Parsley chopped
Directions
- In a large saucepan heat a little oil. Add the stewing beef and fry quickly until coloured or sealed all over. Add the vegetables with the sealed beef and mix them well around and cook for 3-4 minutes until all the vegetables are coloured and glazed as well as the beef.
- Next, add the tomato puree and sprinkle the 30g flour. Stir to coat and colour the flour.
- Pour in the stock and allow to come to the boil and then reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and cook for 2 hours, covered until the meat and vegetables are tender and the sauce is a nice consistency.
- Meanwhile, make the dumpling. Mix the flour, salt, finely diced onion and fresh parsley together. Mix well.
- Gently stir in the buttermilk, do not add all the buttermilk at once because it may not take all of the liquid. Knead the dough very gently, just until it comes together and then cut out the dumplings using a pastry cutter. They should be no thicker that ¾ inch. leave them to set in the fridge until required.
- About ½ hour before the stew is ready, drop in the dumplings. Leave them to cook in the stew for about 25-30 minutes.
25 minutes
Prep Time
120 minutes
Cook Time
4
Servings
Shop Ingredients
Makes 4 servings
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Recipe
- In a large saucepan heat a little oil. Add the stewing beef and fry quickly until coloured or sealed all over. Add the vegetables with the sealed beef and mix them well around and cook for 3-4 minutes until all the vegetables are coloured and glazed as well as the beef.
- Next, add the tomato puree and sprinkle the 30g flour. Stir to coat and colour the flour.
- Pour in the stock and allow to come to the boil and then reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and cook for 2 hours, covered until the meat and vegetables are tender and the sauce is a nice consistency.
- Meanwhile, make the dumpling. Mix the flour, salt, finely diced onion and fresh parsley together. Mix well.
- Gently stir in the buttermilk, do not add all the buttermilk at once because it may not take all of the liquid. Knead the dough very gently, just until it comes together and then cut out the dumplings using a pastry cutter. They should be no thicker that ¾ inch. leave them to set in the fridge until required.
- About ½ hour before the stew is ready, drop in the dumplings. Leave them to cook in the stew for about 25-30 minutes.