Slow Cooker Beef and Guinness Stew with Dumplings
Beef slow cooked in Guinness, with fluffy mustard dumplings.
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Equipment
- Slow Cooker
- Frying Pan
Ingredients
- 800 g Diced braising beef
- 2 tbsp Plain flour For coating the beef
- Pinch Salt
- Pinch Pepper
- 440 ml Guinness
- 3 cloves Garlic Minced
- 150 g Shallots or pearl onions Chopped, or whole if small
- 200 g Chantenay Carrots Trimmed and quartered
- 200 ml Beef stock
- 3 tbsp Tomato puree
- 5 sprigs Fresh thyme
- 2 Bay leaves
- 2 tbsp Olive oil
- Hanful Fresh parsley Chopped, to serve
For the dumplings
- 50 g Suet
- 100 g Self-raising flour
- 1 tbsp Wholegrain mustard
- 4 tbsp Warm Water
- Pinch Salt
Instructions
- Dust diced beef with plain flour and add a pinch of salt and pepper.
- With a little oil in a hot pan, lightly brown the beef on all sides.
- Remove the beef then sauté diced shallots for 2-3 minutes, add in minced garlic for a further 1-2 minutes, then stir in tomato puree.
- Transfer the beef, shallots and garlic to the slow cooker. Add in chopped carrots.
- Pour in Guinness and add a beef stock cube.
- Add fresh thyme and bay leaves.
- Cook for 3 hours on high or 6-7 hours on low. (Remember you need another hour for the dumplings later!)
For the dumplings
- Mix suet, self raising flour, salt, wholegrain mustard and a little warm water in a bowl. Mix into a dough with your hands.
- Split the dough into 8 small dumplings.
- Add to the slow cooker and set to high for 1 hour.
Notes
Nutrition calculations only account for the ingredients stated in the slow cooker recipe. Serving suggestions such as rice and potatoes are not included. Remember to account for the nutritional values of anything you choose to accompany the recipe with.
Nutrition
Calories: 881kcalCarbohydrates: 37gProtein: 41gFat: 60gSaturated Fat: 23gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 27gTrans Fat: 2gCholesterol: 151mgSodium: 325mgPotassium: 984mgFiber: 4gSugar: 6gVitamin A: 7024IUVitamin C: 8mgCalcium: 89mgIron: 6mg
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