Recipe: Perfect Beef and Barley Stew with Dumplings (Slow Cooker)

Beef and Barley Stew with Dumplings (Slow Cooker). This slow cooker beef stew recipe doesn't require you to brown the beef, which makes it perfect time saving dinner. Making a beef and dumpling casserole just got a lot easier thanks to the help of a slow cooker! Slow cookers allow you to throw everything into the bowl, walk away and return to a.

I love that, unlike my MIL's recipe for ground beef and barley soup, my recipe contains no cans of creamed soup. 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. Hearty and delicious beef and barley stew, perfect for a comforting dinner at the end of the day. You can have Beef and Barley Stew with Dumplings (Slow Cooker) using 21 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Beef and Barley Stew with Dumplings (Slow Cooker)

1. You need of Stew.
2. Prepare 2 large of onion (thickly chopped).
3. You need 450 grams of stewing beef (diced).
4. You need 4 tbsp of frozen peas.
5. You need 3 of carrot (thickly chopped).
6. You need 2 medium of maris piper potatoes (peeled and cut into chunks).
7. You need 40 grams of dried pearl barley.
8. It's 3 tbsp of beef or onion gravy granules.
9. You need 800 ml of cold water.
10. It's 2 of beef stock cubes.
11. You need 1 tsp of dried thyme.
12. Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
13. It's 1 pinch of pepper.
14. Prepare of Dumplings.
15. Prepare 50 grams of vegetable suet.
16. You need 100 grams of self-raising flour.
17. It's 4 tbsp of water (cold).
18. You need 1 tsp of dried thyme.
19. You need 1 tsp of dried sage.
20. Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
21. It's 1 pinch of pepper.

Make it in your Instant Pot or your slow cooker. Since I started this blog and started really learning how to cook I have won Mike over to the dark side of many foods. He hated Brussels Sprouts - until I make. If you've got a slow cooker, this is a winter warmer the whole family can enjoy. [Listen with sound to find out why the hubby is on the naughty step].

Beef and Barley Stew with Dumplings (Slow Cooker) instructions

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..

Slow Cooker Beef Stew - Everyone's favorite comforting beef stew made easily in the crockpot! Season beef with salt and pepper, to taste. Add beef to the skillet and cook until evenly browned Added homemade dumplings an hour before finishing. 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.