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Beef Stew & Dumplings

Over a year ago 3,198 views
Cook: 540 mins

Accompaniment

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Baron de Ley Club Privado Reserva Rioja

The Baron de Ley winery was founded by a prestigious group of Rioja professionals in 1985. They were quite unique in their approach as they modelled the winery on a Medoc chateaux, which was a pioneering move at that time for producers in the Denominacion de Origen Calificada Rioja. This wine is aged in new oak casks for 20 months prior to resting in the bottle for 2 years before release. It has definite claret qualities; the nose is layered with ripe cherry, toasty oak and a touch of cigar box. Lively, ripe, red fruit with dried tobacco and nutty vanilla overtones, round tannins with an expressive woody finish. Rioja wine can be excellent value for money and has terrific cellaring potential. Buy this wine if you like: Well rounded reds, with soft fruit and toasty character, easy drinking for upfront pleasure.

Description

Lovely to come home to the smell of a good stew cooking!

Method

  1. 1

    First, put potatoes and carrots in pan of water, bring to boil and simmer for 10 minutes (otherwise even after 9 hours in slow cooker they're still a bit hard!)

    Then, put all Stew ingredients into a big slow cooker,(no need to brown meat first) cover will the Stock, add all seasoning ingredients.

    Cook first hour on HIGH, then MEDIUM for 7 to 8 hours.

    DUMPLINGS : Sieve flour and salt into bowl, add enough cold water to bind together, if sticky when rolling into balls, roll in bit of extra flour.

    Put dumplings in for last hour of cooking.

Chef's Tips

Can be frozen, defrost before reheating

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