Beef Stew... A Recipe Please, Please, Please?!


Question: Beef Stew!.!.!. A Recipe Please, Please, Please!?
I really want to make my hubby a stew with dumplings this Saturday!?

I don’t know where to start if I’m honest!

All the recipes I’ve looked at on the net say add the stock!? What is stock!?

I probably sound really silly asking but I have no idea!!

Can I have a simple but tasty recipe outlining exactly what I will need!?

Thank you very much!!
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Answers:
Ok I make mine with left over beef from sunday roast but will adapt for uncooked diced beef!.

This is actually a casserole but there isn't much difference and it tastes much better (according to my hubby)

450g Diced Beef
1/2 Onion
1tbsp Plain Flour
3 Large Carrots
2 x handfuls of peas
4 Large Potatoes peeled and cut into large pieces
570ml Beef Stock (beef oxo cube mixed with boiling water)
1tbsp Tomato Puree
Dried Herbs

Chop onion into small bits and fry off in a little oil in a large frying pan!. Add meat and fry until outside is brown!. Add 1 heaped tablespoon of plain flour and mix!.

Add 300ml of Beef stock and stir!.

Add carrots and peas and stir in then add tomato puree and a large pinch of dried herbs and stir!.

Put everything into a casserole pot and add rest of stock, put in oven on 180 degrees uncovered for 15 mins then turn down to 160 degrees cover and cook for 30 mins!.

While stew is cooking make dumplings:

4oz Self raising flour
2 oz Atora Suet
6 tablespoons cold water

Mix flour, suet and water together into a pliable dough (shouldn't be sticky) then split into 8 small balls!.

Add dumplings and potatoes to stew and stir, then cook for at least another 30 mins!.

Serve in large yorkshire pudding!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

They usually want you to use beef stock, but you can use broth or bullion instead or follow my recipe!. I have never used stock, broth or bullion in my stew though!.

Basic Stew:
1 pound stew meat
1 or 2 carrots peeled and cut into big chunks
1 or 2 ribs of celery cut into big chunks
1 onion chopped
1 large white potato or 2 medium potatoes peeled and chopped
1 clove garlic chopped
1 can stewed tomatoes
Oil
Flour
Seasonings such as seasoned salt, granulated garlic, pepper, celery salt, onion powder and a few bay leaves

In a large skillet heat the oil!.
In a zipper seal bag add flour and all the seasoning to taste-except bay leaves!. You want to season it kinda heavily because it will basically season your whole stew!.
Toss the meat into the bag of flour and coat well!. Add the meat to the oil, adding a little extra flour!.
Meanwhile add all veggies and bay leaf to a soup or crock pot!. Add the meat when it is done frying, add all the flour drippings as well!.
Simmer on low heat until the meat and veggies are tender!. Adding more water or seasonings as needed!. Stir from time to time as well!.
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BEEF STEW & DUMPLINGS

2 lbs!. cubed beef
4 c!. water
1/2 c!. flour
1 sm!. onion, chopped
5 carrots, peeled & sliced
3 potatoes, cubed
Salt, pepper & garlic powder to taste

DUMPLINGS:

2 c!. Jiffy or Bisquick
2/3 c!. milk

Brown beef in large pan!. Add 3 cups water, spices, onion, carrots and potatoes!. Simmer for 1 1/2 hours!.
Blend flour with remaining water!. Add and simmer until thickened and bubbly!. Mix dumplings and spoon dough onto boiling stew!. Reduce heat, cover tightly and simmer for 20 minutes!. For busy cook; do step one the night before!. Serves 6!.

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if you get good quality beef from the butcher you shouldnt need too much stock!.
Stock can come in different forms, oxo cubes, knorr stock cubes, etc just dissolve them in boiling water as much as it says on the packet!.
I like Kallo organic stock cubes best!.

If you want to put dumplings in the stew dont put potatos in the stew as well !.

A good simple stew, onions,garlic, carrots, beef, and stock

Start by browning your beef, get your pan a casserole pan that can be used on the flame as well is brilliant!. heat it up then put some oil in,brown the beef to seal in the flavour and this gives colour to the stew too!. Take it out put it on a plate, then in the same oil fry onions and garlic, put the beef back in, add the carrots, then the dissolved stock, and put in the oven to cook, on a low heat, for a couple of hours!. The dumplings can be made near the end as they dont need long to cook, just get packet mix, mix with water and roll into little balls and drop them in the stew till cooked!. That's it!. Serve with some veg, maybe mashed potato if your hungry, mashed carrot and swede is good and steamed cabbage with butter!.

Think i might make this for me and my fiancee at the weekend too now!. :0)


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I dont know myself as hubby isnt here and hes the chef in this house lol But I found this question that was already asked, maybe you could get some help from its answers!?

http://uk!.answers!.yahoo!.com/question/ind!.!.!.


ETA: Stock is like a flavouring liquid, usually from the juices youve cooked your meat in and such!. You can buy stock in supermarkets in the chilled sections, usually in the raw meat areas, Its kind of like a watery gravy just adds more meaty flavour!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

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Helloooooooo Theo's mom!. Sit down girl and pay attention!.

Your not stupid or silly, but when I am finished with you, your going to be a clever dick!. Stock is found in the soup section of your grocery store!.

when you make a chicken broth or beef broth so to speak, that can also be called a stock!.

You will need a piece of tough meat usually from the shoulder of the beef!.Like a pot roast, and it's not an expensive cut of meat!. Cut into good size cubes, no less than two inches!. If there are bone, don't throw it out, throw it in the pot also!. People hate this cut, but it's full of flavor or gives your stew flavor!.
1X diced onion
3X cloves of garlic finally chopped or crushed
1 x stick of chopped celery
2 x Carrots peeled and coarsely chopped!.
1x large potato shredded
large container of Campbells beef stock
375ml bottle of a dark beer, not that Guinness stuff

Method!.
In a large pot brown meat very well in about 2 to 3 table spoons of EVOO, you may have to do this in batches so not to over crowd the pot, You need them browned all over!. Once meat is all browned including the bones with some of that meat left on put it aside!.
Throw in your onions and celery start them sweating, then your bay leafes
carrots
garlic
you should be on a medium to high heat now, don't burn the garlic!. while the vegetables are doing there bit, start pouring in the beer slowly, this will start to deglaze the bottom of the pot and lift all those goodies on the bottom, help it along with your wooden spoon!. Now the bottle is empty add your meat back in toss it around in there!. Now cover the meat with the beef stock, bring to the boil and add your shredded potato, this is going to be your thickenner!. Stir it in well now cover and turn heat down to medium for twenty minutes, stir periodically, check you liquid, if it drops too much add some more beef stock!.

Now lower temp and simmer, I am not going to tell you how long because that can vary, but when the meat is tender that it almost melts in your mouth its ready, your gravy should have thickenned, if too thick for your liking, add some more stock and stir!.

How does it taste!? does it need any seasonning (Salt and pepper)!? If it does add some to your taste, rememberring the stock has seasonning!.

You mentioned dumplings, for get it Theo's mom, a nice warm crusty Italian or French bagette, he will love to duck in the gravy!.

Serve with a salad, don't over crowd the flavors simple is best!. Do some mashed potatoe if you feel like it, use your imagination!.

Looks hard right, it's not all done in one pot!. While it's cooking you could bake a nice cake or make a tiramisu with plenty of rum in it for desert with a nice espresso!.
enjoy!.

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