Beef And Vegetables In Red Wine Sauce

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 2 lbs stewing beef
• 2 sliced carrots
• 2 stalks sliced celery
• 3 1/2 ounces sliced mushrooms
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 (14 ounce) can drained tomatoes
• 1/4 pint water
• 3 beef bouillon cubes
• 1/2 pint red wine
• 1 teaspoon dried herbs
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• beef gravy granules
• 6 ounces self raising flour
• 3 ounces suet
• 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
• salt and pepper

Recipe

• 1 in a large non stick pan, brown the steak in batches and place in crock pot or casserole dish. then add the carrots, celery, mushrooms and onion.
• 2 combine the tomatoes, water, stock cubes, wine, herbs, salt and pepper.
• 3 pour into the crock pot and cook on low for 8 hours or high for 5 hours approximately if you are not using a crock pot, cover the casserole and place in a moderate oven for 1 1/2-2 hours or until beef is tender.
• 4 dumplings;.
• 5 sieve the flour into a bowl; add suet, parsley, salt and pepper. add about 3 tbsp water to make a soft but not sticky dough. with floured hands roll dough into 8 balls.
• 6 add the dumplings 30-40 minutes before the end of cooking time and cook on a high setting.
• 7 on completion of cooking, thicken the sauce with gravy granules if desired (or needed) for a rich beefy flavour.