Check out the size of these dumplings!

Feek

Feek

Feek

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Freshly made by my own fair hand earlier today as part of a mouthwatering beef stew. Recipe by Dymetrie.

It's been a long time (over 20 years) since I did any real cooking so it was a bit of a culture shock really.

But it was good!
 
I thought about doing stew earlier, but decided I didn't have time or everything to make it perfect :p Can't beat moist dumplings!
 
A faggot is a meatball type thing, a dumpling isn't.

Dumplings are great :)
 
Thats a mighty fine set of dumplings you have there sir, I would even go as far as saying, I wish I had dumplings like that !! :D
 
My house mates always take the **** out of the dumplings i make. They just end up being all different sizes and no determined shape.

No swearing

Gilly
 
$loth said:
Nice feek :)

What was the recipe?
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I'm sure Dym won't mind me sharing..

Get some stewing steak, a few onions, some garlic, a shedload of mushrooms and a couple of carrots...

Chop up the onions and garlic (either press the garlic or slice finely).

Cut the steak into 1" cubes.

Dump a 1.5" slice of lard into a saucepan and melt it... Then chuck in the steak and onions/garlic...

Fry until the steak is browned and the onions/garlic are translucent.

Sprinkle a tablespoon of flour over everything and stir a bit while you boil a pint of water.

Pour the water over the concoction and then crumble in a beefy oxo cube. Bring to the boil and add some black pepper (as much as you need) and half a glass of red wine.

Simmer for 45 minutes to an hour...

At this point then slice the carrots and throw them in. Cover and simmer for a further 45 minutes.

Add the mushrooms (washed and stems chopped off. I advise baby mushrooms as then you can leave them whole, which rocks!).

Make some dumplings (2flour to 1suet with a pinch of salt, add water until you have a good mixture), drop them in in lumps and continue to simmer (covered) for a further 30 minutes or until you're happy with how the dumplings look.
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I used Cookeen instead of lard and I threw in a chopped up potato after about half an hour of simmering. Didn't go with the mushrooms as my kids are notoriously fussy and it could have put them off. As it happens, the tattie and the carrots were so impregnated with beef flavour that I'm sure the mushrooms would have been the same.

Here it is halfway through the cooking process.
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Here are the dumplings ready to go in.
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And here's the dumplings just gone in, you can see they grew a fair bit.
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