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Beef Casserole With Sweetcorn Dumplings

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Beef Casserole With Sweetcorn Dumplings
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This beef casserole is a perfect winter warmer that'll easily serve six people – it only takes a quarter of an hour or so to prepare, and once in the oven your time's your own. Enlarge This beef casserole is a perfect winter warmer that'll easily serve six people – it only takes a quarter of an hour or so to prepare, and once in the oven your time's your own.
Serves:
6
Preparation Time:
15 minutes
Cooking Time:
1 hour 15 minutes
Total Time:
1 hour 30 minutes
Oven Temperature:
170° c  -  340° f

Step : You will need

  • 680 g braising cubes, (chuck and blade) or
  • 680 g stewing cubes, (shin and leg)
  • 2 tbsp sunflower oil
  • 8 small shallotts or button onions, peeled and left whole
  • 1 large garlic clove, peeled and finely chopped
  • 4 large carrots, peeled and thickly sliced
  • 2 tbsp plain flour
  • 600 ml good, hot beef stock
  • 300 ml good red wine
  • 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 2 large sprigs fresh thyme leaves
  • 2 medium bay leaves
  • 1 tbsp golden syrup
  • 220 g self-raising flour, sieved
  • 50 g cold butter, cubed
  • 1 tbsp freshly chopped chives
  • 150 g sweetcorn kernels
  • 120 ml cold water

Step 1: Seal the meat

Preheat the oven to Gas mark 3, 170°C, 325°F. Heat some oil in a large non-stick frying pan and cook the meat for 4-5 minutes, in batches until brown. It's important not to overfill the pan as the cubes will stew in their own juices and will not caramelise nicely which helps to give the stew the rich colour. Spoon into a large casserole dish.

Step 2: Prepare the casserole

Add shallots, garlic and carrots to the frying pan and cook for 2-3 minutes stirring occasionally. Stir in the flour and cook for 1-2 minutes. Transfer to the casserole dish. Add the stock, wine, vinegar and herbs to the casserole dish. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat, season and stir in the golden syrup. Cover and cook in the oven for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.

Step 3: Prepare the dumplings

While the casserole's cooking, prepare the dumplings: place the flour and salt in a large bowl and rub the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. The self-raising flour makes the dumplings nice and fluffy. Season. Add the remaining ingredients, mix together to form a smooth dough and shape into 8 even-sized balls. Don't make them too large as they'll swell.

Step 4: Cook the dumplings

20-25 minutes before the end of cooking time remove the casserole from the oven, add the dumplings, return to the oven and cook uncovered for the remaining cooking time.
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Tips & Comments
  1. tulip11

    hi looks reall good i want to try it but if i did not want to use the red wine what can i use instead

  3. pittingtonpaul

    what is gass mark 3 on an electric oven just starting out