Beef Stew with Dumplings
This is one of the Childrens favourites, I watch for the meat to be on special and freeze it till needed.
I sometimes buy a piece of Topside roast and cut it up as it is often cheaper than the sliced stuff.

1.5kg Gravy Beef or blade or topside cut to 25mm pieces
1 large Onion diced
2 carrots peeled and chopped
1 parsnip peeled and chopped
1 can chopped tomatoes
1 dsp Beef stock powder
2/3 cup Gravy powder

Dumplings
6 heaped Tbsp SR flour
1 tbsp cooking Marg
Salt & Pepper
Milk



Put meat. vegetables, canned tomatoes and beef stock in crockpot (mine has a removable bowl), I do this at night and then put it in the crockpot in the morning. Let it cook on low all day. Blend gravy powder with enough water to make a paste and add to meat to thicken(it thickens as it heats).
To make dumplings:
Sift flour then chop butter in chunks and rub it in to the flour and some salt and pepper. Then use enough milk to make a sticky dough. Place chunks on top of stew (which has been thickened) and put the removable bowl in microwave for 4 mins with the lid on.
Then put it back in the crockpot base until needed.
Leftovers Freeze ok, or you can freeze meat and veg and make fresh dumpling when required or If only meat is left I make single serve pies.