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Traditional Vegetable Stew
Serves 4
Easy
Total time:
A winter warmer topped with a new take on vegetarian dumplings
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- 1 kilo potatoes
- 1 small - medium celeriac
- 1 small - medium turnip
- 2 large carrots
- 1 medium onion
- 1 large courgette
- 3 large bay leaves
- 500 ml tomato passata
- 500 ml water
- glug of olive oil
for the dumplings
- 100 gms vegetarian shredded suet
- 200 grms plain flour
- good pinch of salt
- 5 tablespoons of red wine
- 50 grams of cheese (any hard cheese if fine I use emmental)
Method
step 1
Peel all the vegetables and chop in large rough chunksstep 2
Put the olive oil and all chopped vegetables and the bay leaves into a large casserole pan keep the lid onstep 3
Allow the vegetables to sweat for 15 minutes, then add the passata and the waterstep 4
Bring to boil and them simmer for one hour with the lid onstep 5
Mix the flour and suet, salt and cheese add the wine - enought to make the dough pliable.step 6
The mix should be enough to make 8 dumplings drop onto the stew, cook on a moderate heat for a further 25 minutesstep 7
To finish take off the lid and put the casserole pan under a grill for a few minutes just to lightly toast the top of the dumplings
