Gordon Ramsay's 'hearty' beef stew recipe is perfect for cosy nights in

Gordon Ramsay's beef and ale stew with mustard dumplings is the cleanable wintertime warmer. It's a elemental look to travel and volition support the household afloat and happy

As the chilly wintertime evenings gully in, there's thing rather similar a hearty British staple to lukewarm your heart.

Gordon Ramsay's beef and ale stew with mustard dumplings is conscionable the ticket. It's a straightforward look that's perfect for snuggling up astatine home. Chances are you've got astir of the ingredients already, which is simply a bonus for keeping the outgo down.

The personage chef's stew has received rave reviews, with foodies crossed the world praising its heavy flavours and enticing scents. "I made this stew contiguous it is the champion stew I've ever tasted convey you Gordon for the recipe," commented a instrumentality connected YouTube.

Another said: "When I opened the oven, I couldn't judge the aroma I smelled was truthful nice. Even though I didn't person bay leafage nor beef broth, and conscionable added regular brew not ale, it came retired truthful delicious and psyche alluring.

"Thank you Gordon for sharing your cooking skills. Love and acknowledgment from Taiwan!" Here's the lowdown connected however to whip up this scrumptious wintertime warmer.

Ingredients

For the stew:

• Beef strips chopped into chunks (700g)
• Ale oregon brew (500ml)
• Beef banal (300ml)
• Pearl onions (150g) oregon 2 mean onions - peeled and chopped into chunks
• Two carrots - peeled and chopped into chunks
• Four peeled gloves of garlic
• 3tsp of herb puree
• 2tbsp of plain flour
• Four thyme sprigs
• Three bay leaves
• Salt and capsicum to season

For the dumplings:

• Flour for dusting
• 1tbsp of wholegrain mustard
• Suet (75g)
• Self raising oregon plain flour (125g)

Method

• Preheat the oven to 150C. Season the beef successful a vessel with brackish and pepper. Then, particulate the nutrient with a spoonful of flour and premix it together.
• Prepare your veggies and marque definite everything is each astir the aforesaid same arsenic your beef chunks. In a casserole dish, and lipid and spot connected a mean heat. Once hot, adhd the beef and navigator until the beef is brownish connected each sides.
• Add the carrots, onions, thyme, bay leaves, and ail to the crockery and stir. This volition request to navigator connected a mean vigor for astir two-three minutes.
• To deglaze the pan, determination successful your brew oregon ale - and fto the liquid boil for two-three minutes. Then, adhd the herb puree and premix it in. Now, screen the stew with beef banal and bring it to a simmer.
• Give it an other premix and spot the lid on, allowing immoderate abstraction for the steam to escape. This is to forestall the stew going excessively watery. Place the food successful the oven and navigator for 2 and a fractional hours, until the beef becomes precise tender.
• For the dumplings, adhd the flour and suet into a mixing vessel and play good with brackish and pepper. Add successful the mustard and premix unneurotic utilizing your hands.
• Then, adhd a small lukewarm h2o to the substance and proceed to premix until it becomes a dough. If your substance gets a small excessively watery - conscionable adhd successful a small much flour.
• With flour-covered hands, divided the dough into 12 dumplings balls. Once the stew is ready, region it from the oven and summation the somesthesia to 180C.
• Place the dumplings successful the stew and enactment the crockery backmost successful the oven for a last 20-25 minutes. You'll cognize erstwhile the dumplings are acceptable due to the fact that they should person grown successful size.

And determination you person it! A timeless wintertime classical that's definite to delight the full family. PS If you're aft light, fluffy dumplings, spell for self-raising flour. But if you similar them with a spot much heft, truthful for plain flour.