Winter Vegetable Stew and Dumplings

The VSTs had guests last night, a fairly rare occurrence! Veggie stew and dumplings was on the agenda anyway, having bought one of my super winter stew packs (3 onions, 6 carrots, a parsnip, a swede for £1.50) so I just suped it up with a couple of sweet potatoes and an additional couple of parsnips so that it would feed four and then two for lunch tomorrow which it did! I made one and a half times the dumplings too, I didn't think that any more would have room to grow in the pan and as you can see they were quite successful. Lovely evening.

Root vegetable stew and dumplings

Bought another bargain stew bag yesterday and made us a root vegetable stew which has carrots, swede and parsnip in it. On the calorie counting front this came out at less than 100calories a portion for the stew and the dumplings are 85 each so a very filling, tasty and low calorie meal.

Veggie stew and dumplings

I've finally managed to get my dumpling making right. It was completely accidental of course. When I made this last time I put it in the oven to keep warm while we went for a walk and when I came back there were light fluffy dumplings in the pan not the usual stodgy ones I manage to create. I did the same thing this time, letting the dumplings cook on the hob for about ten minutes and then another 15 in the oven and heavenly dumplings were created. They were even better this time as the suet was not out of date!

Veggie casserole and dumplings

Now this really is a winter favourite but despite the month the weather continues to be very mild. It still made a good meal though. This version had onion, celery, sweet potato, parsnip, carrot, peppers, broccoli, courgette and mushrooms in.

I normally struggle to make my dumplings light and fluffy but miraculously they were this time!