Soup Recipes:Beef Soup with Dumplings

Soup Recipes: Beef Soup with Dumplings


Preparation time:15 minutes

Cooking time:1 hour 20minutes

Serves: 6

Calories:340 per portion

Soup Recipes: Beef Soup with Dumplings

You will need

450g/1 lb braising steak, cubed

 25 g/1 oz plain flour

50g/2oz butter or margarine

2 onions, finely chopped

2 cloves garlic,crushed 

1 teaspoon marjoram

1 teaspoon paprika
salt and pepper
1.15 litres/ 2 pints beef stock


For the dumplings
2 day-old bread rolls
6 tablespoons lukewarm milk
1 onion, finely chopped
1tablespoon oil
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
salt and pepper
1 egg


Coat the beefin flour. Melt the fat in a large saucepan, add the onion and garlic and fry for 3 minutes. 

Add the meat and fry until browned on all sides. Add the marjoram and
seasoning.

 Gradually blend in the stock, bring to the boil,reduce the heat and simmer for 1 hour.


Cut the rolls into
thin slices and soften with the warmed milk. Cook the
onion in the oil. 

Mix together the bread, onion, parsley
seasoning and egg. With wet hands ,form the mixture into
six small balls.

Add the dumplings to the soup and simmer for a further
15 minutes. Serve each portion of soup with a dumpling.
More:Winter Warmer

Freezer Tip

Before adding the
dumplings, cool soup
quickly and freeze.


 Make and freaze the dumplings separately.


 To reheat, bring
the soup to the boil, add the
defrosted dumplings, and
cook as above.

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