In addition to this variation, my menu rotation includes my Irish Beef and Guinness Stew and Creamy Chicken Stew with the tastiest dumplings that can all be turned into slow cooker recipes.

For the coldest wintry evenings, tuck into a rich beef stew with fluffy dumplings to warm you right down to your toes. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. For the beef stew, heat the oil and ...

Gordon Ramsay's beef and ale stew with mustard dumplings is just the ticket – an easy-peasy recipe that's perfect for snuggling up indoors. Chances are you've got most of the ingredients already ...

Phil Vickery's slowing it down in the kitchen with a recipe for a special beef stew for ... remove the stew from the oven. After 1½ hours make the dumplings, by placing the flour, salt, suet ...

Dot the dumplings on top of the beef. Cook, covered, for 20 minutes, then uncover and cook for another 10 minutes. Recipe from Plenty by Diana Henry/Mitchell Beazley, 2010.