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Heston Blumenthal's traditional minced beef and dumplings recipe
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Heston Blumenthal's traditional minced beef and dumplings recipe

17 ingredients 35 min + 3 hr 5 min 4 people openrecipes

Big flavoured and deeply comforting — the perfect dish for autumn. This recipe is full of little techniques that help intensify the flavours, and it can be prepared up to step 3 a day ahead.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

518
Calories
33g
Protein
29g
Fat
26g
Carbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Beef 100g cooked 250
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Carrot 1 medium (61g) 25
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Mushroom 1/2 cup sliced (35g) 15
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp (15ml) 9
Thyme 1 tsp dried (1.4g) 4
Mustard 1 tsp (5g) yellow 3
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Chive 1 tbsp (3g) 1
Star Anise not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 groundnut oil
  • tbsp British Beef Shin & Bone Marrow
  • 450 x 200g pack lean beef mince
  • g pack lean beef mince
  • 2 red wine
  • 400 x 200g Finishing Jus for Beef
  • g organic Bouquet Garni
  • 300 star anise
  • ml onions, thinly sliced
  • 2 carrots, thinly sliced
  • 1 button mushrooms, quartered
  • 2 tomato purée
  • 2 passata
  • 2 Dijon mustard
  • 200 Worcestershire sauce
  • g Mushroom Ketchup
  • 70 thyme sprigs, curly parsley and chives, to finish

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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