Mince and Dumplings

British

Mince and Dumplings

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Mince and Dumplings is British home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

50 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves
4

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Heat the oil in a large pot and brown the mince, breaking it up, about 8 minutes.

  2. Add the diced onion and carrot and cook until starting to soften, about 5 minutes.

  3. Stir in the stock, tomato paste, and Worcestershire sauce, bring to a simmer, cover, and cook 20 minutes.

  4. Meanwhile rub the butter into the self-raising flour with a pinch of salt, then stir in the milk to form a soft dough and shape into eight small balls.

  5. Drop the dumplings on top of the simmering mince, cover, and cook until the dumplings are puffed and cooked through, about 20 minutes.

  6. Season with salt and pepper and serve hot.

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Serve it with

A British dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Mince and Dumplings, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Mince and Dumplings carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Mince and Dumplings
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy Yes Chicken Salad with New Potatoes
Gluten Yes Bubble and Squeak
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
570 kcal
Protein
35 g
Carbs
30 g
Fat
34 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
4 g
Sodium
600 mg
Saturated fat
15 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Mince and Dumplings takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.

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