Recipe: Yummy Slow Cooker vegetable broth with mini bacon dumplings

Slow Cooker vegetable broth with mini bacon dumplings.

You can have Slow Cooker vegetable broth with mini bacon dumplings using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Slow Cooker vegetable broth with mini bacon dumplings

1. Prepare 40 g of butter.
2. It's 1 of leek (sliced, white and green parts kept separated).
3. You need 150 g of swede (diced).
4. Prepare 150 g of parsnip (diced).
5. It's 150 g of carrot (diced).
6. You need 1 of celery stick (sliced).
7. It's 50 g of pearl barley.
8. It's 1 litre of boiling veg stock.
9. Prepare 2-3 of stems of sage.
10. You need 1 tsp of english mustard.
11. Prepare of salt and pepper.
12. Prepare of Dumpings.
13. It's 75 g of self raising flour.
14. Prepare 40 g of shredded veg suet.
15. Prepare 2 rashers of streaky bacon finely diced.
16. Prepare 3 tbs of water.

Slow Cooker vegetable broth with mini bacon dumplings step by step

1. Heat butter in frying pan, add white sliced leek and fry for 2-3 mins. Stir in the veg and celery and fry for 5 mins..
2. Add pearl barley to the slow cooker, add fried veg, boiling stock and sage. Stir in mustard and a little salt and pepper. Cover with the lid and cook on low for 8-10 hours..
3. Make the dumpings- put flour, suet and bacon in a bowl with a little salt and pepper. Mix together then gradually mix in enough water to make soft not sticky dough. Knead lightly on a lightly floured surface and then cut into 12 pieces. Roll into balls..
4. Stir in remaining green pieces of leek into the soup, add the dumpings spaced slightly apart and replace the lid and cook on low for an hour. Serve..