Dumplings without suet for vegetarian & left over stew for us

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DH made very tasty beef stew last night and suggested it would be good for tonight again if I bulked it up. Was going to serve with Alexander potatoes and green veg.
Also have vegetarian daughter arriving later.
I thought we could all have dumplings.
Talk me through how I do this - should it be a veg stew with all the dumplings and transfer some across to me and DH at serving? Otherwise I don't know how to make the original stew more liquid without spoiling it.

It's not vegetarian if its a beef stew is it?

What are Alexander potatoes?

It's leftover beef stew for DH and I.

I will need to make a separate veg stew for my daughter.
I'm trying to work out how to do the dumplings
Alexander potatoes are Lidl's posh new potatoes very buttery and yummy.

You get vegetarian suet. Dont understand what you mean by the rest of it? Or are you making a veggie stew as well?

Make the dumplings with marg or butter rubbed in to the flour in the place of suet. Add herbs and seasoning to taste. Cook on top of the veg stew. Et voila!

Yes I’d do what you suggest and make all the dumplings in the veg stew. If you need to add liquid to the beef stew, red wine seems like the obvious way.

should it be a veg stew with all the dumplings and transfer some across to me and DH at serving

Yes, you can do this, but you probably won't be able to cook dumplings for three people on top of a stew for 1/2 people so would need to make a large stew and then will still have leftovers - there's a joke in here somewhere about neverending leftovers and not being able to identify what the original meal was.

For the dumplings I'd use vegetable suet, or I've seen a Delia recipe that uses grated frozen butter, which I can't find with a quick google but I'm sure is just the frozen grated butter instead of suet then made up the same way. But veg suet is probably far easier.

Great, thanks, sorry I wasn't too clear at the beginning.
Quenelles that's what I'll do for the dumplings as haven't time to do a trip to Sainos
I see the challenge is going to be the dumplings on top of the small veg stew. Fairy, yes, to the wine that was an obvious one to miss.
Maybe DH and I will have two stews on our plates and fewer dumplings to navigate Barbara's challenge

Jamie Oliver does a dumpling with no suet - google it. I did them once, they were tasty.

Most suet these days is actually vegetarian. Surprised me too! Cook the dumplings in both the stews.

I thought there was basically two choices of suet in the supermarket, beef in the blue box and veg in the green box, and the blue one most popular?

I use the Jamie Oliver recipe mentioned above with grated butter. Works a treat!

I use atora vegetable suet and self raising flour (and water obviously) - the recipe is on the pack but pretty sure it’s 100g flour, 50g suet and 75ml water.

Atora do veg suet, it's made with vegetable fat and no animal products. Just use that for everyone.

Dumplings are mainly herby anyway.

Daughter could take home the leftovers!

I'll have to Google a recipe as I wanted to make some for my mum for the freezer for when she cooks a stew

Jamie Oliver recipe it was. A bit sticky but will definitely do it properly as main meal soon. Will make them a bit bigger as well. Cheers everyone

For easy dumplings, I use gnocchi, if there is enough liquid in your stew they soften and go very like traditional dumplings.