Beef and Dumplings

December 4, 2024thetipsyhousewife
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A Classic Comfort Food Recipe

Bread dumplings in a blue slow cooker surrounding peas over beef.

Beef and Dumplings is a classic, retro recipe from the days of cooking low and slow. This recipe is made with round steak that takes time to cook and tenderize.

The meat bakes up in a savory gravy with seasoned onions and finished off with sweet peas and canned biscuits dropped in to bake off into tender and buttery dumplings. It’s the ultimate winter comfort food.

There’s a recipe card with all of the ingredients and instructions at the end of the post. The card has a “print” button that will bring the recipe up on one page without ads so you can screenshot or print it.

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Get Roasted

This recipe is best when made in my covered, speckled roaster.

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I think the heat distribution is best in this pan and it really cooks and tenderizes the meat properly. I have several sizes of my grandmother’s speckled roasters, but I linked one on Amazon that is a good one.

These covered roasters are also available at places like Walmart and Ace Hardware Stores. As I said, you can make this in any roaster but the covered roasters really do a great job.

An empty blue specked roaster on a counter next to cans of Campbell's Soup and Worcestershire Sauce.

Other Roaster Recipes

I also make my Stuffed Peppers in my roaster and my Mom’s Pork Roast Recipe. One of the other classic recipes I use my covered roaster for is my Classic Beef Stew recipe.

Raw pieces of cut steak in the blue speckled roaster next to a bowl of gravy.

Round Steak In The Recipe

The beef in this recipe is a cut of meat called round steak. I find slices of round steak at almost every single store I have ever been to.

I even see the round steak cuts at Aldi. They are a pretty affordable cut of meat.

The reason it stays affordable is that it can be tough if not cooked right. If cooked right, however, it is absolutely delicious and comforting.

My Round Steak and Gravy recipe has been one of my top five recipes for the entire eight years that I have had this recipe site.

Flour in a red measuring spoon held over a gravy mixture in a bowl.

Simple and Few Ingredients

You will see that this recipe has very few ingredients. The sauce you pour over the meat and onions is made from Campbell’s French Onion Soup and Creamy Garlic Cream of Mushroom Soup.

Adding some Worcestershire provides an extra layer of flavor and the1/4 cup of flour will help the gravy thicken.

The meat and onions cook for two hours to get nice and tender. In the last 20 to 25 minutes you will increase the heat, add your frozen peas and your cut up biscuits, and let this finish baking.

The biscuits will brown on top and be tender and buttery underneath.

These biscuit dumplings really soak up the delicious gravy. It’s the best part of the whole recipe.

Cut up biscuit dough on a white cutting board next to a specked roaster filled with meat, gravy, and green peas.
Cut up a can of refrigerated biscuit dough to make “dumplings”.
Frozen peas surrounded by raw biscuit dough pieces over beef and gravy in the speckled roaster.
The biscuit dumplings will steam and bake up in the gravy.
A close up of the finished dish with all of the components mixed together.
You can serve this dish as it is coming from the oven or you can give it a good stir for the gravy to coat the dumplings and mix in the peas.
Yield: 6 to 8 Servings

Beef and Dumplings

Bread dumplings in a blue slow cooker surrounding peas over beef.

A classic, retro recipe from the days of cooking low and slow. This recipe is made with round steak that takes time to cook and tenderize. Baking up in a savory gravy, with seasoned onions and finished off with sweet peas and canned biscuits dropped in to bake off into tender and buttery dumplings. The ultimate winter comfort food.

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 to 2 lbs of Boneless Eye of Round Steak, thin cut
  • 2 cans of Campbell's French Onion Soup
  • 1 can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup or Cream of Mushroom with Roasted Garlic
  • 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire Sauce
  • 2 medium sized yellow onions
  • 1 teaspoon of paprika
  • 1/2 tablespoon of garlic powder
  • 1/2 tablespoon of onion powder
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon of dried parsley
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • 1/4 cup of white flour
  • 1 to 2 cups of frozen peas
  • 1 can of refrigerated biscuit dough (8 biscuits)

Instructions

  1. Cut your round steak into bite sized pieces.
  2. Cut your onions into bite sized pieces.
  3. I highly recommend using a covered roaster for this recipe, I like to use my speckled roaster. Add your onions to the roaster and season with the salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder, paprika, and dried parsley.
  4. Add the round steak to the top of the onions.
  5. In a bowl, whisk together the 3 cans of soup, the Worcestershire sauce and the flour until smooth. Pour over the meat and onions.
  6. Cover and bake this at 350 degrees for 2 hours. No need to check on it or stir it. Let the meat cook and tenderize.
  7. Remove the biscuits from the can and cut into small, bite sized pieces. Cut them slightly small as they will "puff up" as they cook.
  8. Remove your pan of meat from the oven, turn the oven up to 400 degrees,
  9. Add the frozen peas to the center of the pan and put the biscuit dough all around the peas. Cover and bake for another 25 minutes.
  10. Remove from the oven. The top of the biscuit "dumplings" will be browned and the bottoms will be white but have cooked in the gravy.
  11. You can give this all a stir and serve or serve scooped with the biscuits on top.
  12. *if you want to make this in a slow cooker, follow the same steps except cook this in a slow cooker for 6 to 8 hours on low, then turn up to high, add the peas and biscuits and cover and cook for one more hour. **all slow cookers are different so keep an eye on time and temp the first time you make this, especially if it is a slow cooker with a metal insert.
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