Root vegetable stew with British suet dumplings

[frayed_11]

It's not often I cook traditional British food (most of it is pretty boring), but I can never resist a good stew and suet dumplings.
You could easily make this vegan by substituting the Quorn mince for a vegan alternative - or just skipping it altogether.

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Comments

[malcolmina]

Also, I've never heard of vegetarian suet. Is it something that is used for pie crusts, and things like that? I might have to look into that.

[frayed_11]

Yeah, suet is usually made from animal fat, but you can get a vegetarian alternative. It's often used in pastry and dumplings.

[gymx]

Do you mean vegetable shortening aka Crisco?

[frayed_11]

lol I have no idea what Crisco is! Googling isn't really telling me anything about whether shortening and suet can be interchanged. Maybe try it and see?

[frayed_11]

I've found somewhere that says you can freeze butter and then grate it, and use that instead of suet - but that doesn't sound very nice! :S