Cidered pork with sage dumplings

750g pork shoulder cubed
1 leek, keeping white and green parts seperate
2 tablespoons plain flour
300ml dry cider
300ml chicken stock
200g carrots, diced
1 desert apple cored and diced
2-3 stems sage
salt and pepper

dumplings
150g self-raising flour
75g suet
1 tablespoon chopped sage
2 table spoons parsley
5-7 tablespoons water


turn slow cooker on
heat frying pan, place pork in pan and fry till lightly brown, lift out with slotted spoon and place in slow cooker.

chop leek, putting only white bits in frying pan, fry till softened. add flour mix cider and stock and pour in pan.

chuck everything else and stock/cider in slow cokker

cook on low for 8-10 hours

1 hour befefore due too eat, make dumplings and stir in green part of leek, put dumplings in and finish cooking for 1 hour


very yummy mmmmmm