Hearty vegetable stew with dumplings - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 25g butter, plus a little extra
• 300g chestnut mushrooms, halved
• 1 leek, roughly chopped
• 2 large carrots, thickly sliced at an angle
• 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• 1 tbsp plain flour
• 300ml vegetable stock
• 400g can cream of mushroom soup
• large handful of parsley, chopped
• mash, to serve
• 150g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
• 70g vegetable suet