Steak, Guinness and Cheddar puff pastry pie

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Steak, Guinness and Cheddar puff pastry pie
Steak, Guinness and Cheddar puff pastry pie
Servings:Serves 4
Calories per serving:1703
Ready in:3 hours 10 minutes
Prep. time:25 minutes
Cook time:2 hours 45 minutes
Difficulty:Average difficulty
Recipe author:Chef
First published:14th December 2013

This is going to be our New Years Eve dinner - hopefully. Fine food for this cold miserable weather we are having.


Ingredients

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Mise en place

  • Preheat the oven to 190° C (375° F - gas 5)

Method

The filling

  1. The filling can be made in advance. Why not make double the amount and freeze half for another pie at a later date?
  2. Add the flour to a bowl and season with salt and lots of black pepper and mustard powder.
  3. Roll the meat in the flour to coat well
  4. You can do the frying stage in an oven proof pan, a Le Creuset type dish or a wok.
  5. Add a glug of olive oil to the wok and sauté the onions and garlic over a low heat until translucent, about 7 minutes, remove and reserve
  6. Turn up the heat and add a little more olive oil if necessary, brown the beef cubes for 3 or 4 minutes then add the onions back and tip in the butter, carrots, celery, parsley, rosemary and mushrooms and fry off for a few more minutes
  7. Deglaze the pan with a splash of brandy if you have some laying around.
  8. Tip everything into an oven proof dish if you are using your wok and pour in the Guinness and enough water so the contents are just covered, stir, cover and cook in the oven for about 2.5 hours. Give it a stir halfway through.
  9. If after this cooking it's still very runny, reduce it further by heating on the hob.
  10. Mix in half of the cheese, taste and adjust the seasoning if required.

Baking the pie

  1. Grease a pie dish with olive oil and tip in the filling
  2. Sprinkle over the with the remaining Cheddar cheese
  3. With a sharp knife, have some fun scoring a pattern in the top, and then brush with the beaten egg
  4. Lay the crust over the dish, allowing plenty of it to hang over the side as it will shrink. Notice the difference in the photos
  5. If the filling is hot then the pie will only need baking to rise the crust, whereas if it is cold, it will need longer to heat the filling
  6. I would bake for 20 to 30 minutes to rise the crust alone, but check it's progress regularly
  7. If you need to heat the contents as well bake for 30 to 40 minutes, but I would cover the pastry with tin-foil once it is golden-brown or it will burn.

Serving suggestions

Serve hot with garden peas, boiled potatoes and a pint of Guinness!

Variations

Make smaller, individual pies.

To make a conventional steak and ale pie, substitute bitter for the Guinness.

Chef's tip

I have just lidded the pie with puff pastry but you can line the pie with puff pastry as well, however, I find it just goes soggy. You will probably need a 500g block if you are doing this. 2/3rds for the lining and 1/3 for the lid

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