Food Academy- Beef and Mushroom pie.

Once you start making your own pies, you will stop eating pies from a service station. Yours should be much nicer.

Steak and Mushroom pie.

Ingredients

·      Stewing beef (chuck), 1 ramekin, cut into 2cm dice

·      Oil for frying

·      Onion, ½ , finely diced

·      Garlic, 1 clove crushed

·      Button mushrooms, 4-6, quartered

·      Beef stock, ¼ cup

·      Red wine, ¼ cup

·      Parsley, 1 tsp, chopped

·      Thyme, ½ tsp

·      Tomato sauce, 1 tsp

·      Salt/pepper

·      Puff pastry, 2 sheets

·      Cornflour, 1 Tbsp

·      Milk to glaze

·      Tin foil pie dish

Method

1.    Heat up the oil in the fry pan (medium high) and brown the meat.

2.    Remove from the heat and drain.

3.    Fry the onion, garlic and mushrooms until soft.

4.    Return meat to pan.

5.    Add the stock, wine, tomato sauce, seasoning and herbs.

6.    Bring to boil and then simmer until the meat is tender (20-30 min).

7.    Mix the corn flour with a little cold water and add to meat. Bring to boil to thicken. Allow to cool.

8.    Line a pie dish with the pastry.

9.    Fill with the meat mixture.

10. Cover with a pastry lid and seal the edges. Make a slit/holes in the top.

11. Brush with milk/egg wash and bake at 200⁰C for about 30 minutes or until golden brown.

12. Remove from the oven and allow to cool before eating.