Beef and Blue Cheese Pie

angelkissingdevil

Does anyone have a beef and blue cheese casserole/pie recipe that I can pinch? I've seen M&S advert on TV but not brave enough to just throw caution to the wind and have a go myself.

So if there are any recipes out there all would be kindly received x

thanks in advance

Sarah

Pink.

Hi angel,

That sounds lovely! It's not a combination I've made before so I don't have a recipe but I had a look on google and there are lots of links to beef and blue cheese recipes that might help.

Pink

angelkissingdevil

Hi Pink

Unfortunately all of those are for either Roasts (crusty baked) or salads x I did a search on google first just in case there was anything on there.

I even tried beef and cheese but that search only bought up ground beef (mince with cheddar sprinkled on top or cottage pies so neither helped.

Sarah x

Pink-winged wrote: »

Hi angel,

That sounds lovely! It's not a combination I've made before so I don't have a recipe but I had a look on google and there are lots of links to beef and blue cheese recipes that might help.

Pink

Pink.

Well, I think what you're planning sounds delicous and I fancy trying it myself. I haven't seen the advert but I think if I were to try it I'd brown the beef and some onions or shallots, and crushed garlic, maybe some mushrooms too. Once browned I'd add black pepper and beef stock or a stock cube or two and cook slowly on the hob, in the oven or the slow cooker until the meat was tender. Towards the end of cooking add in some crumbled blue cheese and taste. If it needs something more a glug of white wine might help? Actually I think I might give this a go as I have some beef in the freezer that needs using up and lots of stilton left over from Christmas. Thanks for the idea.

Pink

angelkissingdevil

You're an absolute super star x I'll have a go with that, I'll probably do it in my pressure cooker and then place in pie dishes and add puff pastry on top x thanks once again.

I may even put in port instead of wine.....

rhiwfield

I've got half a round of stilton leftover from christmas and I dont want to waste it. So I was looking at the stilton website and its got quite a few ideas
http://www.stiltoncheese.com/simple.cfm?cat_id=7

Not quite what you were after but I'll be trying one or two of them

angelkissingdevil

Might have a look for another day x

parsonswife8

A nice piece of sirloin steak is great with melted stilton on it.

I've also recently had some button mushrooms in a stilton sauce, which had stilton prinkled over the top of the dish and browned a bit in the oven or under the grill.

hex2

I dont have a recipe as such but I do make a 'cheats' pub style beef and stilton pie.

Brasing steak, chopped into cubes with as much of the yucky stuff off as you can manage. Brown a chopped onion, then brown the beef, add an oxo cube and enough water to cover the beef. In oven or on hob in covered pan for a couple of hours till the meat is tender. Make your pastry (or in my case get the just-rol puff packet out of the fridge). Thicken your braised beef. Put it in your pie dish, scatter some chopped up blue cheese on top, add your pie crust lid and bake for half an hour until the top is golden and crispy. I do a puff pastry lid rather than a true pie as my DH isn't a big pastry fan, but I have also done it with shortcrust full pie which worked well as long as you pre cook the base.

You end up with a layered effect - melty beef in gravy, then melted blue cheese, then the pastry - rather than a beef gravy that tastes faintly of blue cheese. Not seen the M&S advert so not sure which version you are looking for.

Hope this helps.

Off to the freezer to get some braising steak out now......

purpleivy

I should think that this would go in a pie



Meat Loaf with Blue Cheese


Serves 6 approx.

1 onion finely chopped
1 clove garlic, chopped or crushed
6 rashers streaky bacon, chopped
1 tsp. paprika
450g minced beef
150g fresh white breadcrumbs
2 tbsp. red pesto or 2 tbs. tomato puree
1 egg beaten
175g blue cheese
125g button mushrooms, sliced

Oven °C/°F/Gas

In a large bowl combine the onion, garlic, bacon, paprika, beef, breadcrumbs and pesto sauce /tomato puree. Mix together well and add the egg to bind. Pat half of the mixture into a 1 lb. loaf tin. Slice the blue cheese and lay on top of the beef mixture, followed by the mushrooms. Pat the rest of the beef mixture on top of the mushrooms. Cover with foil. Fill a baking tray with ¼ ” water. Stand the loaf on the tray and bake in the oven for 40 minutes. Remove the foil and return to the oven for a further 10 minutes. Leave to stand for 10 minutes before removing from tin. Serve hot or cold.

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I have also cooked a pork chop, and about 5 minutes from the end spread some camenbert on the top to melt over it, its quite a popular local dish where my brother lives in France