steak pie?

shammyjack

Shin beef or skirting with some oxtail added, cook slowly and pull the meat from the oxtail bones with a fork .

Makes a thick glutinous yummy gravy, gook in Guiness or any stout is even better .

shammy

poodlehorse

Agree with adding stout, DH is the piemaker in this house and he insists on Sweetheart Stout, his steak pie is out of this world. I think mushrooms are nice in it too but sometimes he forgets to add them in. Wow you have one lucky daughter. Although I like my steak pies hot and with potatoes and sprouts, English mustard and a nice full bodied red. I think that would have to be my last supper. He just uses stewing steak. HE made individual ones for me for when I was preggers and he was away, we used those dishes you get pate in around Christmas and they were just the right size for one.

marco_79

Hello there,

I have a wee query maybe you clever people can help me out with.

Unfortunatly myself and 5 others will be working a 12 hour day shift tomorrow 7-7. So dinner is at work tomorrow.

I have an eight portion steak pie weighing 3lbs, it's already cooked jusst needs reheated. Whats the best way - maybe put the meat in a pan with some extra gravy and stick the pastry in the oven at 180 for twenty mins or should i put the whole thing in the oven and if so what at and for how long.

Doing the veg in a steamer so can manage that lol.

Thanks for your help and Happy New Year when it comes.

Marco

whatatwit

If it's already made into a pie, put it in oven at 170, bit less for a fan oven for 30 mins or so....just check it's really hot before serving....

marco_79

Thanks, ye it is already made into a pie.

npsmama

Does anyone have a good recipe for this please?
And a good pastry recipe?

If anyone remembers what the chicken and ham pie that the kitchen ladies on the HFW Chicken Out...that's the type of thing I'm after.

TIA!

Pink.

Hi npsmama,

There's an older thread on making steak pie that should help so I've added your post to it to keep the replies together.

For the pastry have a look at this thread:

Making pastry

Pink

Smiley_Mum

KarensKraftyBits wrote: »

Just thought id share with you my beef pie recipe my mum used to make and now i make for my family.

You will need....
Diced beef
3 carrots
2 large onions
half a tub of mushrooms
Tin of marrowfat peas
4oxos
Shortcrust pastry

Dice the beef up and put on to boil with 2 large chopped onions ( sliced not diced) Boil for a hour and a hal and keep the water topped up to quarter of the saucepan.

While this is cooking boil carrots and mushrooms intill soft.

After a hour and half add 4 oxos to the beef , the water should be still quarter of the way at this point. And add the carrots and mushrooms and leave to simmer for half hour intill sauce thickens.
5 minutes before you put the sauce into oven dish add the tin of peas and stir.

Put into oven dish and add some short crust pastry.
Put in the oven for 20 minutes on a medium heat and serve with roast potatos and mushy peas or cabbage and gravy.


Enjoy xxx

Do you boil or simmer the stew. Just I remember reading in an old cookery book a quote, a stew boiled is a stew spoiled.

Downsizing__for_sanity

I would just add that it tastes LOADS better if you coat the beef in seasoned flour, fry in a bit of veg oil to brown first. I also add half a stick of cinnnamon and a clove, sounds odd but really adds something to the flavour. The longer you cook it the better, so a slowcooker is probably the cheapest energy option.

I cut out the pastry into circles and cook them seperately on a baking tray - means less waste and you can freeze them cooked if they don't get eaten! ( I'm going to try a recipe for cheese straws tomorrow using leftover puff pastry..will let you all know how it turns out....)

Bellie_2

Hi I hve steak and puff pastry to make a steak pie. Only problem is I dont know how to make one. Does anyone have a recipie please