Beef Wellington Recipe Needed Pls!

Lilyplonk

Wonder if it would work with pork fillet?

Or how about a turkey, or chicken, breast fillet - depending on how many you were going to feed .

Dunroamin

Beef Wellington and cheap cut are not concepts that go together in any way.

Lilyplonk

........ well, not unless you come across on one that's been whoopsied. I have seen them, on occasion, in Asda - but you've gotta be pretty darn quick to get them at the moment they're reduced to a feasible price .

Spendless

You need to find a cut that slices easily. I discovered this to my cost when I went searching for something suitable one christmas-time when the shelves were bare. I bought a different cut and it wasn't cheap and then found when I cooked it they tell you to use fillet for a reason! I couldn't slice mine, it was too tough.

lovesabargain123

Seakay wrote: »

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buying a cheap cut very much depends on where you live and what shops you have access to
Do you just have supermarkets?
Do you have independent butchers or branches of chains?
Do you ave a market with butchers' stalls?

Sorry yes we have all supermarkets here, asda tesco sainsburys,aldi,lidl,farm foods

Yes a couple of local butchers too

No markets with meat stalls but I'm in Manchester centre at the end of the week if anyone knows a meat stall near there ? X

shell2001

I made a version with chicken breasts. Made individual ones, part cooked chicken then spread with garlic and herb philly and hm mushroom stuffing. Turned out really nice. Otherwise fillet all the way but individual ones may work out cheaper as you could get away with smaller size bits of meat.

lovesabargain123

Oh good plan with chicken and I'll keep my eye out for fillet x

lama_pdx

Would you be willing to forgo the meat altogether? If so, try a brown-rice-and-mushroom wellington! It's one of my favourite vegetarian dishes. A layer of cooked brown rice (with wild rice if you like), then a layer of spinach, then a layer of sauted mushrooms and onions, then a layer of blue cheese. Wrap it all up in puff pastry. For extra flavour, sprinkle thyme all over the puff pastry before rolling it, so that the thyme gets embedded in the pastry.

clothhany

I went for a cooking demonstration at a very posh hotel just before xmas. They showed how to make beef wellington with beef skirt. Basicly casserole it but let in reduce until its quite dry. Then allow it to cool, mould in pieced of clingfilm into a large sausage shape and refridgerate over night. Then basicly use as if it were fillet. Blooming lush!!!!

Seakay

lovesabargain123 wrote: »

Sorry yes we have all supermarkets here, asda tesco sainsburys,aldi,lidl,farm foods

Yes a couple of local butchers too

No markets with meat stalls but I'm in Manchester centre at the end of the week if anyone knows a meat stall near there ? X

Local butchers are good because they can give you advice when you buy - there may be other places which sell items more cheaply but with a local butcher you can go in, say what you want to do and get good information about alternatives.

Good market stalls are the same, and often cheaper because of fewer overheads; I'm sure someone will be on to advise you about Manchester, I only know Cardiff.

Generally speaking, Aldi and Lidl have better quality cheap meat that other supermarkets because they adhere to German regulations on additives ie you aren't allowed to pump a joint full of water to make it weigh more and appear bigger.