Steak Pie

enough for 3 persons

Ingredients

• 1 ½ lbs stewing beef or braising beef – cut into 1.5” cubes or slices
• 3 large onions – cut into segments like orange (leave root on so they don’t fall to bits)
• 1 large potato diced nicely small ¼ “

• 3 tablespoons plain flour
• 2-3 stock cubes
• pepper – no salt due to stock cubes
• ½ pint beer or guiness + 1 tsp sugar
• ¾ pint water
• thyme and bay leaves.

Bought puff pastry.

Method

Saute onions and potatoes for 2-3 minutes in frying pan. Put into stew pan. Brown meat in two batches in onion pan ( so pan doesn’t go cold) Put first batch into stew pan with onions and potatoes. Brown second batch of meat, leave in pan and sprinkle with half the flour, turn meat over and sprinkle with other half of flour. Stir it around a bit. Add beer, water, stock cubes, herbs and seasoning, bring to boil. Put whole lot into stew pan, bring to boil and simmer for 2 hours -2 ½ hours, depending on whether you are Gordon Ramsay. Add more thyme towards end of cooking time for greater pleasure.

If Gordon Ramsay Cook meat for 2 ½ hours, but during last 30 mins roll out and bake pastry on baking sheet. Bake in oven 220 degrees for 10 -15 minutes max. Serve meat and put cooked pastry on top.

If not Gordon Ramsay Cook meat for 2 hours, put into pie dish or dishes, roll out pastry and use to cover pie dish. Bake in oven 220 degrees, 20 minutes approx