Steak & Kidney Pie
Cuisine: Good old mums cooking
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Serves: 6
A firm all time winner
Ingredients
- Filling
- 225 g Lamb Kidneys
- 700 g Chuck Steak
- 1 tbs Vegetable Oil
- Knob of Butter
- 2 Onions, Chopped Roughly
- 2 tbs Flour
- 2 Bay Leaves
- 4 Sprigs Fresh Thyme (Leaves Only)
- 570 ml Beef Stock
- 4 Brown Mushrooms, Thickly Sliced
- 1 tsp Tomato Puree
- 1 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
- 3 tbs Chopped fresh Parsley
- Pastry
- 175 g Butter
- 225 g Flour
- 8 tbs Water
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- Beaten Egg
Instructions
Filling
- Halve the kidneys and cut out the tubes
- Rinse in cold water and remove the skins
- Cut into small pieces
- Trim and cut steak into cubes
- Hight oil and butter in a large frying pan
- Add onions and fry for 3-4 min while stirring
- Add meat and fry for 2-3 min until it looses its pink colour
- Stir in the flour and cook for 2 min
- Add herbs and stock
- stir until thickened and coming to the boil
- Add mushrooms and puree
- Lower the heat and simmer for 11/2 hours till meat is tender
- Remove bay leaves and season with salt and pepper and worcestershire sauce
- Allow to cool
Pastry
- Wrap butter in foil and freeze for 45 min
- Add salt to the flour
- Dip frozen butter in the flour and coarsely grate
- Keep dipping butter into the flour as you grate
- Mix in the butter with a knife till evenly coated with flour
- Stir in the water to form a dough
- Gently form into a ball, wrap in cling film and chill for 30 min
- Roll out the pastry on a floured surface to 5 mm thick and 2,5 cm wider than a 1.2 liter pie dish
- Cut out the lid so it is slightly larger than the pie dish
- Cut a strip of pastry the width of the rim
- Stir the parsley into the meat and transfer into the pie dish
- Brush the rim with egg, lay pastry on top and seal
- Brush with egg and place lid on top
- Seal the edges and flute the edge
- Cut a slit in the lid and brush with egg (not the edges or they won’t rise)
Bake
- Preheat oven to 200 C
- Bake for 20 min, then brush with egg again
- Bake for 10 min till pastry is golden