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Steak & chips pie

Name: Steak & chips pie
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 3 h 30 min
Total time: 3 h 50 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 2 tbsp sunflower oil plus extra for the dish; 750g-1kg braising steak (or topside) sliced into 6 thin steaks (buy a joint and do it yourself if you can’t find any already sliced); 2 onions chopped; 4 medium carrots chopped; 1 tsp treacle sugar or golden caster sugar; 1 tbsp plain flour; 175ml red wine; 2 beef stock cubes diluted in 600ml hot water; small bunch thyme half of the leaves picked for the pastry and reserved; 3 bay leaves tied together; 500g block of shortcrust pastry; flour for dusting; 1 tsp dried porcini mushroom powder (optional); thyme leaves from the bunch used for the beef; 800g frozen oven chips

Barney Desmazery

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Serves 6

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Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 3 hrs and 30 mins

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Combine steak, chips, red wine gravy and wild mushrooms, then wrap it all up in a pie crust to enjoy one of the best mash-ups we’ve ever come up with

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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For the beef

2 tbsp sunflower oil

plus extra for the dish
750g-1kg braising steak

(or topside) sliced into 6 thin steaks (buy a joint and do it yourself if you can’t find any already sliced)
2 onions

chopped
4 medium carrots

chopped
1 tsp treacle

sugar or golden caster sugar
1 tbsp plain flour
175ml red wine
2 beef stock cubes

diluted in 600ml hot water
small bunch thyme

half of the leaves picked for the pastry and reserved
3 bay leaves

tied together

For the pastry

500g block of shortcrust pastry
flour

for dusting
1 tsp dried porcini mushroom powder

(optional)
thyme leaves

from the bunch used for the beef

For the chips

800g frozen oven chips

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Nutrition: Per serving

kcal972
fat48g
saturates16g
carbs87g
sugars9g
fibre11g
protein37g
salt1.7g

Method

step 1

Up to three days before, braise the steak. Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Heat half the oil in a flameproof casserole pan and brown the steaks really well on either side, then set aside. Add the onions and carrots to the pan, drizzle over a little more oil, then cook over a low heat for 5 mins until coloured. Drizzle over the treacle or add the sugar, and scatter in the flour, stirring until you have a brown paste clinging to the vegetables. Tip the meat and any juices back into the pan and give it all a good stir. Pour over the wine and stock, season, tuck in the herbs and bring everything to a simmer. Cover with a lid and cook in the oven for about two hours, or until the meat is tender, then leave to cool and chill until needed. Can be prepared up to two days ahead and chilled.
step 2

To make the pastry, roll out the block on a floured surface to the thickness of a £1 coin and scatter over the thyme leaves and mushroom powder. Fold the pastry into quarters and chill until needed. Or, to give the pastry a more interesting finish, scatter over the thyme and mushroom powder when you roll the pastry out to line the dish, rolling over them firmly so they stick. Can be prepared a day ahead and chilled.
step 3

Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7 and put a baking sheet in the oven. Oil a 24-28cm pie dish or tin (ideally with a lip) and dust well with flour. Roll out the pastry to a thick-ish round that will easily line the pie dish with a slight overhang, then line the dish. Lift the steak out of the gravy, then spoon in the vegetables and a little of the gravy and lay the steaks over the top to form an overlapping layer (serve any leftover gravy alongside in a small jug for pouring over). Pile the chips over the meat. Trim the edges of the pastry and crimp the edge. Bake for 40 mins until the chips and pie crust are golden – cover the chips loosely with foil if they are browning too quickly. Scatter over some salt then serve straight from the dish with the leftover gravy (reheated), and the rest of that bottle of red wine.

RECIPE TIPS

HOW DO YOU MAKE PORCINI POWDER?

Tip a pack of dried mushrooms into a spice grinder, a clean coffee grinder, or mortar and pestle, then blitz as much as you can to a powder. Keep any leftovers in an airtight jar.

HOW TO MAKE OVEN CHIPS

See the recipe we've devised for the best ever oven chips.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2018

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