Delicious Steak Pasties
How to make delicious Steak pasties, using homemade puff pastry, easy step by step instructions from start to finish.
Ingredients
Method
- Puff pastry (See previous video)
- 300g / 11oz Plain or all-purpose flour
- 250g / 8.8oz Cold unsalted butter
- 125g /mls Cold water
- 4g / ½tsp Salt
- 6mls / 1tsp Lemon or lime juice
- Egg wash, (thoroughly whisk up one small egg, with a dash of milk)
- Pasty filling:
- 400g / 14oz Lean Stewing or Casserole beef
- 1 Small onion (finely chopped)
- 285mls / ½ Pint Beef stock
- Salt and white pepper to taste
- 6mls / 1tsp Worcestershire sauce (optional)
- 2 Small Bay leaves (optional)
- 20g / 2Tbls Gravy granules
- 2tbls Olive or vegetable oil
- Making the filling:
- Dice the beef into 13mm / ½inch cubes.
- Finely chop the onion.
- Place a pan on a medium heat, and add the oil.
- Once hot, add the onion and fry until soft.
- Add the beef to the pan, and fry until it has a little colour.
- Pour in your beef stock, and bring to a simmer.
- Season with salt and white pepper to taste.
- Add the Worcester sauce and the bay leaves.
- Put on the lid, and on your very lowest heat, simmer for 1½ to 2 hours, or until the meat is tender.
- Once tender, thicken the stew with the gravy granules.
- Allow the filling to completely cool.
- Preparing the puff pastry:
- See my previous video on how to make puff pastry
- Roll out your pastry into a rectangle, until it is 4mm thick.
- For this recipe you need cut out 4 pieces, 17.5 x 12.5cm / 7x 5in.
- Place each sheet on a slightly larger piece of floured parchment paper, stacked and refrigerated.
- Take one sheet of pastry at a time from the fridge, keep it on the paper.
- Add some filling to one side of the pastry, leaving a gap around the edge.
- Brush the egg wash all around the exposed pastry, fold the pastry over the filling, and seal around the edge using a fork.
- Place the pasty, whilst still on the parchment paper, onto a baking tray, repeat for the other 3 pasties.
- At this point, preheat your oven to, 170°C / 340°F / Gas mark 3.
- Give each pasty a good coat of the egg wash, and cut 3 small vents in each one, using a sharp knife.
- Place in the preheated oven and bake for 50 minutes.
- Remove from the oven allow to cool, or serve straight away piping hot.
- Enjoy
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