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Cheat's steak & ale pie
This cheat’s steak & ale pie recipe uses ready-made puff pastry to save time. Skirt is perfect for slow cooking, but braising steak works just as well.
This cheat’s steak & ale pie recipe uses ready-made puff pastry to save time. Skirt is perfect for slow cooking, but braising steak works just as well.
(29 votes)
Cook: 3 Hours 25 Mins
Serves: 8
Price: £1.50 per serving
Nutritional Information
Each 480g serving contains
Energy
2875kj
687kcal
2875kj
687kcal
34%
Fat
30g
30g
High
43%
43%
Saturates
13g
13g
Med
66%
66%
Sugars
9.1g
9.1g
Med
10%
10%
Salt
1.4g
1.4g
Med
24%
24%
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
599kj/143kcal
Typical energy values per 100g:
599kj/143kcal
Ingredients
3 x 442g packs Asda Beef Braising Steak
50g plain flour, seasoned
2 onions, chopped
2 tbsp oil
15g butter
500ml Asda Extra Special Whitechapel Porter Ale
300ml hot beef stock
500g Ready to Roll Puff Pastry
1 egg, lightly beaten
350g cabbage, to serve
New potatoes, to serve
Method
1
Pre-heat the oven to 160/140C Fan/Gas 3. Cut the beef into 2cm pieces, trimming any fat, and coat with the flour.
2
Fry the onion in half the oil until soft. Cook the beef in batches in the butter and oil until brown. Add the onion and beef to a casserole dish. Pour the ale and stock over the meat, cover and cook for 2 ½ hours. Divide between two dishes. Leave to cool. Heat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
3
Roll the pastry out to make two lids, with a 1cm overlap. Cut two thin strips.
4
Lay the strips on the damp edge of the pie dishes. Brush with the egg and top with the pastry. Make a central hole, brush with egg and bake one pie for 30 minutes.
5
Serve with the veg. Freeze the other pie.