Spiced braised beef pie

Name: Spiced braised beef pie
Prep time: 2 h 20 min
Cook time: 2 h 20 min
Total time: 2 h 20 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps vegetable oil; 1 kg good-quality braising steak, cut into 2½ cm chunks; 1 large onion, finely chopped; 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 1 small piece ginger, finely chopped; 2 teaspoons Sichuan peppercorn; 25 grams plain flour, plus a little extra for dusting; 1 Tbsp tomato purée; 3 mediums carrots, cut into large chunks; 2 star anise; 1 cinnamon stick; 100 milliliters soy sauce; 3 red chillies, left whole, but pierced; 375 grams pack ready rolled all-butter puff pastry; 1 egg, beaten

Spiced braised beef pie could be just the dairy free recipe you've been looking for. One portion of this dish contains around 43g of protein, 53g of fat, and a total of 807 calories. This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 34% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe from BBC Good Food requires carrots, tomato purée, onion, and pack ready rolled all-butter puff pastry. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 2 hours and 20 minutes. Users who liked this recipe also liked Braised beef & roasted garlic pie, Braised Spiced Beets, and Braised Spiced Short Ribs.

Instructions

Heat half the oil in a heavy-based flameproof casserole pan on a medium heat. Fry the meat in batches until browned, then remove from the pan and set aside.

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Meat

Cooking Oil

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Casserole Dish

Frying Pan

Turn down the heat, add the remaining oil to the pan and cook the onion, garlic and ginger for a few mins until starting to soften. Crush the Sichuan peppercorns using a pestle and mortar, then add the flour and mix well.

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Peppercorns

Garlic

Ginger

All Purpose Flour

Onion

Cooking Oil

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Mortar And Pestle

Frying Pan

Add the spiced flour to the onion, mix well until all the onion is coated, then return the meat to the pan along with the tomato pure, carrots, star anise and cinnamon. Give everything a good stir, scraping up any bits from the bottom of the pan. Cook for 1 min.

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Star Anise

Cinnamon

Carrot

Tomato

All Purpose Flour

Onion

Meat

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Frying Pan

Add the soy sauce, chillies and 400ml water. Bring up to a simmer and cook very slowly the sauce should be bubbling gently but not boiling for 1 hrs until the meat is really tender. Leave to cool.

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Soy Sauce

Chili Pepper

Sauce

Water

Meat

Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas

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Oven

Once cool, spoon the filling into a 2-litre pie dish, removing the cinnamon stick, chillies and star anise.

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Cinnamon Stick

Star Anise

Chili Pepper

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Pie Form

Roll out the puff pastry on a floured surface until it is about 2cm larger than the dish. Put a pie funnel in the middle of the pie (it will stop the pastry sinking and becoming soggy).

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Puff Pastry Sheets

Roll

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Funnel

Brush the edges of the dish with a little of the egg to help the pastry seal.

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Egg

Lay the pastry over the top, pressing down well. Pierce centre and trim off the excess pastry with a sharp knife.

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Brush liberally with egg and bake for 30-35 mins.

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Egg

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Servings:

2Tbsps

vegetable oil 1kg

good-quality braising steak, cut into 2½ cm chunks 1large

onion, finely chopped 2

garlic cloves, finely chopped 1small piece

ginger, finely chopped 2teaspoons

Sichuan peppercorn 25grams

plain flour, plus a little extra for dusting 1Tbsp

tomato purée 3mediums

carrots, cut into large chunks 2

star anise 1

cinnamon stick 100milliliters

soy sauce 3

red chillies, left whole, but pierced 375grams

pack ready rolled all-butter puff pastry 1

egg, beaten

Recommended wine: Lambrusco Dolce, Late Harvest Riesling, Vin Santo

Lambrusco Dolce, Late Harvest Riesling, and Vin Santo are great choices for Pie. These wines are all sweet, which is important since wine should usually be sweeter than the food you're pairing with it. One wine you could try is Angel Late Harvest Riesling. It has 5 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 19 dollars.