Beef And Guinness Pie

Total Time: 3 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 6 beef shins or 1 kg budget steak, diced
• 3 carrots, chopped chunky
• 2 celery ribs, chopped chunky
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 leek, chopped
• 2 teaspoons crushed garlic
• 1 tablespoon blackberry jam (or similar)
• 1 rosemary stick
• 1 cup gravy
• 1 stock, cube chicken or 1 beef
• 1 guinness stout (can)
• puff pastry, x 4 sheets
• oil

Recipe

• 1 brown the beef shins or diced beef in oil.
• 2 place in a casserole dish with the carrots, celery, leek, onion and garlic and1 can of guinness and cook for 1 hour 30 mins at 200 degrees celcius.
• 3 remove casserole dish and add the rest of the ingredients.
• 4 cook for a further 45 minutes.
• 5 remove the rosemary stick (rosemary should have fallen off the stick by now).
• 6 if unable to use your casserole dish as a pie dish, transfer all ingredients to a pie dish.
• 7 top with puff pastry and cook for a further 45 minutes.
• 8 remove and let settle for 5 minutes
• 9 serve with mashed potato or similar.