Beef And Guinness Pie

Total Time: 4 hrs 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 4 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3 tablespoons tomato paste
• 3 1/2 cups beef stock
• 4 lbs beef chuck, cut into 1 inch cubes
• 1 1/2 lbs mushrooms
• 1 large yellow onion, peeled and sliced
• 6 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
• 2 tablespoons fresh thyme
• 2 cups guinness stout (or other dark stout)
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• salt and pepper
• 1 egg, for egg wash
• 1 lb puff pastry, frozen or homemade

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 2 put tomato paste into a large bowl and whisk in stock until paste is dissolved.
• 3 add beef, mushrooms, onions, garlic, thyme and stout.
• 4 stir well.
• 5 sprinkle flour over beef mixture and season with salt and pepper.
• 6 stir well.
• 7 transfer to a deep 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 ovenproof baking dish and cover with foil.
• 8 bake stirring occasionally until meat is very tender- 3 1/2- 4 hours.
• 9 beat egg with 1 tsp water in a small bowl.
• 10 roll out puff pastry on a lightly floured surface to about 1/4 inch thick and 2 inches larger than the baking dish.
• 11 remove baking dish from oven, remove foil and drape pastry over dish.
• 12 brush with egg wash.
• 13 return dish to oven and bake until pastry is puffed and deep golden brown- about 40 minutes.