Card Color
#e91720
Card Label
Christmas
Recipe Name
Mini Beef Wellingtons
Difficulty
Hard
Total Time
02:30
Serves
Approx. 6 pieces/ 2 small Wellingtons
Introduction
A crowd-pleasing recipe that everyone will enjoy.
Ingredients
- 250g Beef fillet
- 100g Large spinach leaves
- 2 Pancakes
- Pre rolled Puff pastry
- 30ml Olive oil
- 250g Chestnut mushrooms
- 1 Onion, finely chopped
- 2 cloves Garlic, finely chopped
- 30g Butter
- 50g Double cream
- To taste Salt and pepper
Method
- Step 1Heat the oil, add the onion and sweat for 2-3 minutes, add the mushrooms and cook for 5-6 minutes, add the butter and cook for a further 10-12 minutes until they are soft and golden brown.
- Step 2Add the cream and bring to the boil, juice by half and remove from the heat.
- Step 3Leave to cool and then blend slightly.
- Step 4For the beef wellington: take the beef fillet and cut into 2 equally sized cylinder shaped pieces.
- Step 5Season and in a hot pan, quickly brown all the edges, remove from the pan and leave to rest.
- Step 6Cook the spinach for 15 seconds in boiling salted water, put straight into iced water. Leave for 1 minute then drain and dry on paper.
- Step 7To assemble the Wellingtons start by laying spinach leaves out to three times the size of the beef, wrap the beef in the spinach. Set aside.
- Step 8Lay 1 pancake down and spread with the duxelle, place the wrapped beef on top and roll the whole thing into a cylinder, trimming any excess pancake off. Refrigerate for 20- 30 minutes.
- Step 9Cut a piece of the puff pastry, large enough to fit the beef, place the beef on 1 edge and roll tightly over and press the 2 sides down.
- Step 10Trim any excess pastry off and refrigerate for a further 20 minutes.
- Step 11Pre heat an oven to 200C, remove the Wellingtons from the fridge and gently score the top with the back of a knife, whisk an egg yolk and brush the top of the Wellington.
- Step 12Cook for 12-15 minutes until the pastry is golden brown, leave to rest for 5- 10 minutes before carving into 12 equally sized pieces.
- Step 13Serve with gravy.
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