Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling
Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, slow cooker beef pie filling. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

In a slow cooker, add the beef, onions, garlic, thyme, parsley, Worcestershire sauce, and the beef stock. Mix the cornstarch and water until it forms a paste. Transfer the wine and beef to a slow cooker. Add the rest of the pie filling ingredients.

Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook slow cooker beef pie filling using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling:
  1. Make ready 250 grams cubed stewing beef
  2. Prepare 1 large onion
  3. Take 1 parsnip or root veg of your choice peeled (eg carrot, turnip)
  4. Take 2 clove garlic
  5. Take 400 grams tin of tomatoes (mashed to lumpy mush)
  6. Make ready 2 cubes of beef stock
  7. Take 1 half fill the empty tin of tomatoes with either red wine or water
  8. Take 2 bay leaves
  9. Get 1 big pinch of salt and pepper
  10. Make ready 1 few sprigs of fresh thyme off the stalk

When ready to make the pie, transfer the steak mixture from the slow cooker to an ovenproof dish and place pastry on top. Pour your brown gravy packets in a small bowl and slowly pour in your beef broth while whisking it all together. Pour your brown gravy mixture in your crock pot and stir everything until well mixed. Melt the stock cubes in the hot water and pour over the meat and vegetables in the slow cooker, then add the tomato paste and sugar and stir through.

Steps to make Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling:
  1. brown the beef off in a pan on a high heat. make sure to do half the beef at a time to not over crowd. add to the slow cooker pot
  2. roughly dice the onion and parsnip. thinly slice the garlic. add it all to the pot and the water/wine
  3. add the tomatoes and crumble the stock cubes into the pot. add the bay leaves, thyme and salt and pepper
  4. put the lid on and leave for 4 hours
  5. once the meat is tender and falls apart turn off the heat. using a holed spoon remove the meat. either transfer the juices to a pan and simmer until reduced. or as I like to do to make the juices richer sprinkle 2tbsp of beef gravy granules and mix in.
  6. layer a pie dish with pastry then the meat. pour the juices (now gravy) over the top and top with more pastry. baste the lid with milk, melted butter or beaten egg. poke a couple of holes in the top and bake until pastry is golden brown
  7. skip out the pastry and just enjoy as a rich hearty stew

Pour your brown gravy mixture in your crock pot and stir everything until well mixed. Melt the stock cubes in the hot water and pour over the meat and vegetables in the slow cooker, then add the tomato paste and sugar and stir through. The meat and vegetables should be submerged in the liquid. I made the beef filling part of this recipe in the slow cooker and then added to the pastry and popped it in the oven. As I don't like red meat I split the slow cooked beef into two portions, froze one portion as pre-prepared filling for a future pie and used one to make tonight's pie.

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