Hearty Winter Recipes

Beef & Kidney Pot Pies, with chunky chutney

Match with a Black Beer

Food and Wine Matching - Beef & Kidney Pot Pies, with chunky chutney

Serves

Mains for six

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 onion, peeled and chopped
  • 2 celery sticks, finely chopped
  • 1 kg topside steak, trimmed and cut into 4 cm cubes
  • 250g ox kidney, skinned, cored and sliced
  • 3 tablespoons plain flour, seasoned with salt and pepper
  • 2 cups beef stock
  • 2 cups Stout
  • 5 sprigs fresh thyme
  • 10 Swiss brown mushrooms, wiped and quartered
  • 625g puff pastry (homemade or bought)
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1 jar of chutney

Method

  1. Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a heavy-based saucepan, add the onion and celery, fry on low heat until softened, but not browned, then remove and put on a plate.
  2. Heat the remaining oil in the pan and fry the steak and kidney in batches until evenly browned.
  3. Remove the meat as it browns and put it with the onion.
  4. Stir the flour into the pan, then gradually stir in the stock and Stout.
  5. Bring to the boil, stirring and scraping any brown residue off the bottom of the pan.
  6. Return the meat, onion and celery to the pan, adding any juices left on the plate.
  7. Bring to the boil, add the thyme, then reduce the heat, cover and simmer on the lowest possible heat for 3 hours, or until the meat is tender.
  8. Add the mushrooms and cook for 10 minutes.
  9. Grease the sides of each pie pot, and cut out rounds from the pastry sheets. Place them on top of the pots making sure there is an over hang of 5cm, to allow for shrinkage.
  10. Remove the meat from the heat, season to taste with salt and pepper and transfer into the pie pots.
  11. Add enough of the meat juices to cover the meat, but be sure not to overfill the pots.
  12. Brush the top of the pie with the beaten egg and make a small hole in the centre of the pastry.
  13. Bake the pie for 20 to 30 minutes at 200°C.
  14. Remove and serve with chutney and bread.

Beer match

Monteiths Brewing Co Black Beer 330mL New zealand

Monteith’s Brewing Co.

Black Beer 330mL
NEW ZEALAND 5.2% ABV

With biscuit, nut, caramel, chocolate and coffee malt characteristics, akin to the rich black beers historically produced on the west coast of NZ.

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