Ingredients
| 500 g | Beef rumps (Main) |
| 1 | Small onion, diced |
| 2 Tbsp | Olive oil |
| 1 to taste | Salt |
| 2 | Bay leaves |
| 2 | Garlic cloves, peeled and chopped |
| 1 stem | Celery, (diced) |
| 1 | Baby carrot, (peeled and diced) |
| 1 Tbsp | Plain flour |
| 1 Tbsp | Dried kawakawa, (available from gourmet food stores) |
| 4 | Field mushrooms |
| 1 cup | Red wine |
| 2 cups | Beef stock |
| 2 sheets | Puff pastry |
| 1 | Egg, (yolk, whisked with 1Tbsp milk to make egg wash) |
Directions
- Preheat oven to 200C. In a large saucepan, heat oil then add onion, garlic, celery, carrot and kawakawa.
- Stir for 5 minutes over medium-high heat. Add beef and season. Continue stirring for 5 minutes, then add flour.
- Stir for another 5 minutes. Add wine, stock, mushrooms and bay leaves.
- Put lid onto saucepan, turn heat to low and gently simmer approximately 40 minutes, stirring occasionally until meat is tender and sauce has thickened.
- When filling has cooled, grease pie tins and line with pastry. Add filling and top with pastry.
- Seal edges, then brush with egg and bake for 20 minutes.
