Slow Cooker Steak Pie

Slow Cooker Steak Pie

An easy Homemade Steak Pie, falling apart beef, rich gravy topped with delicious shortcrust pasty. Using your slow cooker to cook the beef

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp Olive oil
• 25 g Plain Flour
• 1 Kg Braising steak cut into 3cm pieces / Or casserole beef / stewing steak
• 2 Beef Stock cubes or stock pots
• 1 Pt Water
• Salt & Black pepper
• 320 g Shortcrust Pastry chilled ready rolled
• 1 Egg
• 2 tbsp Gravy Granules

Instructions

1. Grab a large frying pan and add your olive oil
2. Roll your beef pieces lightly in flour. In two batches, quickly flash fry for 2 -3 minutes, you are looking for colour on the beef not to cook it
3. Turn your slow cooker on and set at low
4. Add your browned beef to the slow cooker followed by your water and dissolved stock cubes, to cover the beef
5. Pop the lid on and leave to cook on low for 6-8 hours until your beef is really tender
6. Once cooked, tip out about half of your liquid into a bowl (this will be your delicious gravy) put aside
7. Next add 1-2 tablespoons gravy granules to thicken your meat mix – it will go quite thick
8. Allow to cool – you could pop this in the fridge and make the pie the next day if you want to
9. Preheat the oven 200C / 180C fan / Gas 6
10. Get yourself an oven proof baking tin / dish. You can use round or rectangle, or individual pie dishes
11. Pop the cooled beef in the bottom of your dish
12. Next unroll your pastry and lay over your dish. Or cut out hearts, stars and overlay them on the meat filling, ensuring you cover the meat totally
13. Brush with your beaten egg
14. Bake in the centre of the oven and bake for 25-30 minutes – until your pastry is baked and golden brown
15. Then serve, don’t forget the (put aside) meat juices to make your gravy!! Delicious