Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling
Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, slow cooker beef pie filling. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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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.

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

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

If mixture starts to get dry add a little bit of water, depending on slow cooker heat. 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.

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

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. Pour in beef stock and add the parsley, thyme and garlic powder. Simmer for a couple of minutes.

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