Steps to Make Ultimate Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, slow cooker beef pie filling. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook 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. Prepare 1 large onion
3. Prepare 1 parsnip or root veg of your choice peeled (eg carrot, turnip)
4. Make ready 2 clove garlic
5. Make ready 400 grams tin of tomatoes (mashed to lumpy mush)
6. Prepare 2 cubes of beef stock
7. Make ready 1 half fill the empty tin of tomatoes with either red wine or water
8. Get 2 bay leaves
9. Take 1 big pinch of salt and pepper
10. Prepare 1 few sprigs of fresh thyme off the stalk

Instructions 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

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