Recipe for 4 - 6 people

Ingredients:

1 kg Good Quality Large Diced Beef
400G Diced onions,400ml dry red wine
400ml beef broth
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tbsp plain flour
2 bay leaves
2 thyme sprigs
25g Knorr Demi- Glace
250g Puff Pastry
1 Egg
1tsp poppy seeds (optional), Salt & Pepper

Instructions:

Pie Mix:

Pre-heat the oven to 160°C and set a rack in the lower middle position.
heat some oil in a large pot or casserole dish and brown the meat in 3batches.
Transfer the meat to a large plate and set aside.
Add the onions cook, stirring with a wooden spoon and scraping thebrown bits from bottom of the pan, for about 5 minutes.
Add the beef with its juices back to the pan and sprinkle with flour.
Stir until the flour is dissolved, 1 to 2 minutes.
Add the wine, beef broth, and water to cover the meat, add bay leaf,thyme, bring to a boil. Cover the pot with a lid.
transfer to the preheated oven, and braise for 2 hours.
Remove the pot from the oven and add the carrots and mix in Demiglace powder mixed in 100ml of Hot water .
Cover and place back in oven for about an hour more, or until thevegetables are cooked, the broth is thickened, and the meat is tender.

Pastry:

Use ready-made puff pastry to quickly and easily make crispy pastry for the pies
cut 4 to 6 circle of puff pastry 1cm wider than the top of the bowl youwill use to serve and put on tray with baking paper
Brush the pastry with the mixed egg (sprinkle with poppy seeds)
bake in the oven for 25 mins or until the pastry is golden and crisp

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