Sautéed Staffordshire beef with and oat pastry and local beer

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Sautéed Staffordshire beef with and oat pastry and local beer

Recipe supplied by Heart of England Fine Foods.

Ingredients
1 ½ lbs - Rump steak
1 - Onion
6ozs - Mushrooms
1 Bottle local beer (some for cooking, some for you!)
½ pint Thickened beef stock
olive oil

Pastry:
4oz - Plain flour
4ozs - Oatmeal
1 - Egg
4ozs - Butter
seasoning

Method

Mix the flour and oatmeal in a food processor, add butter and seasoning, add the egg and some water.

Roll as demonstrated and cook in medium oven for 15 minutes.

Dice the rump steak into ½ cubes.

Peel and finely dice the onion and quarter the mushrooms.

Heat a pan and sautée the beef. Add the mushrooms and onion and cook for 30 seconds, add some beer and reduce by ½.

Add the beef stock.

Serve with mashed Moat House Maris Piper potatoes and the oat pastry as shown.