- Yield: 1
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 2h 30 minutes
- Serving: For 6 people
Beef Stew with Pastry-Traditional Newfoundland
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I'm so glad you stopped by, I guess you are looking for a delicious beef stew with pastry. Will look no further, this beef stew is so easy to make you will be so delighted.
Our beef stew is full of fresh local vegetables and seasoned perfectly, I like making this meal with beef that got some fat on it. Frying the beef until its golden brown and the marbling in the beef helps build those big flavours you need for your stew. Then adding the seasonings to the frying pan to bring out the heat and flavours to enhance your dish.
This is a prefect meal on a cold winters day, it will remind you of back in the day when the stews would be slow cooked on a big wood burning stove and then baked in the oven just right.
Homemade pastry for the top of your beef stew made with cold butter to help make your pastry nice and flaky.
Don't be afraid to use more seasonings for your taste make it your own by just checking the flavours after its cooked in your pot and add more as needed. I'm going to share a couple of links to more delicious recipes you may like to make, before you more on to my recipe for beef stew with pastry.
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Ingredients
- Beef Stew:
- Stewing Beef or Chopped Roast - 1 lb.
- Flour - 1 Tbsp
- Olive oil - 1 Tbsp
- Potatoes - 3 Medium
- Onion - 1 Medium
- Celery - 2 Sticks
- Carrots - 3 Large
- Parsnip - 1 Small
- Turnip - ½ Small
- Frozen Green Peas - 1 Cup
- Diced unsalted tomatoes - 1 - 15oz Can
- Beef or Vegetables broth - 2 Cups
- Worcestershire sauce - 1 Tsp
- Thyme - ½ Tsp
- Smoked Paprika - ½ Tsp
- Garlic - 2 cubes chopped
- Sea salt - ½ Tsp
- Black pepper - 1 Tsp freshly grated
- Butter - 2 Tsp
- Pastry:
- Butter - ½ Cup cold
- Sea salt - ½ Tsp
- Water - 3 Tbsp cold
- Flour - 1 Cup
Instructions
Method for Beef Stew:
1 - Preheat frying pan to medium heat on stove top, when ready add 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 tsp butter, chopped beef, cook until brown on both sides. Add chopped onions, fry until it starts to get golden brown, then add 1 tbsp of garlic and 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce, 1/2 tsp smoked paprika, 1/2 tsp sea salt, 1/2 tsp thyme, 1 tsp pepper.
Please note: only cook garlic for a minute until the flavours start to release don't let it burn because it will charge the flavour. Remove meat from frying pan and put into your medium pot and set aside.
2 - In the same frying pan add 1 tsp butter let melt then add 1 tbsp flour,mix it around the pan until the flour starts to brown, add 1 cup of beef or vegetable broth let thicken then set aside until the last 20 minutes of your cooking step.
3 - In your medium pot add all your vegetables and the remaining beef or vegetable broth and tomatoes, put on medium to low heat on stove top for 1½ hours stirring occasionally, the last 30 minutes add your thickening to the pot.
4 - After your cooking time have completed add your thickening mix together, let it continue cooking for another 30 minutes.
5 - When beef stew have cooked remove from heat and start scooping it into your round pie pan, don't over fill your pie pan,it needs room to breathe when the baking starts. The remainder of beef stew scoop into a jar to have later.
Method for Pastry:
1 - In a large bowl add all ingredients not the water and start mixing with your hand until all the butter is equally mixed through, then add the 3 tbsp cold water and mix until it starts to form a ball, at this time you can place your dough in the fridge until you are ready to roll out your dough.
2 - Remove dough from fridge and put on a piece of parchment paper covered with flour, roll with your rolling pin until it is the size of your round pan.
3 - Put the dough on top of the beef stew in the pie pan and pinch the sides to seal the pan, then cut one or two inch cuts in the top of the dough. This will help the beef stew to breathe and release any steam from the stew.
4 - Pre heat oven to 350°F, place pie in the oven on a piece of foil wrap, bake pie for 30 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from heat, place on the counter until it reaches room temperature before you cut beef stew with pastry pie. Enjoy!
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This recipe for beef stew is so easy to make you will add it to your weekly menu, slow cooked beef stew is the best way to make it. I have a beautiful video here for you to follow and I hope you get to make this beef stew with pastry soon.
This beef stew is packed full of fresh local vegetables and slow cooked on the stove top then baked in the oven to brown off the pastry. Mmmmm
So many ways to make beef stew with pastry and I’m sure they are just as delicious, but I hope you have enjoyed our video and recipe to our beef stew. Please take the time to leave me a message before you go and enjoy over 400+ recipes I have posted to my website. I will share with you a dessert recipe before you go and I hope you enjoy this link.
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Bonita: You take care of us with these beautiful meals. Sometimes, I think I can smell the delicious food you prepare. Put your feet up and relax for the rest of the day.
Hahaha thank you Mary I’m glad you are enjoying them and I’m more then happy to bring them to you. My feet is up and you have a wonderful day. Bonita
How do I make a paste to go on my roast in the oven ? Thank you Josephine ?
Hi Josephine: Thank you for your message and for visiting my channel, this is a lovely pastry but I’m think the one you are looking for is a thicker paste. You can use the same recipe as a steamed pudding, just use less sugar and plain pastry. I hope this help just search in the recipes for pudding, enjoy. Bonita
Hi Bonita,
I am so glad to find you! My mom was English and lived in the Upper Peninsula in Michigan, US. It was a copper mining town with English, French, Italian and Finnish men working the mines. My Mom would make a stew using beef, onions, carrots and rutabaga. She would top it off with a pie pastry and bake it in the oven. It would be served over mashed potatoes. It was my first choice for my birthday meals.
I am making this meal today using venison. I needed to know how long to bake the pastry casserole in the oven.
Thank You and Merry Christmas, Cheryl
Hi Cheryl, Thank you for your message and for stopping by, I’m so glad you are going to make our beef stew recipe, https://youtu.be/zVSfKlAXhVk this recipe is for baking and I have doughboys as the pastry, but you can make the other stew and make a pastry. Just click the link to our recipe and video. Enjoy and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Bonita
This sounds delicious, Bonita. I particularly like the way you make the thickening! My husband loves the old fashioned pastry baked on top of the stew. But I’m always uneasy that the bottom will be soggy or that baking the pastry will use up too much of the yummy cooking liquid. ?♀️
Hi Bonnie, Thank you so much for your message and for stopping by, I’m so glad you are going to make our tasty stew and pastry recipe. The bottom of our pie got no pastry only the top, this will give you the taste of pastry but the piece of mine its not going to be doughy. Slow cook stew and a tasty beef stew and pasty pie. Enjoy to the fullest and we post a NEW video and recipe every Sunday if you wish to join our email list. You can unsubscribe at any time and get to enjoy all our videos. 🙂 Thank you Bonita