Beef, Guiness and Mushroom Pies

Ingredients

• 1.25 kg diced chuck steak
• flour
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• olive oil
• 6 small pickling onions, peeled and cut into quarters
• 250g button mushrooms, halved if necessary
• 1 tablespoon freshly chopped herbs (thyme, marjoram)
• 500 ml Guiness
• 2 cloves garlic, sliced
• 500 ml beef stock
• puff pastry

Directions

Toss beef in flour seasoned with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Heat olive oil in a pan and cook beef in batches until golden brown. Add onions, mushrooms, guiness, garlic and stock to the pan and bring to the boil. Reduce heat, cover and leave to cook for 2 hours. Check seasoning. Preheat oven to 200 C Line large muffin tins or soufflé dishes with pastry and spoon in filling. Top with either pastry or herb scone mix and cook for 20 minutes until pastry is puffed and golden.

Serves 6