The luck of the Irish can be found everyday…mostly in a pub, with Irish stew and stout close by! We take a lesson in happiness from the Irish, and have put together a delicious Steak and Irish Stout Pie recipe. This recipe is quite hands off and yields enough for the entire family- and then some! Make sure time to pick up some Guinness (or the stout of your choice) to enjoy with the recipe!
Ingredients:
- 1kg round steak, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 85g cooking butter
- 8 slices bacon, finely chopped
- 5 onions, minced
- 100g fresh mushrooms, sliced (optional)
- A bottle/can Irish stout beer (such as Guinness®)
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
- 1 tablespoon raisins (optional)
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar
- 1 package (500g) double-crust pie pastry, thawed
Method:
- Preheat oven to 165 degrees C
- Place steak cubes onto a plate and sprinkle with flour.
- Place butter and bacon into a large skillet over medium heat; heat until butter melts and bacon begins to sizzle. Stir floured steak cubes into bacon and hot butter and cook, stirring frequently, until steak and bacon are browned, 10 to 15 minutes.
- Transfer steak mixture to a large casserole dish.
- Cook and stir onion and mushrooms in the same skillet over medium heat until onions are lightly browned and mushrooms are tender, about 10 minutes. Transfer to casserole dish with steak mixture.
- Stir Irish stout beer, parsley, raisins, and brown sugar into steak mixture. Cover dish tightly with aluminum foil.
- Bake in the preheated oven, stirring occasionally, until gravy has thickened and steak is tender, about 2 1/2 hours.
- Remove casserole dish from oven and increase temperature to 200 degrees C
- Line a deep-dish 29 cm pie dish with a pie crust and bake in the preheated oven until crust is partially cooked and lightly browned, about 10 minutes.
- Spoon cooked steak filling into the partially-baked pie crust.
- Cover steak filling with second pie crust; pinch the top crust against the bottom crust to seal tightly.
- Bake pie until top crust is golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes.