Recipe: Tasty Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling

Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling.

You can cook Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling

1. Prepare 250 grams of cubed stewing beef.
2. You need 1 large of onion.
3. It's 1 of parsnip or root veg of your choice peeled (eg carrot, turnip).
4. It's 2 clove of garlic.
5. Prepare 400 grams of tin of tomatoes (mashed to lumpy mush).
6. Prepare 2 of cubes of beef stock.
7. You need 1 of half fill the empty tin of tomatoes with either red wine or water.
8. You need 2 of bay leaves.
9. You need 1 of big pinch of salt and pepper.
10. You need 1 of few sprigs of fresh thyme off the stalk.

Slow Cooker Beef Pie Filling instructions

1. brown the beef off in a pan on a high heat. make sure to do half the beef at a time to not over crowd. add to the slow cooker pot.
2. roughly dice the onion and parsnip. thinly slice the garlic. add it all to the pot and the water/wine.
3. add the tomatoes and crumble the stock cubes into the pot. add the bay leaves, thyme and salt and pepper.
4. put the lid on and leave for 4 hours.
5. once the meat is tender and falls apart turn off the heat. using a holed spoon remove the meat. either transfer the juices to a pan and simmer until reduced. or as I like to do to make the juices richer sprinkle 2tbsp of beef gravy granules and mix in..
6. layer a pie dish with pastry then the meat. pour the juices (now gravy) over the top and top with more pastry. baste the lid with milk, melted butter or beaten egg. poke a couple of holes in the top and bake until pastry is golden brown.
7. skip out the pastry and just enjoy as a rich hearty stew.