Name: Braised Beef & Ale Pie
Ingredients: salt and pepper; 1 kg stewing steak (with a little fat); 1 tbsp vegetable oil; 300 ml ale (we use Black Isle Brewery Porter but any dark ale will work); 1 tbsp light brown sugar; 1 tbsp brown sauce; 1 tbsp tomato purée; 1 vegetable stock cube; 1 small onion, roughly chopped; 3 garlic cloves, crushed

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bad Girl Bakery

By Jeni Iannetta

Published 2021

About

This is perfect winter comfort food, the kind of thing you might make on a rainy Sunday. The recipe started life as Darren’s Braised Beef Pie, which was amazing as it was, but I was keen to incorporate an ale from our friends at Black Isle Brewery, so we tweaked it and added their Porter and this recipe was born. It’s packed with meat (there’s no veg to bulk it out) and it is rich, hearty and filling.