The Art of Food

If you’ve ever had beef wellington, you know that it is one of the more delicious dishes that uses all the “common” ingredients of a typical kitchen.  Jamie Oliver’s Beef Wellington goes above and beyond.  Whenever I make it, everyone who eats it can’t get enough.  Try it and you won’t be disappointed.  :)

Ground Beef Wellington (by Jamie Oliver, Food Revolution pg. 156)

Ingredients:

• 1 medium onion
• 1 carrot
• 1 celery stalk
• 1 potato
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 portobello mushrooms
• olive oil
• 4 sprigs of fresh rosemary (modified: I only use 2)
• a big handful of frozen peas
• 1 large egg
• 1 pound ground beef
• sea salt and pepper
• all-purpose flour
• 2 sheets puff pastry (Modified: I only use 1)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. Peel/chop onion, carrot, celery, and potato into 1/4-inch dices
3. finely grate garlic
4. Clean and roughly chop mushrooms, about the same size of other veggies
5. Put all veggies into large frying pan on medium low heat with 2 lugs of olive oil
6. Pick rosemary leaves, finely chop, and add to pan.
7. Fry and stir for 8 mins, until veggies are lightly colored
8. Add frozen peas and cook for another minute
9. Put vegetable mixture into a large bowl to cool completely (Tip: I usually put this bowl into the fridge to speed it up a bit)
10. Crack the egg into a cup and beat it up
11. Add ground beef to the veggie mixture with a good pinch of salt and pepper and half the beaten egg
12. Using your hands, scrunch and mix well.

Assembling:

1. Lightly dust a clean work surface
2. Roll out the pastry into a 12x16 rectangle, don’t overwork the dough
3. Place ground beef mixture along the edge, lengthwise
4. Mold into an even, long sausage shape
5. Brush edges of pastry with a little beaten egg
6. Roll the ground beef up in the pastry until you have a Christmas cracker
7. Squeeze ends together and brush the remaining egg all over the Wellington
8. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour

Serve:

• Slice it up
• Serve with Cherry Tomato, Caper, and Balsamic Sauce
• Enjoy!!  :D