Individual Beef Wellingtons

Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons butter, divided
• 2 cups chopped fresh mushrooms
• 1 shallot, chopped
• 1 tablespoon sherry or chicken broth
• 4 filet mignon, about 1 inch thick
• 1 sheet refrigerated pie pastry

Directions

• 1
  Preheat the oven to 425ºF.
• 2
  Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a small skillet over medium-high heat. Cook mushrooms, shallot and sherry in hot butter until liquid is nearly absorbed, about 3 minutes.
• 3
  Melt remaining butter in a large skillet. Cook steaks in hot butter until browned, about 2 minutes per side.
• 4
  Cut the pastry into four triangles. For each pastry triangle, spoon one-fourth of mushroom mixture onto pastry, then top with steak.
• 5
  Bring up corners of pastry to enclose steak, pressing seams to seal. Arrange seam side down on a baking sheet. Bake until pastry is golden and steak is medium rare, about 8 to 10 minutes.