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August 12, 2011
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Individual Beef Wellingtons

Hearty Meat Dishes
Prep time:
28 minutes
baking time:
18 minutes

When the boss was coming to dinner, Grandpa always requested Individual Beef Wellingtons.

When the boss was coming to dinner, Grandpa always requested Individual Beef Wellingtons.

Ingredients

Serves 4 

  • 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. 1

    Preheat the oven to 425ºF.

  2. 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. 3

    Melt remaining butter in a large skillet. Cook steaks in hot butter until browned, about 2 minutes per side.

  4. 4

    Cut the pastry into four triangles. For each pastry triangle, spoon one-fourth of mushroom mixture onto pastry, then top with steak.

  5. 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.

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Grandma's Secret Tips!

Grandma's Secret Tips!

To save a little cleanup time, Grandma sometimes omitted browning the meat first. She just wrapped the meat in the dough and baked it at 400°F for 15 minutes. The steak was medium rare, but it continued to cook after it was removed from the oven.

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