Beef Wellington Recipe - An Easy Beef Wellington That Anyone Can Cook!

For this particular beef Wellington recipe you will need:

2 large mushrooms
2 cloves of garlic
2 good quality potatoes
1 chopped stick celery
1 or 2 carrots
1 onion preferably Spanish
100 grams frozen garden peas
1 egg (I like free range)
Rosemary
Half a kilo mince beef
Plain flour
Half a kilo puff pastry
Salt and Pepper

Turn the oven on to preheat while we prepare the dish. Now we chop all the veggies, carrot, celery, potatoes and onion into small squares. Chop the garlic cloves really, really small. Wash the mushrooms thoroughly (as they usually have earth stuck under the umbrella) and chop them. Mmmm, I'm already tasting the dish!

Place all this ingredients in a pan with a bit of oil (extra virgin olive oil is perfect for this!) and toss. Sprinkle a bit of rosemary on top, it will add an exquisite extra flavor to the beef (sometimes I also add thyme, that depends on your personal taste, and if I'm feeling really cheeky I also add a bit of tarragon!). But lets leave it with the just the rosemary for this time! Stir all the ingredients in the frying pan for around five to ten minutes. The vegetalbles should soften and become a bit more transparent. After this time add the peas (which by the way cook realy well when frozen) and toss for another couple of minutes.

Place the vegetables in a bowl and set it apart as we have to let it cool down. Beat the egg up, we are going to use only half of it for the time being. Now is the time when we add the mice to the bowl where we have the veggies with a nice bit lf salt and pepper (al gusto) and the half of that egg. WE are bgoing to use our hands now to mix everything really well.

No, no, don't be put off by this. It is a lot easier than what it seems, believe me. And, anyway, if this is your first time, well, you will need to make this dish several times as all good things come with practice! So lets get cracking.

This is the fun bit, really. Your children could help you and also learn the beauty of cooking with homemade pastry! Mind you, you will probably end up with a messy kitchen, but, hey, you'll also end up with a fantastic beef Wellington for your family!

So, clean out the surface you usually work on in the kitchen and dust it (dust your rolling pin also). Take the pastry out of the package (it should have been in the fridge for a while, it makes it easier to work with) and roll it out nicely with the rolling pin until is the shape of a kitchen paper towel. Do not forget to keep dusting with flour all the time, it helps the process. Now is the time to place the mixture of beef, vegetables and egg along the edge of the puff pastry. Slowly -but surely!- shape it into what should eventually look like a long fat sausage (which is really what beef Wellington is, really!). Remember he other half of the egg? We are going to use it to brush the edges of the big fat sausage. Squeeze any rest of the beef inside the rolled pastry and press the ends together tightly. There. The big fat sausage. Yum.

Take a baking tray and dust some of the plain flour on top. Place your lovely ready to be cooked beef Wellington on top. Don't forget to brush the rest of the sausage cover with the reat of the egg, it will add a lovely shine when it comes out of the oven. Now, cooking time is easy. Take it out of the oven when the crust is light orange! We already cooked the meat, remember? So its really just a matter of cooking the pastry!

The smells will be killing you right now! Your beef Wellington is cooked and it looks absolutely wonderful. Well, I did say to you this was an individual beef Wellington recipe, so all we have to do now is slice the Wellington up and make individual portions out of it. I personally love it with mash potatoes, but if you find it to stogy serve it up with nice boiled cabbage, carrots and sprouts or green beans. Pour a bit of gravy on top and... Voila! Easy recipe for beef Wellington!