This Is How You Cook The Perfect Beef Wellington

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Recipe

Ingredients

1.2kg Beef fillet, centre cut
Dijon mustard
100g prosciutto
350g puff pasty
2 eggs for egg wash
Mushroom duxelle
2 crepes

Mushroom duxelle

600g mushrooms
60g butter
4 shallots (1 brown onion if you can't find shallots)
6-8 thyme sprigs
50ml whiskey
30ml olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste

Crepes

50g flower
130ml milk
1 egg

Method

1. Start by making your mushroom duxelle. Finely dice the shallots and cook them with the butter and olive oil (you don’t want any colour on the shallots).
2. Next, finely dice your mushrooms either by hand or in a food processor, being careful not to make it mushroom purée.
3. Once your shallots are translucent and cooked, add the mushrooms and thyme, season with salt and pepper and cook for 20 minutes or until the mushrooms are nice and dry.
4. Add your whiskey and continue to cook until the whiskey has evaporated. Remove the mushrooms from the pan and sit in the fridge to cool.
5. Next, mix your crêpe batter until it's nice and smooth and rest for 15 minutes. Then cook your crêpes on a medium heat, try not to get much colour on them.
6. Next, set a cast iron or heavy pan that retains its heat on the stove to heat up. While that's heating up, cover your beef fillet with grape oil and season with salt all over.
7. Seal the beef fillet on all sides in the screaming hot pan including the ends, this should take 1-2 minutes each side.
8. Remove the beef from the pan and brush it with the Dijon mustard while it’s still hot.
9. To assemble, lay your crepes flat on a piece of plastic wrap followed by the prosciutto and finally the mushroom duxelle.
10. Next, place the beef in the centre and roll the crêpes completely around the beef, covering the entire Wellington in plastic wrap. Place in the fridge for an hour to set.
11. Roll out your puff pastry and place your Wellington in the centre. Roll it tightly, trying not to have too much overlap at the seam.
12. Wrap this again in plastic wrap and sit in the fridge for an hour or freezer for 30 minutes for the pastry to set.
13. Remove from the plastic and brush with egg wash all over. Place the Wellington on an oven tray with the seam on the bottom.
14. At this point you can add your optional pastry lattice if you wish.
15. Season with flaky sea salt and bake in a 190° oven for 30-40 minutes or until your pastry is golden and the internal temp of the beef is 46°.
16. Enjoy with a side of mash, red wine sauce and some sautéed green beans, whatever takes your fancy.