How can I make a steak pie tastier?

[LovingCountryLife]

Hello.. made a steak pie last night as a tester for Christmas Eve dinner tonight. Added some Guiness. DH said it was quite nice but needed something extra to be amazing. What might that extra be?! Would red wine be better than Guiness? I added tomato purée to the steak as well as a beef stock cube crumbled straight in. I also added some onions. I’m a veggie so can’t taste the meat which doesn’t help 🤪 I made a beef stew a while back and that was bland too. Maybe I should stick to chicken 🤔

Toss beef in seasoned flour, brown in shallow pan with olive oil.
Chopped onion , browned beef, squirt tomato puree, teaspoon yellow mustard, red wine stock pot and beef stock pot, can / bottle of Guinness or any dark beer, salt, pepper and crumbled oxo cube into slow cooker and cook on low for 6 hrs

spoonful of marmite, splash of Worcester and sliced celery

Some mustard powder also helps

For beef I add a dab of Bovril, English mustard (both are salty), a pinch of cinnamon and a splash of red wine.

Blue cheese!

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/steak-blue-cheese-pie

Salt content is really important, and also try bone marrow (push it out of a bone or go for the visual wow factor of a big bone sticking out of the pie gastro pub style, and during cooking the marrow will melt off of the bone into the filling). Ask your butcher for some good bones.

If you can soak the meat in some wine the night before it helps the flavour develop.