Dh's favourite dinner!
Not a recipe as such but this is how I have evolved it over the years.
Ingredients one or two packs of steak/beef cubes and a pack of lambs kidneys. One onion ,flour, salt and pepper, water,bovril.One packet of ready made pasrtry.
In waitrose you can get a pack of fresh steak and kidney in the meat aisle. In the other supermarkets I have to buy the kidney seperately. You only use the outside of the kidney so just discard the inner , tough core.
Roll both types of meat in seasoned flour. I use wholemeal four with salt and pepper sprinkled all over it. Put the floured meat straight into an oven proof dish. Over each layer of meat sprinkle a little bit of finely chopped raw onion.
In a jug mix boiling water with two or three big spoons of bovril.Pour bovril water over meat.Enough to come up to the top of the meat.
Cover dish with lid or tight fitting foil if dish doesnt have as lid.
Put in oven on 200c for 25mins ,then turn down to 150c and keep cooking for 3 hours. Have a peak after two hours and add a drop more water if it seems very dry , but you do want the gravy to be nice and thick so go steady.
Half an hour before the end remove the lid and cover with bought shortcrust pastry ,or puff pasrty if you prefer.
I used to do all that browning the meat first but really you dont need to for something like this.Also find bought pastry is way better than my own. But my s&k pie is vastly superior to any that I have bought!
Yummy!