My steak pie filling is missing something.

[Fluffycloudland77]

It's steak, salt, pepper, onion and a tb spoon ketchup.

It doesn't taste quite right somehow. I have allergies so using a stock cube is out.

Should I add some chopped celery or mushroom?.

Salt?
Sometimes it seems like recipes need more stuff, when what they need is salt.

Obvs you mentioned salt but I mean more salt!

What are you allergic to? What about the gel stock melt things?

Worcestershire sauce and a knorr beef stock cube.

It's got salt, I've found the way to make food taste like processed is to add enough salt to give a small horse a stroke

Allergies to monosodium glutamate, cows milk, sulphites which are in dried onions, cornstarch, maltodextrin, wine.....

I found a MSG free stock cube but it had maltodextrin in it.

Hence making it and not just slinging a fray bentos in the trolley

What in stock cubes are you allergic to?

Red wine.

Lee & Perrins

Herbs such as thyme, bay leaf

Garlic

Black pepper

Worcester sauce and a big tablespoon of bistro best gravy powder. No to the veg. You can’t put veg in a steak pie

Sausages! Okay I realise this is a west of Scotland thing and horrifies everyone else.

Agree brown or Worcester sauce may help.

I'm palm oil free too. Because orangutans.

Mmm sausages in steak pie is the best!

Worcester sauce is my go to "needs something else"

Stilton! Yum!!!

I love chestnut mushrooms in steak pie.

Lucked, I live on the West coast too and nearly suggested sausages, but thought that's a bit weird if you've not been brought up with it.

Finely chopped mushrooms, a splash of wine, some crushed, lightly fried garlic and some worcestershire sauce.

What about those pouches of ready made stock?

Stilton

Arm The maltodextrin & cornstarch. It's usually made from high fructose corn syrup, which is heavily sulphited. I'm ok with maltodextrin if it's from potato starch.

Dh will be going out soon, shall I tell him to buy thyme? I only sprayed the bay trees recently, not sure they're edible yet.

Kidneys

Mustard?

Can you have marmite? That usually works

Crumble a bit of black pudding in.

I was going to buy kidney, probably will next time. I sliced mushrooms up and it worked well.

Just got to make suet pastry now. Not really steak pudding weather now though.

mixed herbs.thyme basil.worsestire sauce.bisto gravy granules or the powder is better.
do the onions in butter first to caramelise properly with some carrots and celery too.mushrooms cant hep lovely boost of flavour
coat the steak in flour first.
tom puree.