What to serve with beef wellington?

[Mimi1977]

What side dishes would you do? Roast pots and other veg? And what about gravy - do you need any??

I like new pots and green beans. I would do gravy as well, when you brown the meat, use the juices from the pan to make the gravy.

You would need a sauce/gravy unless you do dauphinoise potatoes in which case you shouldnt need a sauce as well.

defo gravy (but am a gravy fiend anyway) - it will help with the pastry. Fine green beans were my first thought, perhaps thin-sliced carrots as well.

I would also do mushrooms in a garlic butter sauce but that's because it's one of my favourite side dishes with beef of any kind.

Potatoes: I think I would have sautéed rather than big roasties - there is enough carb in the pastry, so keeping the pots on the lighter side would be better from my POV.

carrots and beans or broc. no need for potatoes with pastry and pancake.

Spinach
Green beans
Yummy

I like pomme dauphinoise - beef wellington can be a bit dry and you need a moist potato dish to set it off.

Then wilted spinach or fine beans, or perhaps both.

There is rarely enough juice in the pan from browning to make enough gravy - in my experience. It does depend how long you fry the beef for and how dry it is to begin with, but that's what I've found.

It also seems conceptually wrong to me - gravy is supposed to be the juices given off as the joint roasts, flavoured and bulked out for sure, but primarily that. With beef wellington there aren't any juices because it all stays inside the pastry. If I wanted a sauce I'd go for something completely different.

If I were doing roasties, I would do bearnaise or hollandaise sauce, not gravy.