Recipe Steak and Stilton Filo Parcels

[epicuric]

Steak and Stilton Filo Parcels

Ingredients (to serve 2)
2 thick pieces of fillet steak (mid to end of fillet)
6 sheets of ready made filo pastry
50g Stilton cheese (or other hard, blue cheese)
4 thin slices of Parma ham
A dozen or so dried porcini mushrooms
Yolk of one egg for egg wash.
Oil for frying

Method

1. Reconstitute the mushrooms in hot water. Drain and rest.
2. Coat the steak in oil and season with salt & pepper. Drop it onto a very hot cast iron skillet for a few seconds, then turn. The object is to brown and seal the steak, but not to cook it. When browned on all sides remove from pan and rest, covered in foil.
3. On a clean, dry, floured surface, place a sheet of filo pastry. Lightly brush the upper side with oil or melted butter. Repeat with two further sheets.
4. Lay the Parma ham out in the centre of the top sheet of filo. Spoon half of the mushrooms into the centre, then place one of the steaks on top. Cut the Stilton cheese in half, and place one half (in a single piece) on top of the steak. Gather up the edges of the Parma ham to encase the steak and Stilton. Repeat with the filo pastry to fully enclose in a parcel, using egg wash to seal and coat the pastry.
5. Repeat with the second portion.
6. Bake in a hot oven (190 deg C fan) for 15 – 20 mins until the pastry is golden brown. Rest for 5 mins then serve.

 

[Karen W]

Kind of like a Cheese-y Beef Wellington. I like it!

 

[medtran49]

Kind of like a Cheese-y Beef Wellington. I like it!

That's exactly what I said to Craig!

 

[epicuric]

It did accidentally morph into a Beef Wellington. I wasn't sure to what extent meat and cheese juices would soak into the filo, and we had some Parma ham in the fridge. Problem solved. The mushrooms were a natural progression from this.