Beef Wellington

By fsilver4

My family loves this for Christmas dinner. I make this with a mushroom sherry sauce, I call hunter sauce.

Ingredients

• 4 6oz portions of filet mignon
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 4 chopped shallots
• 1/2 pounds mushrooms, finely chopped ( 2 cups)
• 1/4 cup burgundy wine
• 2 frozen pastry sheets
• 1 egg yolk mixed with water for egg wash
• Any packaged brown gravy
• 1/4 cup sherry

Preparation

Step 1

Season meat with salt and pepper. In a heavy pan, quickly sear the fillet on all sides. Remove from pan and set aside. Turn heat to low: Add butter, shallots and mushrooms to pan. Cook until deep brown, deglaze with red wine and reduce almost completely. Spread mixture on top of meat and then wrap with pastry. Place on a cookie sheet and then brush with egg wash. Bake in 450 oven for 15 minutes.