Mushroom Beef Bundles

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Serving individual packages to your guests makes dinner extra special. They get to open their own “present” at the table. Filled with juicy mushrooms and tender steak, this makeahead main will become an easy favourite.

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Ingredients

  • 2 strip-loin steaks, about 1 lb (500 g) total
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper
  • 2 tbsp (25 mL) canola oil
  • 1 lb (500 g) cremini mushrooms, quartered
  • 1 onion, chopped, or leek, white and light green
  • part only, thinly sliced
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tsp (5 mL) dried Italian herb seasoning
  • or herbes de Provence
  • 1 tbsp (15 mL) Worcestershire sauce
  • 1/4 cup (50 mL) chopped fresh Italian parsley
  • 1 pkg (450 g) frozen butter puff pastry sheets
  • 1 egg, lightly beaten

Preparation

Step 1

1. Trim visible fat from steaks and discard. Cut steak into ½-inch (1-cm) pieces and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

2. Heat 1 tbsp (15 mL) of the oil over mediumhigh heat in large nonstick skillet, and brown the steak. Remove to plate.

3 Return skillet to medium-high heat and add remaining oil. Cook mushrooms, onion, garlic and Italian herb seasoning, stirring for about 10 minutes or until golden and liquid has evaporated.

4. Add beef, discarding any accumulated juices, and Worcestershire sauce and cook for 1 minute. Stir in parsley until combined. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Let cool to room temperature.

5. Preheat oven to 425°F (220°C).

6. Unroll puff pastry and cut each sheet in half on the diagonal to make 4 triangles. Divide mixture evenly on centre of each triangle. Brush edges with some of the egg. Bring 2 of the corners to centre to meet last corner and form a square. Pinch seams to seal. Repeat with remaining bundles. Carefully transfer, seam-side down, to parchment-paper-lined baking sheet.

7. Brush each bundle with egg and bake in centre for about 25 minutes or until golden brown. Serve with Sautéed Red Swiss Chard (recipe below).

Mushroom Beef Roll-Ups: Cut each pastry sheet in half and place fi lling lengthwise along centre. Fold short ends in and roll up, pinching seam to seal.


Serves 4

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