Beef Wellington

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This was my first time trying to make a Wellington. I have gotten a little more daring in the harder dishes. This was super easy. My butcher cut my loin down to 1.5 pounds for me since there was only five of us. Things I changed a little was when cooking the mushrooms and onions - I added about 1.4 cup of red wine for them to soak up. Let the liquid evaporate. My husband said the beef melted like butter and the wine soaked mushrooms added a little extra something something. Used Crimini's which I generally always use in cooking anyways. I also made a red wine reduction to finish the dish off. I highly recommend it.

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I love this recipe but i do it a little different. i use a piece of meat around 4 and a half lbs and cut it into 3 sections but not all the way through. i also add spinach and mozzarella cheese, and a number of spices. add that in between all of the layers and all around the outside of the meat then cover with the pastry shell. A suggestion is also to make a cream mushroom and peas sauce with it. VERY VERY tasty!

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This was a fantastic dish. The flavors of the meat with the onion, mushrooms, and pastry is excellent. It's easy for the bottom of the pastry to get soggy. I suggest cooking it on the lowest rack in your oven. I also suggest using cremini mushrooms and serving the dish with a red wine-based sauce on the side.

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That was outstanding.

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US and Canadian cuts are slightly different, so following US recipes can be a challenge to find the right cut. When we were in town our butcher had an inside round roast so that is what we used. Marinated it in a bit of red wine, garlic and pepper, then dried the beef to proceed with recipe. Saved the marinade and added beef stock to make a thin gravy to accompany, deglaced the pan used to sear the beef to add to gravy.
Cooking temp and timing allows for oven roast potaotes, cut to appropiate size.
Mushroom onion mixture can take a long time to give off moisture, suggest you make that up sooner than recipe suggests.
Was a great sucess, but glad we let it sit to rest uncovered for 15 minutes before slicing and serving.
We served a broccoli soup while it was setting up. Beef was accompanied with light gravy, roast potates, asparagus and a greens salad with a light raspberry vinegrette. Frozen yogurt with blueberries and a light chocolate commercial biscuit.
Recipe was good. I will follow it again but sear the beef, cool it, wrap it in pastry, then refrigerate the wrapped, egg washed beef till 45 minutes before cooking then cook according to recipe.

My beef... recipes that call for cups of mushrooms vs a weight.