Guinness Mushroom Pot Pie

Ingredients:
xvi oz crimini mushrooms, diced
1 1/2 cups Guinness
3/4 cups chicken or vegetable stock
1 3/4 loving cup milk
1 Russet potato, peeled, diced
1/2 loving cup super fine flour (like Wondra)
1/8 loving cup dried shiitake mushrooms, chopped
2 carrots, cutting into coins
2 stalks celery, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 onion, diced
1 shallot, minced
iii tablespoons butter
3/4 loving cup coarsely chopped Italian parsley
1/2 teaspoon savory
1/4 teaspoon celery seed
1 tablespoon golden syrup
1 bay leaf
1 egg, beaten
salt
freshly terra firma dark pepper


puff pastry (if using defrosted frozen, yous volition alone need i sheet)



Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Re-hydrate the mushrooms inward hot water. Drain, die as well as laid aside. Melt the butter inward a large skillet alongside high sides, a large saucepan or a stove tumble out as well as oven prophylactic 2 quart casserole. Add the onion, garlic, shallot, celery, carrots, fresh mushrooms, as well as potatoes. Cook over depression heat, stirring occasionally, until the onion is translucent. Stir inward the flour as well as ready for i to 2 minutes. Add the milk, Guinness, golden syrup, bay leaf, as well as stock. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until the liquid reduces as well as thickens a bit, close 10-15 minutes. Fish out the bay leaf. Add the re-hydrated dried mushrooms, herbs as well as spices. Stir to evenly distribute all ingredients. Cook for 2 minutes. Divide into vi 10 oz ramekins or pour into a 2 quart casserole dish. Leaving close 1/4 to 1/2 inch headspace. Top alongside a layer of puff pastry. Pierce alongside a knife. Brush alongside egg. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until the crust is golden brownish as well as the filling is bubbly.

My thoughts:

What's improve than a pot pie for dinner on a Feb evening? It is warm, filling as well as surprisingly unproblematic if yous utilization prepared puff pastry. Just brand certain yous plow over the pastry plenty fourth dimension to thaw (at to the lowest degree overnight or longer if your refrigerator is equally mutual frigidity equally mine) as well as you'll gave dinner inward the oven inward nether xxx minutes. I've made as well as had pot pies tons of times earlier only they were generally meaty creations amount of chicken as well as occasionally beef or pheasant. I similar them a lot only I idea it mightiness hold upwards fun to brand a vegetarian pot pie for a change. I took my inspiration from traditional pot pies as well as British Guinness as well as steak pies. Similar to how I did alongside my beef, mushroom as well as barley soup, I used both fresh as well as dried mushrooms for maximum umami mushroom power. That is what gives yous plenty depth of season that fifty-fifty hardcore carnivores won't fille the meat. The balance is pretty straightforward only real tasty and satisfying  The leftovers sense of savor nifty the adjacent solar daytime too! Just allow them come upwards a niggling closer to room temperature earlier baking.