Meats Recipes -  Fillet Steak Baked in Pastry Recipe

Heat 25 g/1 oz of the butter and the oil in a frying pan. Add the onions and garlic and fry over a low heat until soft. Add the mushrooms and nutmeg, season to taste with salt and pepper and stir over a gentle heat.

Melt the remaining butter in a clean frying pan. Add the fillet steaks and then sear quickly on both sides. Remove from the pan, cool quickly and keep chilled until required.

Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface and cut into 8 rounds large enough to half cover the steaks. Brush a 2.5 cm/1 inch border around the edge of each pastry round with beaten egg.

Cut the ham into 8 rounds the same size as the steaks. Place 1 piece of ham on each of 4 pastry rounds. Cover the ham with a portion of the mushroom mixture, a fillet steak, another portion of mushrooms and another round of ham.

Top with a pastry round. Seal the edges of the pastry between your fingers and then with a fork. Cut any pastry trimmings into leaves and use to decorate.

Brush with beaten egg and cook in a preheated oven, 220°C (425°F), Gas Mark 7, for 20 minutes until golden brown. Garnish with chervil or parsley sprigs.