Venison Wellington and Beetroot Gratin
Credited to: Jordan Senior
Kcal: 1237.0
Serves 4
45 mins cooking time
Ingredients
- 300g (10½oz) gluten free flour (mix)*
- Pinch salt & pepper
- 200ml (7fl oz) water
- 250g (9oz) lard/butter (for puff pastry), plus large knob for duxelle
- 1 venison fillet
- 8 carrots
- 8 parsnips
- 10 beetroots
- 250ml (9fl oz) cream
- 4 cloves garlic
- 250g (9oz) wild mushrooms
- 2 shallots
- 2 sprigs rosemary
- 2 sprigs thyme
- 2 tbsp (30ml) honey
- 300g (10½oz) cherries
- 50g (1½oz) bitter chocolate*
- 600ml (21fl oz) veal stock*
- 50ml (2fl oz) red wine
Notes: *Please check our Food and Drink Information for suitable products.
Method
- Place all dry ingredients in a mixer add water to bring together
- Divide the loose dough into two portions and roll into two balls
- Pat each ball into a rectangle and spread softened butter onto one rectangle
- Cover the buttered rectangle with the second one and wrap in cling film
- Put pastry into the fridge for 1 hour
- Take the pastry out of the fridge and roll the sandwiched dough until it is a third bigger
- Fold the pastry in half, and half again until you have done seven turns in total
- Make the duxelle by frying wild mushrooms in butter with the shallots and garlic softened
- Seal the vension fillet in a pan but don't cook it through
- Roll the fillet in the duxelle and into the rolled out pastry
- Cut off excess and allow to rest for 20 minutes
- Prepare the gratin by infusing cream with garlic and thyme for 10 mins before sieving
- Very thinly slice the beetroot
- Layer the beetroot and cream to about 3cm thick in an ovenproof dish
- Prepare the roast root vegetables by placing them in a dish and spreading over seasoning, thyme, oil and a touch of honey
- Preheat the oven to 180°c
- Place the gratin in first
- Add the vegetables to the oven after 10 minutes
- Add the wellington after another 7 minutes and bake for 25 minutes until golden and cooked through (the wellington should be eggwashed before going into the oven)
- After the gratin is put into the oven begin preparing the reduction
- Reduce down the red wine and veal stock in a pan for 10 minutes on a vigorous boil
- Add the rosemary and roughly chopped cherries and reduce for further 10-15 minutes
- Finish in last 5 minutes with a running of bitter chocolate
- Plate up the above straight from the oven and spoon over the reduction
Nutritional information per serving
Kcal
1237
Fat
69.8g
Carbs
115.7g
Protein
36.9g
Fibre
13.9g