What is Steak & Kidney Pie?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_and_kidney_pie that is a link to the "definition" of it. It is a British dish.

Here is a recipe:

STEAK & KIDNEY PIE

2 lb. bottom round or chuck steak, cut into slices 1" to 1 1/2" thick

1 lb. veal or 1/2 lb. lamb kidneys

1/2 lb. mushrooms

1/4 c. flour

Butter or oil

Salt & freshly ground pepper

3/4 lb. onion, cut into 1/2" cubes

1/2 tsp. minced garlic

6 c. beef broth

3 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce

1 tbsp. Louisiana Red Hot Sauce (not Tabasco)

1 tbsp. tomato paste

1/4 tsp. dried thyme

Pie pastry

1. Cut steak into 1" to 1 1/2" squares.

2. Trim away and discard the white tough core and sinews from the kidneys and cut into 1/2" cubes.

3. Coat the steak and kidney separately with seasoned flour. Toss well to blend. Shake off excess.

4. Cut the mushrooms into quarters or slices or leave whole, depending on size.

5. Heat the butter or oil in a heavy skillet and lightly brown the steak. Put on only a few pieces at a time to insure they are sealed on all sides. Remove, then brown the kidney. Place steak and kidney in warm dish.

6. Saute the onion until wilted. Add mushrooms and garlic until mushrooms start to brown. Remove to a 4 or 5 quart cooking pot over low medium heat and add tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce and thyme.

7. Slowly add sufficient stock, stirring all the time, until it becomes a gravy. Add seasoned flour if needed. Bring to a boil and cook about 5 minutes.

8. Season to taste and place steak and kidney in the cooking pot and add additional stock so that the meat is almost covered. Cover with lid, place in 300 degree oven and bake about 1 1/2 hours or until steak is thoroughly tender. If the liquid level drops, add more beef stock. Cool and refrigerate overnight.

9. Spoon meat and sauce into an 8-cup baking pan (oval dish measuring 13"x8"x2" is ideal). The pie should have plenty of gravy and not become dry. Brush around outside edge of baking dish with beaten egg. Cover with pie crust. Decorate with pastry cut outs. Cut hole 1" or smaller in the center of the pastry and a few slashes to allow steam to escape. Brush with a little beaten egg. Set dish on a flat pan and place in oven. Bake at 425 degrees for 40 minutes for a large single dish or 32 minutes for small individual oval dishes.

10. Pie Pastry: 2 cups flour, 2/3 cup Crisco, salt to taste and 4 to 5 tablespoons ice water. Put flour and salt in mixing bowl. Add Crisco and cut it in with 2 knives or pastry blender until mixture looks like coarse cornmeal. Using fork, start tossing mixture while adding water. Add just enough water until dough holds together. Shape dough into ball. Wrap in waxed paper and chill overnight or for at least 12 hours. Roll as needed.

Kidney Pie

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Yes, steak and kidney pie really has kidneys in it. It is also my all-time favourite meal. The beefsteak and kidneys are chopped in to bite-sized pieces and stewed. They are then placed in a pie dish and covered with usually puff - but occasionally shortcrust - pastry and baked.

Attached is a link to fantastic recipe for such a pie - which includes red wine gravy!

The steak and kidney pie is a typical British dish with a filling of diced beef steak and beef (ox), lamb's or pig's kidneys in a thick sauce. It is often, but not always, a one-crust pie, which means that the filling is covered but not completely enclosed by the pastry.

Besides being made fresh in a kitchen or a restaurant, food processing firms offer this foodstuff frozen in a box, or canned (in a tin). Large cans even come in the size and shape of regular pie pans.

The sauce typically consists of beef broth, flavoured with salt, pepper and parsley, onions, and thickened with flour, cornstarch or beurre manié. Two-crust steak and kidney pies are best made with hot water crust pastry, which is less likely to get soaked in sauce, but one-crust pies may also be made with puff pastry or shortcrust pastry.

Steak and kidney pudding is a similar dish in which the contents are placed into a pudding dish lined and covered with suet pastry. The pudding is then steamed for several hours.

In the British Armed Forces a pudding is sometimes called a "Baby's Head" and in certain areas of North West England primarily around Wigan and Leigh, Lancashire a "Babby's Yead" (Baby's Head).

Steak and kidney pie/pudding is also sometimes colloquially known as 'Kate and Sidney pie/pudding', 'Snake and Kiddy pie/pudding' or 'Snake and Pygmy pie/pudding'.

I LOVE steak and kidney pie!!

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It is just what it says, a pie made with steak and kidney chunks. Very U.K. and quite good.

yes it does, but if you don't like eating kidney, you can use mushrooms instead. then of course it's called steak and mushroom pie....