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🍽️ Crispy Beef Fillet in Puff Pastry

570 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1.5 kg beef fillet
• 1 tbsp porcini powder
• 1 tbsp butter
• 2 tbsp sunflower oil
• 2 pack puff pastry (frozen)
• salt
• pepper (from the mill)
• 1 egg white
• 2 egg yolks

Instructions

1. 1. Rinse the meat under cold water.
2. 2. Pat the fillet completely dry with a kitchen towel.
3. 3. Season the meat generously with salt and pepper.
4. 4. Heat the sunflower oil in a pan.
5. 5. Sear the fillet on all sides.
6. 6. Cook the meat for a total of 10 minutes.
7. 7. Remove the fillet from the pan.
8. 8. Let the meat cool down completely.
9. 9. Let the puff pastry sheets thaw at room temperature.
10. 10. Set aside a small piece of pastry for decoration.
11. 11. Stack the remaining pastry sheets.
12. 12. Roll out the pastry into a large rectangle.
13. 13. The rectangle should measure 40 x 50 centimeters.
14. 14. Melt the butter over very low heat in a pot.
15. 15. Lightly sauté the porcini powder in the butter.
16. 16. Sauté the mushroom powder for 1 to 2 minutes.
17. 17. Place the cooled fillet on the rolled-out pastry.
18. 18. Brush the fillet all around with the mushroom butter.
19. 19. Season the fillet again generously with pepper.
20. 20. Fold the narrow pastry edge over the fillet.
21. 21. Fold the two wide sides of the pastry over the meat.
22. 22. Whisk the egg white in a small bowl.
23. 23. Brush the pastry with the beaten egg white.
24. 24. Pull the long pastry end over the fillet.
25. 25. Roll out the remaining pastry sheet.
26. 26. Cut out decorations from the pastry or cut them out.
27. 27. Decorate the surface of the fillet with the pastry pieces.
28. 28. Brush the surface with a little egg yolk.
29. 29. Prick the pastry several times with a fork.
30. 30. Rinse a baking sheet with cold water.
31. 31. Place the pastry on the wiped baking sheet.
32. 32. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees convection.
33. 33. Bake the fillet for about 35 minutes.
34. 34. Turn off the oven after baking.
35. 35. Let the fillet rest in the oven for another 10 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 570
• Protein: 44 g · Fett/Fat: 35 g · Carbs: 20 g