Christmas beef wellington | MummyPages.ie

Ingredients

• 900g piece beef fillet of even thickness (from the centre cut)
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• English mustard, to brush meat
• Mushroom duxelles:
• 700g chestnut mushrooms, cleaned and stalks removed
• handful of cooked chestnuts
• 1 garlic clove, peeled and chopped
• 2 thyme sprigs, leaves only
• To assemble:
• 8 slices of Parma ham
• 500g ready-made all-butter puff pastry
• plain flour, to dust
• 2 egg yolks, lightly beaten with 1 tbsp water (eggwash)