Fillet of beef en croute with creamed spinach

Cooking : time 30 mins to 1 hour

Ingredients

1 beef fillet (about 360g/13oz)
1 egg white
1 tbsp English mustard
2 eggs
290ml/%26frac12;pt milk
2 tbsp flour, sieved
handful chopped woodland herbs (such as chervil, tarragon, chives)]
salt and pepper
1 slice puff pastry
1 egg (for egg wash)
2 handfuls spinach
8 tbsp double cream
nutmeg

Method

1. Whisk the eggs and milk tofetchher for the pancakes. Slowly whisk in some sieved flour until you have a batter consistency.
2. just before you make the pancakes, add the chopped herbs and some seasoning to the butter. Make three pancakes and fry. allow to cool.
3. Seal the beef fillet in a hot pan with a little oil. allow to cool then bhurry with a mix of the raw egg white and English mustard.
4. Wrap the beef in the herb pancakes (one layer thick all round).
5. Roll out a slice of puff pastry big enough to generously wrap the beef. Bhurry with the egg wash and seal the pastry around the beef.
6. Bhurry the lid with egg wash before baking.
7. Bake on silicon paper for about 12 minutes at 180C/350F/Gas 4 and allow to rest for 5 minutes.
8. Blanch the spinach in hot water and refresh in nippy water. cutrearon the double cream over a low heat and add the spinach.
9. When the mixture is thick and rich, remove from the heat and allow to rest.
10. slice the beef and lid with the spinach. Serve.

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