Filet De Boeuf En Croute

Submitted by Wildflour

"(Filet Mignon in Puff Pastry) I prefer not to eat out on Valentine's Day, hate fighting the crowds, the noise, the usually bad service because the restaurant is jam packed, the expense...could I have a little cheese with my "whine"? LOL! Here's what I made for the main course last year, and it was to DIE for. Almost too pretty to eat....almost! Enjoy!!! *Prep-time does not include chilling time."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 2

ingredients

• 2 nice-sized thick filet mignon steaks, 2 inches thick at least
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
• fresh coarse ground black pepper
• 1⁄2 teaspoon minced garlic (optional if you don't like garlic) (optional)
• 2 2 slices swiss cheese or 2 slices monterey jack cheese, thick
• 1 sheet puff pastry, rolled out just a little bit
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon olive oil

• Creamy horseradish sauce

• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 -2 tablespoon horseradish, to your preference, and not the the cream style, the real deal
• 1⁄4 teaspoon Dijon mustard (optional)

directions

1. Trim any fat from the steaks, sprinkle with pepper, spread tops of each with 1 Tbl butter.
2. In shallow roasting pan, bake in pre-heated oven, buttered side up, at 425º for 10 minutes.
3. Place in fridge til cold.
4. Roll out puff pastry a little and cut in half.
5. Spread steaks with garlic, top with cheese.
6. Place cheese side down onto center of pastry squares, fold pastry over, moisten edges and seal well.
7. Place seam-side down onto baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
8. Prick top with a fork, cover with plastic wrap, and re-chill for 1 hour.
9. Beat egg with oil, and brush pastry with it.
10. Bake in center of pre-heated 425º oven for 25 minutes for med-rare.
11. Serve with horseradish sauce if desired.
12. Serves 2.

Reviews

[TexasBlonde]

update on my previous review - I had a couple of these left over (can you believe it?) from my party, since they were large some people shared. So I put them in Ziploc's in the freezer. Today I popped one out and after about 35 min at 350, 95% as good as the first time! Long story short, these freeze surprisingly well.

 

[GibbyLou]

This is scrumptious and the lads thought it was well worth the wait. Doubled the recipe and made for our New Year's Eve dinner. Used swiss cheese as that's what I had on hand. Did not use the dijon mustard in the sauce. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Wobin]

Made this for our first Valentines as a married couple. This was wonderful. I was even amazed that I could make something this good. Very simple as well. I served with Recipe #72861. I did not use the horseradish sauce because I did not have horseradish. It was wonderful and moist without it. I also used Mozerella cheese because its all I had on hand. This was amazing. I am definetly going to make for guests sometimes to show off :) thank you!

 

[nktx54]

Loved it!!!! A definite for Valentine's, Anniversary...or hoping for a proposal dinner. I love garlic, but didn't mince mine finely enough. My future technique shall be....smash, then mince the garlic.

 

[beckygirl]

This was really really amazing! I made it for my parents for thier anniversary, and it ended up working out beautifully. I ran out of puff pastry, a shortsighting on my part, so I ended up wrapping one steak in frozen pie crust and it worked fairly well...the flaky buttery texture of puff pastry is preffered, but in a pinch the frozen pie crust worked well. Also because of the high price of food I ended up using thick flatiron steaks, and they cooked perfectly with the times listed here. Fabulous! will use again.