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Beef Wellington

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filet steak with pâté and duxelles in puff pastry

Key facts

Course
Main
Serving temperature
Hot
Main ingredients
Beef, shortcrust pastry, duxelles

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Encyclopedic overview

Beef Wellington, whole Beef Wellington is a baked dish made of beef tenderloin and duxelles wrapped in shortcrust pastry. Some recipes include wrapping the contents in prosciutto, or dry-cured ham, which helps retain moisture while preventing the pastry from becoming soggy; use of puff pastry; or coating the beef in mustard. Classical recipes may include pâté.

A whole tenderloin may be wrapped and baked, and then sliced for serving, or the tenderloin may be sliced into individual portions before wrapping and baking.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Beef Wellington” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.