After sharing Guinness Chocolate Cake and Guinness and Beef Stew, we decided to throw another Guinness recipe your way. You don’t mind, do you? We didn’t think so.
How to Make Stout Pot Pie with Sausages
This recipe is delicious made into a pie, but you can just as easily skip the pastry and serve the sausages over mashed potatoes instead. To make the pie, brown sausages on all sides. They don’t need to be cooked all the way through, only browned. Transfer them to a plate then cook onions and carrots with garlic. When the vegetables are beginning to soften, add butter and flour to make a roux. The butter-flour mixture will help thicken our gravy. In goes beef stock and Guinness as well as the sausages from earlier and grated sharp cheddar cheese. Spoon everything into a baking dish, cover with pastry and bake until golden on top. Recipe updated, originally posted March 2012. Since posting this in 2012, we have tweaked the recipe to be more clear. – Adam and Joanne 6 bratwurst sausages 1 medium onion, sliced into 1/4-inch half moons 3 medium carrots, cut into 1/4-inch rounds 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 tablespoon butter 1 heaping tablespoon flour 1 cup beef stock 1 cup Guinness Stout beer (about 3/4 bottle) 1 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese Salt and fresh ground black pepper 1 tablespoon water or milk 1/4 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese 1 (9-inch) pie crust, see our homemade pie crust recipe 2Heat oil in a large deep pot over medium heat. Add the sausages and brown on all sides. Transfer sausages to a plate, and then add the onions and carrots to the pot. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the onions begin to soften, about 5 minutes. Stir in the garlic. 3Add the butter and flour then cook, stirring constantly for one minute until the flour has been absorbed and darkens in color. Stir in the stock and beer. Bring to a simmer then add sausages back into the pot. Simmer, uncovered, until the sausages are cooked through, about 8 minutes. 4Remove the sausages and slice into 1/2-inch rounds then add back to the pot. Stir 1 cup of cheese into the gravy. Taste for seasoning then adjust with salt and/or pepper. 2Spoon the filling into a 2-quart baking dish and brush the top and sides of baking dish with egg wash. 3Shape the pie crust so that it will cover the top of the baking dish. Top baking dish with crust. Brush the top of the crust with additional egg wash and top with the remaining 1/4 cup of cheese. Bake in the oven until the crust is golden brown on top, about 30 minutes.
