Greggs publish details of its steak bake recipe - here's how to make it at home

[Chippy_Tea]

Bakery chain Greggs has unveiled the recipe for its iconic steak bake - allowing foodie fans to make them at home during lockdown.

Along with other high street businesses across the UK, Greggs was forced to close its doors last month due to government lockdown measures, which left customers unable to purchase their favourite snacks.

Now, Greggs has released its surprisingly simple recipes and DIY tutorials for both the iconic steak bake and the chicken bake, as well as its sausage, cheese and bean melt, for customers to try at home.


How to make the Steak Bake
To make the steak bake, you’ll need:

• Finely diced beef
• Beef stock
• Cornflour mixed with water
• Puff pastry
• One egg

Instructions for the filling mix:

• Sizzle the beef in a frying pan until browned
• Pour the beef stock into the pan before adding the cornflour mix
• Allow the mix to thicken to your tastes and leave to cool

Instructions for the pastry:

• Cut two pieces of pastry, into squares measuring 180mm x 94 mm to be precise
• Egg wash the edges

Instructions for the steak bake:

• Spoon your filling onto one of the sheets of pastry
• Place the other sheet on top
• Fork the edges of the sheets to lock them in place
• Score the top with 6 lines
• Place the uncooked pastry into the oven at 200C, or until golden brown and piping hot

 

[MyQul]

The question is, why?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Because they don't want us to find something better and never go back.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I am no baker but those instructions seem a bit lacking in detail if i followed them i wouldn't end up with something like the pies in the picture.

 

[MyQul]

Because they don't want us to find something better and never go back.

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[Chippy_Tea]

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Being an old cynic i would say so.

 

[nixhaz]

Seriously I reckon you'd be better off stuffing it with Pedigree Chum! That meat'll be as tough as old boots!

 

[MyQul]

Being an old cynic i would say so.

Like you say, they dont want us to forget them whenever the lockdown eases off

 

[Rodcx500z]

Having worked in baking for 30 years i can say 100% that is not how Greggs make a steak bake, no i didn't work for them

 

[PhilBrew]

Hmmmm ... Mums will take one look at those instructions, and get themselves down to Iceland ...
https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/greggs-steak-bakes-280g/66330.html
Cheers, PhilB

 

[An Ankoù]

Seriously I reckon you'd be better off stuffing it with Pedigree Chum! That meat'll be as tough as old boots!

Enriched with marrowbone jelly?

 

[Rodcx500z]

The filling will be cooked in a quavac pressure vessel or similar in large batches, the pastry will be laminated the process will be finished on an automated rondo or similar maybe 8 lanes wide into a blast chiller then deep freeze then sold as a fresh baked slice, baked fresh on the day

 

[MyQul]

The filling will be cooked in a quavac pressure vessel or similar in large batches, the pastry will be laminated the process will be finished on an automated rondo or similar maybe 8 lanes wide into a blast chiller then deep freeze then sold as a fresh baked slice, baked fresh on the day

So not lovingly handcooked by artisanal mermaids in woodfired elven ovens then?

 

[Rodcx500z]

Probaly baked in a tom chandly

 

[Rodcx500z]

Their process is bang on a 3 hour window, they bake keep it at 63c in warmers anything left at 3 hours goes in the bin

 

[Nicks90]

Oh i love a good steak bake from gregs. But as i work from home or work at the customers head office miles from a gregs, its a naughty i rarely get to have,
However their recipe is nowhere near what they actually do - my wife used to be a food product development manager for a 'meat company' that did amongst other things -pies. It would boggle most peoples minds the automation and science thats behind mass baking such simple products.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I get Greggs pies from Iceland -

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