Directions
Season the beef with salt, and pepper. Melt a tablespoon of butter having a drizzle from the essential olive oil inside a saute pan until hot, then sear the beef on every side. Remove in the pan to some board, and let awesome completely, then wrap in plastic wrap. and refrigerate.
Within the same pan because the beef, prepare the mushroom duxelles. Melt the rest of the two tablespoons butter and fry the shallots until translucent. Add some mushrooms. thyme, and bay leaf. and prepare until very tender. Pour within the Madeira. and produce to some boil, and prepare until all of the liquid has evaporated. Add some creme fraiche and prepare lower to some very thick paste. Season the mix with salt, and pepper. Stir with the chopped parsley.
Unveil one block of pastry to some rectangle big enough to suit the meat having a spacious border. Put on a baking sheet. Take away the fillet in the refrigerator, and unwrap. Spoon the mushroom mixture into the middle of the pastry and hang the meat on the top. Unveil the 2nd sheet to suit within the whole fillet generously. In a tiny bowl, beat together the egg and 1 teaspoon water. Brush the margins from the bottom pastry with egg wash. then drape the 2nd sheet over, pressing to close well. Trim the advantage to some 1-inch border. Crimp the perimeters together with your fingers. Refrigerate until prepared to bake.
Preheat the oven to 425 levels F.
Brush the entire top of the pastry with egg wash making two slits within the top having a knife to permit steam to flee. Bake fifteen minutes. Lessen the oven temperature to 400 levels F, and then bake twenty minutes, for the way you much like your meat done. Remove in the oven and let stand about ten minutes before serving in slices.