Game of Thrones Kidney Pie Recipe

Season 6, episode 1 of Game of Thrones is just around the corner (it releases on April 24^th) and we can’t sit still. To feed our obsession for the Seven Kingdoms, we’ve spent Sunday binge watching the previous seasons of the series and are now even more emotionally invested in the show. While we always arm ourselves with a bottle of mulled wine (try this recipe) when watching Game of Thrones, while watching episode 7 of season 4, we found ourselves craving something a little more substantial; a slice of kidney pie.

Hot Pie’s Kidney Pie

In the real world, steak and kidney pie is a popular dish in British cuisine, made by filling a crust with beef and lamb or pork kidneys, fried onion and brown gravy.

Hot Pie, a previous companion of Arya Stark, serves Brienne of Tarth and Tyrion’s ex squire, Podrick Payne kidney pie at an inn they are dining at. After Brienne compliments the pie, Hot Pie gives them a lecture on how to make the perfect kidney pie –

” A good kidney pie is all about the ingredients. Flour, lard, water, eggs, milk – easy enough. But the meat? Peacetime or not, getting your hands on a good bottom round steak and calves’ kidneys is not easy. I mean, some people settle for plain old beef kidneys. Got no right to cook anything, them. Oh, and the gravy! Don’t get me started on the gravy. Very difficult to get right. See, a lot of people give up on the gravy. You cannot give up on the gravy. No gravy, no pie – Simple as that.”

Using his precise instructions and our own cooking know how, we’ve put together a kidney and steak pie recipe; practice making one so you can serve a delicious kidney pie at a season premier viewing party you may be throwing. Or, just have it for lunch or dinner today with a side of mashed potatoes and vegetables.

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Our take on Hot Pie's kidney pie.

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Ingredients

• 330 grams puff pastry
• 1 egg + 1 egg yolk beaten

For the filling

• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 700 grams stewing beef diced
• 200 grams lamb kidney diced
• 2 onions diced
• 30 gram flour
• 850 ml beef stock
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Servings MetricUS Imperial Ingredients 330 grams puff pastry 1 egg + 1 egg yolk beaten For the filling 2 tbsp vegetable oil 700 grams stewing beef diced 200 grams lamb kidney diced 2 onions diced 30 gram flour 850 ml beef stock Salt and freshly ground black pepper

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Instructions

1. Preheat an oven to 220C.
2. Heat the vegetable oil and brown the beef and kidney separately.
3. In the same oil, sauté the onions and then stir in the beef and kidneys again.
4. Add the flour and stir well.
5. Pour in the stock and allow it to boil.
6. Turn the heat down and allow the gravy to simmer for an hour and a half.
7. Remove it from the heat and stir in the salt and pepper.
8. Allow the mixture to cool and spoon it into a pie dish.
9. Roll out the pastry and use it to cover the pie dish.
10. Brush the top of the pie with the egg mixture and bake for 30-40 minutes.
11. Take out of the oven and serve warm.