Slow Cooked Beef & Red Wine Pie

What is it?

Tender beef pieces sit in a red wine gravy, then get topped with puff pastry for baking from frozen. It’s a classic pie format: braised meat, sauce, and a lid that should turn crisp in the oven. Compared with other M&S frozen pies, this one leans on beef and wine rather than cream or root veg, so the filling stays quite straightforward. Like most pies in the range, it’s built to go from freezer to oven, with the pastry doing the final work as it cooks and the gravy thickening underneath.