Cornish Pasty
An easy recipe of flash fried beef with vegetables encased in fluffy pastry – the perfect Cornish Pasty.
Cornish Pasty An easy recipe of flash fried beef with vegetables encased in fluffy pastry – the perfect Cornish Pasty. |
| Servings | Prep Time |
| 6pies | 10min |
| Cook Time |
| 30min |
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Ingredients
Pastry
- 250gr buttersoftened
- 250ml sour cream
- 1tablespoon lemon juice
- 3cups flour
Filling
- 15ml olive oil
- 400gr beef cubes
- 2tablespoon olive oilto saute veggies
- 1 onionpeeled and finely chopped
- 2 carrotspeeled and finely chopped
- 1 potatopeeled and chopped fine
- fewsprigs fresh rosemary and thyme
- 1cup beef stock
- 2tablespoons flour
- salt and black pepperto season
- 1large eggwhisked
Instructions
- First off, in a mixing bowl, combine the ingredients for the pastry and work through it until you have a firm dough. Refrigerate.
- In a saucepan, heat the oil until smoking hot, and flash fry the meat until just done. Remove from pan.
- Add the rest of the oil and saute the vegetables, until translucent and soft.
- Add the herbs, stock and flour, season and simmer for a few minutes until slightly thickened.
- Add the meat, mix through.
- Roll the dough to about 2 mm thick, and press out if you need individual pies, or simply line a pie dish with dough, fill it up with filling, and cover it with another topping of dough. Egg wash the top.
- Bake in the oven for 15 minutes until golden brown, at 180 degrees Celsius.