Traditional Cornish Pasties
Traditional Cornish Pasties

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, traditional cornish pasties. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

The traditional Cornish pasty uses very particular ingredients. Though it won't be authentic, you can make a pasty with a variety of fillings. Designed to be an economical meal, use the meats and vegetables that you have in the kitchen. Pork, chicken, carrots, leeks, peas, and sweet potatoes are just a few options.

Traditional Cornish Pasties is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Traditional Cornish Pasties is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have traditional cornish pasties using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Cornish Pasties:
  1. Get for the pastry
  2. Prepare 500 g x strong flour
  3. Prepare 120 g beef suet
  4. Make ready 50 g x lard
  5. Get 200 ml x cold water
  6. Prepare 1 tsp x table salt and black pepper
  7. Get for the filling
  8. Take 350 g x skirt of beef
  9. Prepare 350 g x maris piper potatoes
  10. Make ready 200 g x swede
  11. Take 175 g x white onion
  12. Prepare 1 tbsp x chopped parsley and thyme
  13. Make ready to taste salt and pepper
  14. Take 1 x beaten egg for glaze

Make a small hole in each to allow some of the steam to escape. These Cornish Pasties are filled with a mixture of well-seasoned steak, onions, potatoes and swede (or rutabaga/yellow turnip if you're in the US). The meat and vegetables are placed in the pastry raw, with a really good pinch of salt and pepper and a few dots of butter, then sealed and cooked in the pastry. Traditional Cornish pasties use skirt steak from the underside belly of the cow because it's lean and free of gristle.

Steps to make Traditional Cornish Pasties:
  1. Combine the lard, suet and water into the strong flour, along with the salt and pepper
  2. Work with your hands for a few minutes, turn out onto a work surface when it looks shaggy, and continue to knead (like bread dough for 5 minutes) until you have a firm springy dough, wrap in cling film and refrigerate while you prepare the filling, if the dough will not form keep working with damp hands it will get there.
  3. Dice all of the vegetables to around 1cm, chop the herbs and mix in a bowl.
  4. Now dice the skirt, it has a very obvious grain, first cut into large batons with the grain about 1 1/2 inch thickness. Turn 90 degrees and slice 1/2 cm approx against the grain
  5. Season well and thoroughly mix
  6. Cut chilled dough into 4, keep the dough covered with cling film while not in use, form 1 piece into a ball and then flatten with your hand to form a round disc.
  7. Roll the pastry to the size of a large dinner plate, 10 - 12 inches, you do not need flour for this. Arrange 1/4 of the filling just below the centre.
  8. Place a small slice of butter on top of the filling (opt) I have a fetish for butter and think its makes everything better, it will create a little extra steam inside while baking. Lift the far side over the filling and form a semi circle
  9. Firmly press the edges together (no water or egg required) and then crimp, have fun with this and don't obsess about perfection. Use 1 finger on 1 hand to hold the dough down and 1 finger of the other hand to fold and press the pastry over. Tuck the edges under
  10. Firmly press the pasty into shape, pierce a small hole to allow steam to vent and arrange all four on baking sheets lined with baking parchment. Brush well with beaten egg, sprinkle with sea salt or seeds before baking
  11. Bake at 170c for 1 hour 15 mins, you can't eat them until they've cooled down, they are best eaten warm or room temp with loads of ketchup, the last image is of me looking very pleased with my pasties. These screen shots are taken from my YouTube channel here is a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EAx_iugdFc&t=231s

The meat and vegetables are placed in the pastry raw, with a really good pinch of salt and pepper and a few dots of butter, then sealed and cooked in the pastry. Traditional Cornish pasties use skirt steak from the underside belly of the cow because it's lean and free of gristle. Add a couple of pats of butter on top of the filling ingredients followed by a light sprinkling of flour. Traditional Cornish Pasty are savory packages of beef and potatoes wrapped in flaky, buttery pastry. It makes a wonderful lunch or dinner on a chilly day.

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