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Corned Beef and Potato Pasties

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Corned Beef and Potato Pasties

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Ingredients

  • 1 medium onion
  • 340g corned beef
  • 4 tbsp instant mashed potato mix
  • flour for sprinkling
  • 500g fresh shortcrust pastry
  • a little melted butter or vegetable oil
  • milk or beaten egg
  • 2 tomatoes
Serves: 4 Preparation: 30 Cook Time: 40 Total Time: 70min whats this
 

Directions

  1. Peel the onion and chop it as finely as you can on a chopping board.
  2. Put the onion into the saucepan with l water and ask an adult to heat it until it boils. Turn down the heat, cover the pan and simmer for minutes.
  3. While the onion is cooking, ask an adult to open the corned beef for you, then chop it into small pieces.
  4. When the onion is cooked, stir in the mashed potato mix with the wooden spoon, then stir in the corned beef. Leave the mixture to cool.
  5. Sprinkle some flour on a worktop and, using the rolling pin, roll out the pastry thinly. Using the saucer as a guide, cut around it with a knife to make pastry rounds. You should be able to get circles in one go. Roll out the pastry trimmings and cut out more circles.
  6. Arrange the pastry circles on the worktop and place an equal amount of the cooled filling in the centre of each one. Fold up the sides of the pastry to make a flower shape, leaving some of the filling still showing at the top.
  7. Ask an adult to preheat the oven to //gas mark Use a little butter or oil to grease the baking tray.
  8. Put the pasties on the baking tray. Brush the pastry with a little milk or beaten egg using the pastry brush ? this will make them brown nicely in the oven.
  9. Cut the tomatoes into quarters and sit one on top of each pasty. Cook towards the top of the oven for about minutes until they are golden brown.
  10. . Ask an adult to help you remove the pasties from the oven, then use a fish slice to transfer them to a cooling rack. Let them go cold and serve them at picnics or in school lunch boxes.

 

Source: Tesco

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