Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Award-winning Cornish pasties

Cornish pasties
Cornish pasties

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, cornish pasties. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

A pasty (/ˈpæsti/) is a baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is made by placing an uncooked filling, typically meat and vegetables, on one half of a flat shortcrust pastry circle. Traditional Cornish miners' food, pasties are meat and vegetable hand pies or turnovers, great for lunches.

Cornish pasties is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Cornish pasties is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cornish pasties using 12 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Cornish pasties:
  1. Take Shortcrust pastry:
  2. Get 350 grams plain flour
  3. Take 150 grams either butter or margarine or a mixture of butter or margarine qnd cooking fat or lard
  4. Make ready cold water to bind
  5. Prepare Filling:
  6. Take 450 grams minced beef
  7. Take 2 medium
  8. Make ready 2 medium potatoes
  9. Make ready 2 tbsp beef stock
  10. Make ready to taste salt and pepper
  11. Take Glaze:
  12. Prepare 1 egg

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Instructions to make Cornish pasties:
  1. Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl; cut the selected fat into small pieces and drop into the flour.
  2. Rub the fat into the flour with the tips of your fingers, lifting the mixture high above the bowl, so it remains cool and does not become over sticky.
  3. Stop immediately the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs.
  4. Add the cold water slowly and gradually until you have just enough to bind the mixture together and leave the mixing bowl clean. You can use a knife first at the beginning of the process but you must use your fingertips to judge the consistency of the dough. Knead together very gently then use in the recipe.
  5. Make the pastry
  6. Roll out pastry and cut into 4 really large rounds.
  7. Cut the potatoes and onion into 5mm/ 1/4 inch cubes.
  8. Mix minced beef, potatoes, onion, salt, pepper and the stock.
  9. Spoon into the center of each pastry round.
  10. Dampen the pastry edges, bring together to form the traditional pastry shape, press firmly and flute.
  11. Lift on a baking tray.
  12. Beat the egg and brush over the pasties.
  13. Bake in the center of a hot oven 220°C/425°F for 20 min.
  14. Lower the heat to moderate 180°C/350°F for a further 25-30 min.
  15. Serve hot or cold

The Cornish pasty is known and loved throughout Great Britain and Ireland and comes from Pasties may no longer be the food of tin miners, but they are one of the nation's favorite snack or lunch foods. Photograph: Felicity Cloake for the Guardian. Are Cornish pasties your favourite kind, or will you admit to a sneaking fondness for cheese and onion. I find Cornish pasties often have too much pastry and not enough filling. However, the traditional filling of steak, potato and turnip is so delicious I now make one big pie.

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