A Simple Cornish Pasty Recipe | British food

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil reduces saturated fat content.

beef

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: pork

Chicken is leaner and pork is often less expensive.

all-purpose flour

🥗Healthier: whole wheat flour

💰Cheaper: bread flour

Whole wheat flour adds fiber.

Welcome back to Auntie Ace Kitchen.

Make shortcrust pastry by measuring out flour and butter into a bowl.

Grate the butter or cube it, then add a generous pinch of salt and mix together.

Add cold water in stages until the mixture starts to come together.

Form the mixture into a disc shape and wrap it in plastic wrap.

Chill the pastry in the fridge for a minimum of 30 minutes.

Cube the beef into bite-sized pieces and set aside.

Chop the onion into small pieces.

Cut the swede (or German turnip) into small cubes.

Cut the potatoes last and place them in water to prevent browning.

Preheat the oven and lightly flour a baking tray.

Roll out the chilled pastry on a floured surface until a couple of millimeters thick.

Use a dinner plate (about 23cm in diameter) to cut out pastry circles.

Fill one half of the pastry with a layer of meat, onions, swede, and potatoes.

Season with salt and pepper, add knobs of butter, and sprinkle flour on top.

Repeat the filling process for a second layer of ingredients.

Wet the edges of the pastry with your finger to help seal it.

Fold the pastry over to form a pocket and squeeze the edges together.

Crimp the edges by folding them over with your finger.

Place the filled pasty onto the floured baking tray.

Make initials out of spare pastry for decoration.

For the second pasty, use a piece of scrap pastry as a divider.

Fill one side with savory ingredients and the other with sweet ingredients (apple, lemon, raisins, cinnamon, sugar, flour, butter).

Wet the edges and fold the pastry over to seal.

Crimp the edges of the second pasty using a different method.

Brush both pasties with beaten egg and decorate with initials or shapes.

Cut two holes in the top of each pasty to allow steam to escape.

Place the pasties in the preheated oven.

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