Recipe: Tasty Cornish Pasties

Cornish Pasties.

You can have Cornish Pasties using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Cornish Pasties

1. It's 400 g of plain flour.
2. Prepare 200 g of unsalted butter.
3. It's 300 g of ground beef.
4. Prepare 1 of onion large, diced.
5. You need 1 of potato medium, diced.
6. It's 1 of carrot small, diced.
7. You need 1 tbsp of black pepper, freshly ground.
8. It's 2 tsp of salt.
9. Prepare 6 tbsp of water.
10. You need 1 of egg beaten.

Cornish Pasties instructions

1. Cut the butter into small pieces and put into a bowl with the flour and 1 tsp salt..
2. mix by hand and when it starts to firm up, add the 6 tablespoons of water and mix some more..
3. Remove the pastry from the bowl.
4. then cut into 4 pieces and put in the fridge for 20 minutes.
5. Mix together the beef, pepper, 1/2 tsp salt and the diced onion, potato and carrot in another bowl. (try adding turnips and/or peas if available!).
6. Preheat your oven to 220C, then take the chilled pastry pieces out of the fridge and roll into a 12" square.
7. Then cut out a circle.
8. and dollop 1/4 of your beef filling mixture into the middle..
9. Fold over the pastry and curl over the edge to form a crust. Press the edges with a fork for a nice decoration.
10. Place on a greased or lined baking tray, then lightly brush with your egg wash. Cook for 30 minutes at 180C.