How to Make Delicious Sweet Potato, Cheese & Onion Pasties

Sweet Potato, Cheese & Onion Pasties.

You can cook Sweet Potato, Cheese & Onion Pasties using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sweet Potato, Cheese & Onion Pasties

1. It's of For the pastry.
2. It's 500 g of strong plain flour.
3. You need 1 teaspoon of salt.
4. You need 120 g of vegetable shortening (Trex® or other).
5. It's 125 g of unsalted butter, softened to room temperature.
6. You need 150 ml of cold water.
7. Prepare of For the filling.
8. You need 1 of large sweet potato, peeled and diced.
9. Prepare 1 of large brown onion, finely chopped.
10. It's 200 g of extra mature Cheddar cheese, grated.
11. Prepare 1 teaspoon of English mustard powder.
12. Prepare 2 teaspoons of Cayenne pepper, to taste.
13. You need to taste of ground black pepper to season,.
14. Prepare 1 of egg, beaten, to glaze the pasties.

Sweet Potato, Cheese & Onion Pasties instructions

1. Pre-heat your oven to 170 C / Gas 3-4. Line a large baking sheet with greaseproof paper..
2. Sift the flour into a large bowl. Add the salt and stir it in. Add the shortening and butter and rub both into the flour until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Make a well in the middle and add the water. Incorporate the flour and stir until it starts to form a dough. Get your hands in (it’s gonna get messy) and then remove to a lightly floured surface & start to knead. You need to knead the dough until it becomes elastic. This is to ensure it can hold the filling and keep a good shape..
3. Wrap it in cling film and put it in the fridge for around 2 to 3 hours..
4. Fill a pan half full of water. Add the sweet potato and onion. Get to boiling point and then turn it down to simmer until the sweet potato is soft enough to be able to mash it. Remove from the heat and drain. Mash the sweet potato and onion together. Add the cheese and give it a good stir so that it’s well combined. Add the mustard powder, cayenne pepper and black pepper and stir it through the mixture..
5. Roll out your pastry to about 3mm thickness. You can use a side plate as a rough guide for size (around a 20cm circle for each pasty). Put a good dollop of the sweet potato mixture across the centre of the circle but leave enough room to fold over the pastry to cover it and form the pasty. With some cold water wet half of the edge of one half of the pastry and fold over the other half. Gently press it down so that it seals and then “crimp” the pasty..
6. Put each pasty on the baking tray, leaving a space of about 5cm between each one, and brush over with beaten egg to give each one a nice golden brown finish when they’re baked..
7. Pop in the oven and bake for 50 to 55 minutes. Once baked either put on a wire rack to cool and eat cold or serve hot – your choice..
8. These can be frozen or they can be kept in the fridge for 4 to 5 days..