Family picnic recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has butter, plain flour, english mustard, egg, butter, onion, pea, ham, mint and ricotta.
Ham, pea & mint pasties
Course: Family picnic
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
40 mins
Ingredients
- Onion: 1 onion, finely chopped
- Egg: 1 egg, beaten for glazing
- Mint: small bunch mint, leaves picked and finely chopped
- Butter: 175g cold butter, chopped into chunks
- Pea: 200g peas, frozen or cooked fresh
- Ham: 100g thickly sliced ham, chopped into small chunks
- Plain Flour: 350g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- Ricotta: 250g pack ricotta
- English Mustard: 1/2 tsp English mustard powder
Directions
- Tip the butter, flour and mustard powder into a food processor with 1/2 tsp salt and whizz until you can't see any lumps of butter. Add roughly 4-5 tbsp cold water, a spoonful at a time, while pulsing until the pastry comes together. Tip out onto a clean surface, bring together into a ball and chill while you make the filling.
- Melt the butter in a frying pan. Add the onion and gently sweat for 10-15 mins until really soft, but not very coloured. Stir in the peas for 1 min, then turn off the heat and stir in the ham, mint and ricotta with plenty of seasoning.
- Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and divide the pastry into 4 equal pieces. Roll each piece to a neat 16-17cm circle - cut round a saucer or lid. Brush the edges with a little of the beaten egg, spoon a quarter of the filling into the middle, then bring up opposite sides of the pastry and seal. Crimp to make a pasty shape. Carefully lift onto a baking sheet. Repeat with the rest of the pastry, then brush the finished pasties all over with egg. Bake for 35-40 mins until golden and crisp. Leave to cool slightly, then serve either warm or cold.
