Pastei Recipes

PASTIES II

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in water until mixture forms a ball. Shape into a ball. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• In a large bowl, combine meat, potatoes, onion, rutabaga and chopped carrots. Season with salt and pepper. Divide dough into six pieces, and shape into balls. On a lightly floured surface, roll each ball into a 6 inch round. Place approximately 1 cup filling on one half of each. Dot each with 1 tablespoon margarine. Draw the other half of the pastry over the filling. Crimp edges to seal in filling. Prick with a fork and place on prepared baking sheet.
• Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour.

PASTIA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
• In large mixing bowl, combine noodles, butter, sugar, milk, cream, anise, vanilla, eggs and ricotta. Spoon into 9x13 inch baking dish and bake for 1 1/4 hours, until golden and knife inserted in center comes out clean. Cool and serve.

BASIC PASTA

Steps:

• In a medium sized bowl, combine flour and salt. Make a well in the flour, add the slightly beaten egg, and mix. Mixture should form a stiff dough. If needed, stir in 1 to 2 tablespoons water.
• On a lightly floured surface, knead dough for about 3 to 4 minutes. With a pasta machine or by hand roll dough out to desired thinness. Use machine or knife to cut into strips of desired width.

BAKED FETA PASTA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. In a 13x9-in. baking dish, combine tomatoes, garlic and 1/4 cup olive oil. Place the block of feta in the center, moving tomatoes so cheese is sitting on the pan bottom. Drizzle feta with remaining oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake until tomatoes skins start to split and the garlic has softened, 30-40 minutes. , Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions for al dente. Drain, reserving 1 cup pasta water. , Stir feta mixture, lightly pressing tomatoes, until combined. Add pasta and toss to combine. Stir in enough reserved pasta water to achieve desired consistency. Sprinkle with basil.

PASTEI

Steps:

• Mix the butter with an electric mixer or a wooden spoon. Keep adding little bits of the water until the butter has absorbed it all.
• Sift the flour, baking powder and the salt all together and add this through the butter gradually. To see if the dough is rollable, press your finger on it and if the dough doesn't stick to it, it's fine. If the dough does stick however, add about 25 more grams of flour.
• Rest pastry for 30mins in the fridge.
• Break off about 1/4 of the pastry and reserve for the top of the pie.
• Roll out the larger piece and put the flattened dough in a baking pan. Press the dough to the corners of the pan so that as much filling as possible can go inches
• Saute the 1/2 the onion in about 100g butter add the chicken and brown slightly. Add the pepper and bay leaf 2 crumbled stock cubes and 1/2 tsp pimento. Cover with enough water and cook for about 30 minutes Cool slightly.
• When cool enough to handle, remove the chicken from the liquid (reserve the liquid) and strip the chicken (discarding the bones) into little pieces.
• Put the rest of the butter in the reserved liquid in which the chicken had been boiled.
• Saute the remainder of the onion and oil in a pan. Add the chicken. After a minute add the chopped tomatoes and the peas and carrots and the remainder of the allspice.
• Add the chicken broth to the pan and simmer until carrots slightly tender.
• Add the chopped pickles. Check seasoning, and add if need be.
• Cool to about luke warm. Or at this stage you can store in the fridge until the next day.
• Preheat the oven to 375°C.
• Fill the prepared pastry pan. Slice your cooked eggs and place them on top of the filling in the pan.
• Roll out the remaining pastry and place gently ontop, sealing the edges with some water and pressing the pastry closed. Slit a couple of steam vents in the pastry.
• Bake for 1 hour. Take out of oven and brush with beaten egg and bake a further 10mins or so to give it a nice finish.