You’ll Want To Get Your Paws On These Pasties

If you’ve never had the pleasure of devouring a hot Cornish pastie, you are in for a treat with these recipes! Cornish pasties are hand pies made from a shortcrust pastry that envelops meat, vegetables, and spices – basically, it’s an entire meal in the palm of your hand. Though they might seem intimidating, pasties are easy to make at home, especially if you take advantage of pre-made pie or puff pastry dough from the grocery store. Let’s dive in!

Irish Pub Pasties

This American take on an Irish take on pasties uses onion, cabbage, carrots, red potatoes, green onions, a leek, brown mustard, thyme, mozzarella, parmesan, and ground beef inside of pre-made pie crusts to make a pasty. As with all of these recipes, you’ll prepare the filling, put it into cut pieces of dough, seal the pasties, and bake them until golden brown. Though this recipe doesn’t mention it, an egg wash on top of the pasty will help it brown more evenly in the oven.

Onion And Potato Pasty – Vegetarian

This recipe uses onions, potatoes, and mature cheddar cheese for the filling instead of meat. In this recipe, you’ll boil the potatoes and the onions before baking the pasties to soften them into a proper filling texture. Then, you’ll add a bit of milk, cheese, mustard powder, salt, and pepper before filling your crusts. As this recipe uses minimal ingredients, you’ll want to make sure you use a good-quality cheese and crust, preferably a homemade crust.

BBC‘s Basic Shortcrust Pastry

If you’d like to make your own pastry for the pasties (say that five times fast!), BBC‘s recipe for shortcrust pastry is a great place to start. It only uses flour, butter, salt, and a few tablespoons of water to form a tender, flaky pastry to envelop your fillings.

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Authentic Cornish Pasty

This recipe for Cornish Pasty is about as authentic as it gets, and it is absolutely delicious. Potatoes, steak, rutabaga, and onion make up the filling that goes inside the gorgeous homemade crust. If you’d like, you can freeze any of these pasties before baking them to make a delicious meal later.