Chilli Pasties Print Option

Remember the good old pastie you used to get from the school tuck shop? Mad Mick does, he often went back for seconds. These are a great lunch time snack.

Makes 8 pasties.

Ingredients

8 plain, thick sausages
3 medium potatoes
1 medium carrot
1 small sweet potato
Half a cup each of peas and corn kernels
Salt & Pepper
Mixed dried herbs
6 small red chilli (Birds eyes perhaps)
1 teaspoon (the ones you stir your tea with) Worcesteshire sauce
2 eggs
Olive oil
8 puff pastry sheets
Plain flour, for dusting the pastry

Method

1. Pre-heat your oven to 200c.
2. Peel and roughly chop the potatoes, carrot, sweet potato and place in blender with the whole chillis and blend until it looks like coleslaw, empty into a bowl and set aside.
3. Roughly chop the sausages and place into the blender and blend until it looks like mince meat.
4. Add the minced sausage in with the vegetables, add the corn and peas, a pinch of salt and pepper, a sprinkle of the herbs and the Worcestershire sauce.
5. Combine with your (clean) hands the mixture you made at step 4.
6. Using a bowl or plate that is a similar diameter to the width of your pastry sheets, place it on top of the pastry and cut around the edge with a sharp knife, so you end up with a round piece of pastry. Repeat on the remaining pastry sheets.
7. Crack the eggs into a bowl and beat with a fork.
8. Dust a round pastry sheet lightly with flour, brush some beaten egg around the edge, and spoon about 3 good tablespoons (the ones you eat your breakfast with) of the meat/vege filling in the centre so the filling is long like a sausage, but not to the end of the pastry sheet.
9. Bring opposite edges of the pastry together, pinch and fold over on itself and continue along the edge, until you have formed a parcel, or a typical pastie shape. Pierce with a fork on both sides, and brush all over with the egg mix. Repeat
10. Place the formed pasties onto a baking tray either lined with greaseproof paper or smeared in a light coating of olive oil.
11. Put them into the pre-heated oven for about 30 minutes or until golden brown.
12. Serve them up with a good squirt of tomato sauce and Bob's your uncle (or, 'it's all good' if you're unfamiliar with Mad Mick's Aussie slang)