Cornish Pastry

Ingredients list for Cornish Pastry

• 2 Boneless chicken breasts
• 60 grams Chilled butter
• 150 grams Refined flour (maida)
• to taste Salt
• 3 Spring onions with greens
• 2 tablespoons Oil
• 3-4 Garlic cloves finely chopped
• ½ cup Carrots small cubes
• ½ cup Yellow squash small cubes
• a few sprigs Fresh thyme
• ¼ teaspoon Crushed black peppercorns
• for greasing Egg wash
• to serve Tomato ketchup

Method

1. 2. Put butter in a bowl, add refined flour and salt and rub till it resembles breadcrumb texture. Add sufficient chilled water and knead into a semi-soft dough. Wrap the dough in cling wrap and keep in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes.
2. Finely chop spring onion bulbs.
3. Heat oil in a non-stick pan, add spring onions and sauté till translucent. Add garlic and sauté further for 2 minutes. Add carrots, squash and salt, mix well. Sprinkle a little water and mix well. Cook on low heat for 2 minutes.
4. Cut the chicken into small cubes. Add chicken to the pan and continue to cook for 3 minutes.
5. Add thyme and crushed black peppercorns and salt and mix well and cook till chicken is done finely chop spring onion greens and add and mix well.
6. Preheat oven at 180º C.
7. Dust some dry flour on the work top, place the dough on it and roll out as thinly as possible. Using a star shaped cutter, cut 4 pieces, then using a small round cutter cut 4 pieces, finally using a big round cutter cut 2 pieces. Remove the excess dough.
8. Place some chicken mixture in the centre of 2 star shaped pieces and apply a little water at the edges, cover with the remaining 2 star shaped pieces and press lightly with a fork to seal. Similarly proceed with the 4 small rounds.
9. Place some chicken mixture at one side of the bigger round pieces, fold the other side over to make a moon shaped pastry. Press the edges with a fork to seal.
   Grease a baking tray with some oil and place the pastries on it. Brush the beaten egg over all of them.
10. Place the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 15-20 minutes.
11. Serve hot with tomato ketchup.