Cornish Pastries (Spicy Sri Lankan Pastries) !!

As soon you heard of pastries, it’s more difficult than eating a pastry for anyone who think of making it. First of all I really didn’t have a simple clue how I’m going to make it.  Have seen pastry dough’s has to roll, fold and again roll to get the  certain thickness and crispiness. 

As I’m going to demonstrate how I made the traditional Cornish pastry dough is simply fast and easy to make.  The traditional Cornish pastries were started making from Cornwall district in Britain. And the genuine Cornish Pastry has a distinctive “D” shape and crisp on one side. Someone may call it, beef patties or pastry. Since traditionally it’s made with beef  (minced or steak) and potatoes. Since I’m going to make my own way of Cornish Pastry, I would rather call it, Spicy Sri Lankan Pastries. 

Preheat the oven to 350` for 12-15 minutes

Ingredients:

For Dough:

• 500g of flour
• 250g of butter or margarine
• Pinch of salt
• ¼ cup of water

• 01 beaten egg to grease pastries to get the nice crisp & shine on of the pastries. 

For Filling:

• 400g of corn beef (Can be use minced meat too)
• 02 big size potatoes (Cut into small cubes and half boil)
• 02 big size carrots (Cut into small cubes and half boil)
• Half a tin of green peas
• Some spinach & mushrooms
• 1/2 a cup of chopped or diced onions
• Finely chopped garlic
• 01 chopped tomatoes 
• Finely chopped green chilies 
• Salt, pepper & chili powder
• Few tsp of soya sauce

Instructions for making of Dough:

• Pour the flour in a large bowl and season it with a pinch of salt. 
• Add the butter or margarine to flour and make small crumb pieces. Until you make them nice and fine crumbs.
• Now, finally add water little by little make the crumbs into a nice dough. Cut the dough into 6 equal pieces. Leave it for one hour.

Instructions for making of Filling:

• Season the corn beef with spices and soya sauce. Add the diced onions, garlic, tomatoes and green chilies into the same beef mixture.
• Heat the pan with some oil and add the beef mixture and cook them nicely.
• Then add half boiled potatoes, carrots, green peas & rest of the vegetables. 
• Leave the mixture aside to cool.

Making of Pastry:

• Roll each dough ball to the thickness of 2mm.
• Take some filling and place in the middle of the rolled dough. Apply some beaten egg around the  dough, except for the filling area. 
• Fold the pastry, makes the design of your own.
• I’m going to fold it and twist the ends and join the both ends. 
• Finally, drizzle some olive oil on the pastries. Apply some beaten egg too. 
• Keep the pastries on oven until it gets a nice golden color.

Enjoy the meal !!!