Boxing Day Pie

Recipe By:
Angelina
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  • Yield 4 Servings
  • Level Medium

A pie made of vegetables and sausage meat, is served with jacket potatoes and French beans.
 

Ingredients

  • 225 g/8 ounces puff pastry (paste), thawed if frozen
  • 225 g/8 ounces/2 cups diced cooked turkey
  • 100 g/4 ounces cooked sausage meat and/or stuffing, cut into pieces
  • 100 g/4 ounces cooked leftover vegetables
  • 100 g/4 ounces button mushrooms, sliced
  • 295 g/101/2 ounces/1 medium can of condensed mushrooms soup
  • 45 ml/3 tablespoon cranberry sauce
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • Beaten egg or a little single (light) cream, to glaze
  • Jacket-baked potatoes and french (green) beans, to serve
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Directions

  1. 1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/ gas mark 6.
  2. 2. Roll out the pastry to a round slightly larger than the top of a 1.2 litre/2 pint /5 cup pie dish. Put a pie funnel or eggcup in the centre of the dish.
  3. 3. Put the turkey, sausagemeat, stuffing vegetables and mushrooms in the dish and mix well. Spoon the soup and cranberry sauce over and season with black pepper.
  4. 4. Cut a strip off the pastry. Dampen the edge of the dish and lay the strip of pastry round the edge.
  5. 5. Lay the pastry lid in position, pressing well to the edge to seal. Pinch all round the edge between your finger and thumb to decorate and seal the top both layers of pastry together.
  6. 6. Make a slit in the centre over the pie funnel or eggcup to allow steam to escape.
  7. 7. Make leaves out of pastry trimmings, or roll them out and cut into attractive shapes with a pastry cutter, if liked. Brush the pastry lid with beaten egg or cream to glaze.
  8. 8. Lay the leaves or shapes in position and brush again.
  9. 9. Bake in the oven for about 35 minutes or until puffy, golden brown and piping hot Serve with jacket-baked potatoes and French beans.