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Boxing Day Pasties

by Jack Monroe from A Year in 120 Recipes

Use up your Christmas leftovers with these inspired Boxing Day pasties. Whether you have some extra turkey, vegetables or cranberry, create these in minutes.

Introduction

Make something other than turkey sandwiches this year! A Boxing Day pasty is the ideal place to smuggle leftover sprouts and veg, along with any scraps of meat, gravy and cranberry sauce that might be kicking about. It’s a roast dinner in a pasty. What could be better?

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Ingredients

125g butter, plus extra for greasing, etc.
125g lard
500g plain flour, plus extra for dusting, etc.
1 egg
Any quantity of leftovers of carrots, parsnips, cauliflower cheese, broccoli, other veg, turkey, chicken, ham, pigs in blankets, gravy, cranberry sauce, apple sauce, stuffing …

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4.

First make the pastry. Dice the butter and lard. Tip the flour into a large mixing bowl and add the butter and lard. Rub into the flour with your fingertips to a breadcrumb texture, then add cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, and mix with a knife to form a dough.

Divide the dough into 4 pieces, cover and chill for 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, take your solid leftovers and mash them roughly together in a large bowl. Add a little wetness – either gravy, cranberry sauce, apple sauce or a little stock. You don’t want a slushy mixture that will leak through your pastry, but you do want a pleasantly moist one.

Lightly grease a baking tray. Lightly flour your work surface. Remove the pastry from the fridge and roll out one piece to just shy of 1cm thick. Lay a large side plate on top and cut around it with a blunt knife to form a round shape. Place a few tablespoons of the leftovers mixture in the centre. Carefully lift each side so they meet in the middle, and pinch together with your fingertips. Pinch and fold the sides in, and place on the baking tray. Repeat until all the dough and leftovers are used up.

Beat the egg and brush it over the pastry, or use your fingers if you don’t have a pastry brush. Bake in the centre of the oven for 45 minutes until golden. Allow to cool for a few minutes before serving. Can be enjoyed hot or cold.

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