CHEESE AND POTATO PASTY
Ingredients
- 225g/8oz plain flour
- 100g/3½oz butter
- 1 free-range egg
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 80g/3oz walnuts
- crushed finely
- milk
- to bind (if necessary)
- 400g/14oz new potatoes
- cut into cubes and boiled until tender
- 400g/14oz smoked cheese
- cut into cubes
- handful baby spinach
- 2 red onions
- cut into wedges
- roasted for 30 minutes
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 free-range egg
- beaten
- for egg wash
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion
- sliced
- 1 garlic clove
- finely sliced
- 1 chilli
- finely chopped
- thumb-sized piece fresh ginger
- sliced into matchsticks
- 450g/1lb carrots
- grated
- splash green ginger wine
- 150g/5oz demerara sugar
- 150ml/5fl oz white wine vinegar
- 1 tsp ground cloves
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
- For the pastry place the plain flour
- butter
- egg
- seasoning and walnuts into a food processor and pulse until combined into a dough. Add a splash or two of milk if necessary to bring the dough together. Remove and roll the dough into a ball
- then cover with cling film and place into the fridge to chill for two hours.
- Remove the dough from the fridge and cling film. Roll out on a clean floured surface to 2cm/1in thickness and cut out a round using a 15cm/6in plate as a guide.
- For the filling
- place the new potatoes
- cheese
- spinach and red onions into a bowl. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and mix well.
- Now place the potato mixture onto one half of the pastry. Fold over the other half to cover
- crimp the edges to seal and brush with the egg wash. Place onto a baking sheet and place into the oven to bake for 20 minutes
- or until crisp and golden.
- For the chutney
- heat the oil in a frying pan over a medium heat. Add the onion
- garlic
- chilli and ginger and fry until soft.
- Add the carrot and cook for ten minutes.
- Add the ginger wine and boil to reduce
- until nearly all of the liquid has evaporated.
- Add the sugar
- vinegar
- cloves and cinnamon and simmer for 15-25 minutes
- or until the liquid has reduced and the mixture is thickened.
- To serve
- place the pasty on a plate with the chutney spooned alongside.

