Leek and Mushroom Pies
This Fresh recipe has been extracted from the Yates Garden Fresh Cookbook published by HarperCollins.
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If you make the pastry in advance, cutting it into discs then freezing them, you’ll have a head start on making these moreish little pies. Take the pastry rounds out of the freezer and leave to thaw while you make the filling. They make good picnic fare or, if you make one large disc, a family lunch.
Ingredients:
Pastry
- 150 g chilled butter, diced
- 175 g plain flour
- 7 Tbsp sour cream, chilled
Filling
- 1 medium-sized leek
- 8 large button mushrooms
- 1 Tbsp black olives
- 4- 6 sun-dried tomatoes
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 2 tsp oil from sun-dried tomato jar
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 200 g creme fraiche
- Salt and pepper
- 1 Tbsp fresh thyme leaves, chopped
Method:
- Put the butter and flour in a food processor and pulse-whizz until the butter has crumbled through the flour. Add the sour cream and whizz for only a few seconds – it must be combined into the butter/flour but not necessarily have formed a ball.
- Tip onto a floured surface and pat together with your fingers, then cut the dough into four equal pieces. Roll each out thinly to make a round shape – it doesn’t have to be a perfect round.
- Place on a plate, with waxed paper between the rounds, and chill for up to an hour. (If freezing, put the chilled rounds and paper into a zip-lock bag and place on a flat tray in the freezer.)
- Trim the rough green leaves off the leek, slice the white and green part into fine rings and wash well to remove soil. Pat dry and put aside.
- Wipe or wash the mushrooms, remove stalks and wash separately, then chop the mushrooms and stalks into fine slices/pieces.
- Pit and chop the olives, and finely slice the sun-dried tomatoes.
- Heat the olive oil over medium heat, add the leeks and cook gently until soft, then add the mushrooms, olives and tomatoes with the oil from the jar of sun-dried tomatoes, and cook until the mushrooms are soft. Add the mustard and creme fraiche and cook until the creme
fraiche is bubbling hot. Add salt and pepper to taste. Put aside to cool.
To assemble:
- Preheat oven to 200°C.
- Pat equal amounts of fresh thyme around the edge of each pastry disc, and then turn them upside down. Spoon the leek mixture into the centre of the discs. Fold up the thyme-sprigged pastry edges around the filling.
- Put pastries on a baking sheet and cook for about 30 minutes or until the pastry is golden and puffed.
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Virginia
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19:41, 06 March 2010
Sounds nice, but I wonder if it would work with puff pastery.
Jan
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08:09, 07 March 2010
Could we have a calorie count on the recipe please or would it ruin the whole idea?
Dani
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05:15, 09 March 2010
Yuuuum! Going to give this one a go!
Gary
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09:34, 07 July 2010
add some diced chicken to it would also taste nice
David
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16:18, 09 September 2010
looks great
Michelle
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17:02, 10 September 2010
added diced chicken and some brie cheese. used ready made puff pasty YUM!
Annette
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10:00, 22 September 2010
Looks good. Cant wait to give it a go.
janice
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11:43, 04 November 2010
looking forward to also trying this recipe. I love anything in pastry.
Mark
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15:47, 07 December 2010
im not much of a cook, but il give it a go, if you dont hear back from me, something went wrong :o( LoL
lyn
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15:45, 08 July 2011
I would love my newsletter for July again, as someone deleted it and it looked so interesting. Recipe looked well worth a try too and I have found that but not all other info. Thanks
Anna-Rose
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19:35, 08 July 2011
sounds yummy, except for the thyme leaves, any ideas on a substitute for them....thanks in advance.....
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