Chicken curry pasties

[bellesy]

Name of Recipe:Chicken curry pasties
Number of People: Makes 24
Source:Adapted from a recipe at taste.com.au

Ingredients and method:

Add to bowl:   
* 1 onion, quartered
* 1 carrot, roughly chopped
Chop on sp 5 for 5 - 6 seconds.   

Add:
* 60g butter   
* 1 tsp curry powder
Saute for 3 mins at 100 degrees, speed 1.  Scrape down any mixture that hasn't been cooked as much as the rest and give it another 2 mins at 100 degrees, speed 1

Add:
* 190g mushrooms, chopped
* 1 tbs plain flour
* 1 1/2 cups stock
* 270g canned corn kernels, drained
Cook at 100 degrees, 10 mins   + sp 1 until sauce thickens, MC off.

Add:
* 2 cups roughly shredded BBQ chicken, about 290g
Mix on reverse, speed 2 or 3 until it's mixed through the sauce.  Pop the MC on while you do this.

Let the sauce mixture cool a bit.

Take:
* 6 sheets puff pastry
* Milk or egg yolk, to brush pastry
Cut each pastry sheet into 4 squares. Add about 2 tablespoons of the mixture to the centre of a piece of pastry. Fold over a corner diagonally to enclose the filling and form a triangle. Use a fork to seal the edges, then brush with milk or egg yolk.
  
Repeat with remaining pastry and mixture. Place on a lined baking tray and bake at around 200 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until golden.  Makes 24.

Tips/Hints:

I usually prepare a set of about 6 pasties, pop them in the oven, then prepare the rest.  I freeze the remaining uncooked pasties in lots of 6 with greaseproof paper between each one to stop them sticking to each other.  Then I just defrost and bake them as I need them.

You could also freeze any mixture you didn't need in icecube trays and take out 2 cubes per pastie needed, defrost that, wrap in pastry and bake as required.

Or you could just serve this on rice.  If you did that, you probably wouldn't need to worry about it thickening quite as much, as it would mean more sauce to soak into the rice.

Thanks to everyone for tips on how to convert the recipe.  

members' comments

Kimberley - These are in the oven cooking at the moment, the mix tastes yummo! I had some left over so used it over some veggies for my tea. It was really nice. I used fresh corn off the cob. I put in an extra spoonful of cornflour to get it thick enough but this could have been because I didn't put enough corn and chicken in - I guessed their amounts.
Thanks again, I think these would go down a treat as finger food at a party!

[cathy79]

Bellesy, I'd be tempted to throw it all in like Risotto.  You might as well try and see what happens.  That way (assuming it works) you'll end up with the simple conversion that you want.

May as well try.  Considering Bechamel Sauce works so wonderfully like this (instead of traditional slow addition), this should work.

[faffa_70]

I would throw it all in and just watch the cooking time, a pain the first time but once you have it right you can just set and go the next. Wouldn't have a clue how long for though it won't be like risotto as you only have the veg to cook. Maybe work on the Bechamel sauce time as a starting guide 

[Thermomixer]

I would not add the bbq chicken until the sauce with onions, carrots, flour etc has cooked out well and truly, s the chicken is already cooked.

[bellesy]

Thank you for the replies & tips.  I forgot to buy mushrooms  , so I'll be making it tonight instead. 

I'll wing it and report back with the results!

[bellesy]

I would not add the bbq chicken until the sauce with onions, carrots, flour etc has cooked out well and truly, s the chicken is already cooked.

I just tried the "all in" method, and stirred in the bbq chicken at the end, and it was quick, easy and just as good.  I've modified the original recipe to show this new method.

[rubyslippers]

These sound tasty.  I look forward to making them soon,   

[Dublin Girl in Oz]

Sounds great! I think I'll try it in pie maker with frozen pastry.
Thanks
Sylvia

[meganjane]

Mmmm, yum. Haven't noticed this one before. Thanks for bumping it!

[Kimberley]

These are in the oven cooking at the moment, the mix tastes yummo! I had some left over, so used it over some veggies for my tea. It was really nice. I used fresh corn off the cob. I put in an extra spoonful of cornflour to ge it thick enough, but this could have been because I didn't put enough corn and chicken in - I guessed their amounts.
Thanks again, I think these would go down a treat as finger food at a party!

[cookie1]

These would be a lovely picnic lunch on a Model A run for us.

[Thermomixer]

Good to hear bellesy - great idea really for that extra chicken.  Glad to hear my idea worked - phew!