Mini Spiced Pumpkin & Pine Nut Pasties

[NICKY 74]

thinking this sounds good that i may try to make a large pie/tart, hopefully have no trouble keeping mixture in then. will let you know how it goes. think i will make this tonight with a salad on this hot day! 

[NICKY 74]

yep, worked really well! made one big square pie, (the size of one whole sheet of puff pastry) put pastry on top and bottom, baked for around 35 mins.
followed filling to recipe but just put a splash of water in. was still fairly runny, but was easy to put into big pie where the pastry came up the sides. wasnt too runny when it was served though, toddlers loved it too. i probably wouldnt even bother to mash next time as was all combined enough before i did this, then would have had slightly more texture to pie. a big success though and will be on my menu again soon!
thanks cp63.
nicky 

[CreamPuff63]

clever girl 

[NICKY 74]

decided to have a go at making gosleme tonight for dinner, so thought i would use this for the filling! have some pumpkin from garden and some left over chicken, will add this too.

[cookie1]

I'll be interested to see how it goes. I keep meaning to do gozleme but have never done it.

[NICKY 74]

hi cookie, it went really well, everyone loved them including toddlers and grandparents! i also cooked them in the sandwich press, it made them healthier, but did taste quite like a toastie, not quite like the ones we have had and love from harbour town! would maybe try a diffenrent gosleme dough recipe next time, some of them have yoghurt in them which mine did not, that might make a bit of difference!
cookie, it was lovely to meet you the other week at the demo! always great to put a face to a name.
nicky 

[cookie1]

  Me too.

[CreamPuff63]

I use the Gozleme recipe from Budget Busters...

[cookie1]

Thanks.

[NICKY 74]

thanks cp63 i dont have that booklet yet, but will have to get it now!

[CreamPuff63]

"Sun-dried salted potatoes"? I've never heard of doing that. Where did you get that idea from Legend?  Sounds very interesting.

Guess what? Just found out one of my DD's friends had set up an account and made this comment and a couple of other posts I made...ha ha very thought provoking Legend - you've now been sprung! 

[katesjoy]

Made these for a friends party yesterday. Delicious!!! Everyone raved about them. I didn't have any issues with overflowing as long as a resisted the urge to overfill. My crumpet rings were the perfect pastry cut out size!

[JuliaC83]

Made these for lunch today minus coriander and pine nuts as I didn't have any!
Delicious
I managed to make 27 as I gathered remaining pastry from 3 sheets, kneaded and rolled out - another 9 circles Perfect to use up all the mixture!
I also found it useful to stretch each circle out to make it easier to fold pastry over the mixture. Will definitely make again

[CreamPuff63]

They look delish Julia, glad you enjoyed them 

[Lucyluu]

First time I made these I thought the filling was too wet and put the recipe away for a while. I came across it again recently and changed it a little so I could use it as a filling for cannelloni. I used Jap pumpkin as I didn't have any butternut, I added 1 teaspoon of coriander powder and 1 teaspoon of garam masala, (Not very italian I know), instead of fresh coriander with the pumpkin.  I followed the instructions up to the point of adding the water/ I only added one half MC full of water and cooked for 3 minutes on 100 speed 2.
Any longer and the pumpkin mixture will catch on the bottom of jug.
To this I added approx 8 leaves of siverbeet that had been finely chopped and wilted in the microwave for about 2 minutes (1100watt oven) This was stirred through the pumpkin mixture with a spatula. When it cooled a little I added the feta, then this went into cannelloni tubes,( about 6 of them).
I poured passata into the bottom of a small enamel pie dish then added the tubes covered with more passata, parmessan cheese and baked for about 30 minutes. My vegetarian sister polished it off in no time, sorry no photos. But it was just an experiment that worked well. I do have some of the pumpkin mix left over so I'll be making pasties with that.