Recipe for Pastetli (Meat Pie)

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Pastetli (Meat pie)

Recipe and picture by Betty-Bossi, used with permission.

Ingredients for 6 persons:

450 g (1 pound) puff-paste
2 tablespoons margarine or butter
1 shallot, hacked
1 clove of garlic, pressed
800 g (1.75 pounds) small mushrooms, cut into four pieces each
1 dl (3.4 fl. ounces) white wine
180 g (6.3 ounces) half and half sour
1 dl (3.4 fl. ounces) cream
1 teaspoon curry
1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce
½ teaspoon paprika, a small amount of nutmeg and cayenne pepper
salt or spices

Preparation:

Bake 6 large heart-shaped pies made out of the puff-paste for about 15 to 20 minutes
Heat margarine or butter in a pot
Add shallot and clove of garlic, stew
Add white wine and mushrooms, mix, cover and cook for about 5 minutes
Increase heat, cook in open pot until half of the fluid has gone
Add half and half and cream
Add curry, worcestershire sauce, paprika, nutmeg, pepper and salt
Distribute the filling into the heated pies, serve immediately

Hints: You may replace part of the mushrooms with small pieces of veal.
You may want to prepare the pies in advance, but they have to be heated in the oven before the filling gets added.

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