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Pheasant & mushroom pastry puff slice

Pheasant & mushroom pastry puff slice 2016

Pheasant & mushroom pastry puff slice

Name: Pheasant & mushroom pastry puff slice
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 tbsp olive oil; 20g butter; 2 thyme sprigs leaves picked; 5 rashers smoked streaky bacon finely chopped; 2 garlic cloves finely chopped; 3 large shallots finely chopped; 8 mushrooms (preferably wild, oyster or chestnut), finely chopped; 100g left-over pheasant meat, finely chopped; 1 tbsp fino sherry or white wine; 4 tbsp crème fraîche; 320g ready-rolled puff pastry sheet; plain flour for dusting; 1 egg mixed with 2 tsp milk (to make an egg wash); 1 tsp nigella seeds

Rosie Birkett

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Serves 4

Easy

Prep: 40 mins

Cook: 40 mins

plus chilling

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Looking for an easy way to use up tasty pheasant leftovers? This golden brown pastry parcel with a sherry and crème fraîche sauce makes a filling lunch or hearty supper

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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1 tbsp olive oil
20g butter
2 thyme sprigs

leaves picked
5 rashers smoked streaky bacon

finely chopped
2 garlic cloves

finely chopped
3 large shallots

finely chopped
8 mushrooms

(preferably wild, oyster or chestnut), finely chopped
100g left-over pheasant

meat, finely chopped
1 tbsp fino sherry

or white wine
4 tbsp crème fraîche
320g ready-rolled puff pastry

sheet
plain flour

for dusting
1 egg

mixed with 2 tsp milk (to make an egg wash)
1 tsp nigella seeds

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal628
fat51g
saturates25g
carbs28g
sugars3g
fibre3g
protein12g
salt1.6g

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Heat the olive oil and butter in a heavy-bottomed frying pan along with the thyme and bacon. Cook, stirring, for 4 mins or until the bacon starts to colour and release its fat. Add the garlic, shallot and mushrooms, and cook for 4 mins until the mushrooms have released their moisture. Add the pheasant and season, then deglaze the pan with the sherry or wine. Stir in the crème fraîche, take off the heat and allow to cool completely in the fridge for around 40 mins.
step 2

Unroll the pastry on a lightly floured surface and spoon the cold filling in a long sausage shape along the centre of the pastry. Brush along the sides of the pastry with the egg wash and fold the pastry over the filling, as if making a sausage roll. Press to seal the bottom and sides with a fork. Transfer to a baking sheet lined with baking parchment. Brush with the remaining egg wash and sprinkle with the nigella seeds. Bake in the oven for 25-30 mins, until golden brown and nicely puffed up.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2016

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