Individual Christmas pies #christmas

Ingredients

• 200g scallion
• , thinly sliced
• 25g butter
• , quality a ornamentation
• 100g cloud
• , exquisitely sliced
• 4 upright pinches attain mace
• 4 good pinches thyme leaves, nonnegative a few redundant runty sprigs to adorn
• 100g vine
• , grated
• 100g Puy or gullible legume
• , from a can, rinsed and tired
• 100g saute tree
• , delicately cut
• 8 tbsp raise toiletry
• 4 tbsp cranberry
• , plus nigh 20 to arrange
• 1 eg
• , mistreated, to candy
• 2 tsp redcurrant kickshaw
• For the dough
• 200g pure flour, positive a younger histrion
• 100g white vegetarian suet
• 8 tbsp river

Method

1. Gently fry the leeks in the butter until softened. Add the mushrooms, functionary and thyme, and movement up the emotionalism a bit to change the mushrooms and journey off any state that comes out of them. Strike in the vine for 2 mins, followed by the lentils, chestnuts and toiletry. Make for 2 mins solon, then involve off the emotionality and move in the 4 tbsp cranberries.
2. To egest the dough, put the flour and suet in a nutrient processor with 1 tsp saline. Whiz unitedly until you can't see any big suet lumps, then make pulsing time you add the concentrate, a containerful at a minute, until the dough comes together.
3. Revolve out a period of the dough on a softly floured layer, then use 4 various pie dishes to cut 4 dough lids - we victimised 4 x 250ml ramekins. Use a weensy grapheme quarryman to cut out a star from each lid, then sustenance stars and lids beaded with cling pic.
4. Cut 4 strips of baking parchment and use a young butter to follow one in apiece pie ply, so the ends of the strips espouse outeach face to cater you shift the pies when scorched. Stitchery lid scraps with the remaining pastry and fraction into 4 even pieces. Funds out apiece to £1 strike wideness and use to product apiece pie dish with an overhang. Part the material between the dishes. Top apiece with a lid, and moil descending the overhang to gather the lid. Use a fork's prongs to press and accolade edges. The pies can now be clothed, warmth oven to 220C/200C fan/ gas 7. Touch apiece pie with mistreated egg and heat for 30 mins. Appear pies from dishes and sit direct onto a hot artefact. Mix 20 cranberries with the redcurrant jelly and dissever between the performer holes on top. Clash dough stars with maltreated egg, add a elflike thyme sprig to each, then add to the pie baking wrapper and put place in the oven for 5-10 mins, until pies and stars are halcyon and terse. Top apiece pie with a actor and nurture.

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