Lamb & Port Pies
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Recipe type: Lunch Dish
 
This needs to be started the day before.
Ingredients
Meat
  • 1 shoulder roast of mutton or hogget
  • ½ cup port
  • 2 small stalks rosemary, leaves only
  • 3 tsp beef stock powder
  • ground pepperGravy
  • 1 Tbsp macadamia oil or any other good oil
  • 1 carrot, large chunks
  • 1 stick celery, large pieces
  • 1 brown onion, peeled and halved
  • 2 sheets puff pastry
  • double batch shortcrust pastry (I use the Basic Cookbook Recipe for TM5)
  • handful mint leaves
  • 2 tsp apple cider vinegar
Method
Meat
  1. Brown meat in a little oil in a large deep frying pan.
  2. Place into slow cooker bowl.
  3. Place rosemary leaves, port and beef stock into Thermomix bowl.
  4. Process on speed 6 for 5 seconds.
  5. Pour over the meat.
  6. Cook for 6 hours. Meanwhile, make pastry and refrigerate.
  7. Remove and allow to cool enough to handle. Reserve the liquid in the fridge to set the fat.
  8. Remove meat from bones and cut away fat. Refrigerate until needed.
Gravy
  1. Place onion, carrot and celery into Thermomix bowl and chop on speed 5 for 3 seconds, Scrape down.
  2. Add oil and saute for 4 minutes, Varoma, speed 1.
  3. Add about about 3 Tbsp flour and mix on speed 2, reverse.
  4. Add reserved stock, skimmed of fat, ACV and mint leaves.
  5. Cook for 10 minutes, 100, speed 2, reverse.
  6. Add more time if necessary.
  7. Thicken further with cornflour if necessary.
  8. Add to chopped meat. I didn't use all the meat from the roast, reserving some for sandwiches.
  9. Cool in fridge while preparing pastry for pie tins or pie maker.
  10. Place filling into pastry bases, top with puff pastry, brush with milk and bake as normal. I use the Air Fryer, cooking for 5 minutes on 200, then 6 minutes on 185. For oven baking, 5 - 10 minutes on 200, then reduce to 180 and cook for a further 10 minutes.
  11. Remove to a wire rack to cool or serve straight away.
Notes
You need to make sure the gravy is very thick. Mine wasn't quite thick enough and the filling poured out when the pie was cut.
You can use all puff pastry if using an electric pie maker.
If you're keen on making your own puff pastry, here's the recipe for Rough Puff Pastry
Recipe by ThermoGourmand at https://thermogourmand.com.au/index.php/2015/07/14/home-made-pies/