Turkey & Cranberry Pie
We love finding innovative new ways to use up our leftovers.
Packed with turkey leftovers, bacon, pork mince and chicken broth, this recipe from the nose-to-tail experts at Coombe Farm is a great way to make sure none of your meat ingredients goes to waste.
This pie uses gelatine & beef dripping to form a hot water crust, a strong pastry that's perfect for pies with heavy fillings.
Ingredients:
Serves 7
For the filling
- 2 onions, finely sliced
- 1/2 bunch fresh sage
- 250g bacon lardons
- 500g of turkey left overs
- 1 whole nutmeg
- 500g pork mince
- 2 tbsp english mustard
- 2 tbsp wholegrain mustard
- 1 tbsp ground white pepper
- 4 tbsp worcestershire sauce
- 500g cranberries
- 2 tbsp port
- 5 cloves
- 1 orange
For the pastry
- 800g plain flour
- 300g beef dripping or tallow
- 1 large egg
- For the jelly
- 3 leaves of gelatine
- 330ml chicken broth or stock
Method:
Preheat your oven to 180°C.
Warm a frying pan with a little oil and gently fry your onion until soft, sweet and sticky. Pick the leaves from your sage and finely chop. Add to your pan along with your bacon lardons. Once cooked, move the mixture to a large bowl and leave to cool.
Add your shredded turkey to your bowl before finely grating over half of your nutmeg. Add the remainder of your filling ingredients and mix together well.
To make your pastry, place your flour in a large bowl. Warm your dripping along with 300ml of water in a small pan over a medium heat for 10 minutes, until melted. Bring to the boil and add to your flour. Leave until cool enough to handle before kneading until smooth. Cut off 1/4 and leave to one side, this will make your lid later.
Press your pastry evenly around a loose bottomed pie tin until its roughly 1cm thick. Place the tin on a baking tray and fill with the cooled filling.
Roll out the top to the same thickness and place on top, pinching the sides to seal as you go. Pierce a hole in the center of the lid.
Cook for 2 hours and leave to cool thoroughly.
While your pie cooks, make your jelly by soaking your gelatine in cool water until soft. Reduce your stock to just 50 ml or so and melt in your gelatine. Pour into your pie until it can take no more liquid.
Allow it to cool once more before slicing.