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December 22, 2015

Homemade Mince Pies

We can’t get enough of Jamie Oliver in our house! His Christmas cooking programmes are practically on repeat, and I thought it was about time I had a go at his ‘new stylee’ mince pies.

For this simple recipe you only need:

  • Ready rolled puff pastry
  • Ready rolled filo pastry
  • Melted butter
  • Shaved almonds
  • Icing sugar
  • Mince meat

homemade mince pies

Start by arranging 2 sheets of filo pastry together so that they hang approx 2 inches over the edge of a cupcake baking tray.

Paint the sheets of filo pastry with melted butter all over, but be quite quick as once the pastry gets to room temperature it can be more difficult to handle.

buttering filo pastry

Turning the filo pastry upside down, lay onto your baking sheet buttered side down, which will prevent the pastry sticking.

Gently push the filo pastry into the holes of the tray with a scrap ball of pastry, crinkling up the edges as you go.

filo pastry

On a ready rolled sheet of puff pastry, spread the mince meat across the whole surface and add a sprinkling of shaved almonds for texture.

You can also add clementine zest and other dried fruit.

mince meat

Then roll it up into a sausage, and cut into individual slices approx 2cm thick.

mince meat rolls

Lay each slice into the filo pastry cups on the baking tray

mince pies

Brush all over with more melted butter,

Jamie Oliver mince pies

and add icing sugar and a few more shaved almonds on top.

icing sugar

Bake in a preheated oven at 180’C for 30 minutes.

Once golden brown, remove from oven.
Place a board on top of the pies while still inside the baking tray, turn upside down and they should slip out easily while still warm.

If left in the tray to cool they may stick and then be difficult to remove later (this happened with my second batch!)

baking

Pull each pie apart by the crispy filo edges, creating a rustic finish.

Sprinkle with icing sugar, and then enjoy with a cup of tea!

mince pies

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