What do the get if you create a fusion between a classic Polish dish, a classic Cornish dish and a classic Anglicised Chinese dish? Pastrogi with special fried rice obviously! For those don’t have the same sort of mental health issues as us that is a crossed between a Pasty and a Pierogi!
As far as we know this is a first – An invention – An innovation – A monstrosity…. Take you pick!
We didn’t really weigh the ingredients as such. For the pastry you are looking for a workably sticky dough consistency, add a little extra Gram flour if the dough feels too wet or a little extra milk if it feels too dry.
Pork mince
Soy Sauce
Salt & Pepper
Dried Dill
Chilli flakes
Garlic Salt
Onion Salt
Ingredients for the pastry:-
1 Egg
Milk
Plain (Gluten free in our case) flour (¾ of the flour content)
Gram flour (¼ of the flour content)
Salt & Pepper
½ tsp Xanthum Gum
1 tsp Dried Dill
Method:-
(1) Mix the filling ingredients and set aside.
(2) Mix the pastry ingredients and adjust the consistency so that you have a workable dough.
(3) Roll the pastry on a floured surface and cut out circles about 6cm across.
(4) add filling to each Pastrogi close to form a mini Pasty shaped parcel and use a little Milk to seal the join.
(5) Shallow fry to brown all sides.
(6) Place in a preheated oven at 180C for 20 minutes.
We had a DIY special fried Rice with ours. But the Pastrogi would work equally well cold for a pack-up or cold tea.
This started out as a bit of a joke as we had a giant Yorkshire Pudding spare. We hadn't seen that one of the major supermarkets were offering something similar. We think ours looks better, but we might be a bit biased....
Ingredients:-
1 Giant Yorkshire Pudding, cooled
1 Onion, sliced
2 cloves of Garlic, grated
½ a Red Pepper, sliced
Cured Sausage of your choice – We used smoked Polish Sausage
A jar of Pizza sauce
Mozzarella Cheese, grated
Mixed dried herbs
Method:-
(1) Spread the Pizza sauce over the inside of the giant Yorkshire Pudding and sprinkle the garlic.
(2) Sprinkle a thin layer of Mozzarella.
(3) Add the Onion, Red Pepper and Sausage.
(4) Top with the grated Mozzarella and sprinkle with mixed herbs.
(5) Bake at the top of the oven at 180C for 20 minutes or until the cheese has melted and browned slightly.
The ingredients & Method for the Gluten Free Yorkshire Puddings are here