Simply delish…don’t we all just love a good pie.  

Hot Pot Butternut Pies by Videhi

Preparation:              10 minutes

Cooking time:            +/- 50 minutes

Serves:                         4

 

30 ml olive oil

¼ tsp mustard seeds

1 sprig curry leaves(10 to 15 leaves)

1 small onion finely chopped

1 cinnamon stick

2 cardamoms

2 cloves

1 tbsp garlic & ginger paste

2-3 green chillies chopped (optional)

1– 2  tbsp chilli powder

½ tbsp coriander powder

½ Tbsp Fennel/somph powder

1 tsp jeera powder

1 small butternut peeled and cubed

2 courgette thinly slice

½ cup peas

2 medium tomatoes pureed

1 tsp plain white flour

125ml water

800g Puff pastry for pot pies or 400g for pastry rolls

100ml full cream milk

Handful chopped fresh coriander leaves

Let’s cook 🙂

  • Heat oil in a sauce pan. Toss in mustard seeds & curry leaves which should pop and splatter.  Add in onion, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves.  Once onions are golden brown add garlic & ginger paste, fry for 30 seconds.  Add in chilli, coriander, fennel, and jeera powder, sauté for a few seconds; quickly toss in butternut, courgette and peas.  Give it a good stir coating all the vegetable with aromatic spices. – cook until vegetables are tender.8-10 minutes.  Add a bit of water in needed.
  • Add tomatoes and cook for another 2 – 5 minutes
  • Mix water and flour together and pour into curry. Cook until gravy thickens.  Curry must cool down before packing into pastry
  • Cut pastry into squares and fill – bringing the 4 corners of pastry together, pinch tightly leaving a small gap in the middle for air to escape. Cut off excess pastry taking care it’s not too thick.
  • Bake in preheated oven for 20-35 minutes at 200 oC until golden brown.
  • Oven temperatures please bake until fully cooked.
  • Alternatively divide 400g of pastry into 4 – spoon in filling, roll into logs and bake for 20-35minutes.