How to Prepare Ultimate Pork Pie

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pork pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Pork Pie is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Pork Pie is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pork pie using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pork Pie:

1. Prepare 800 grams pork shoulder finely diced
2. Make ready 209 grams smoked bacon lardons
3. Prepare 600 grams pork belly finely diced
4. Prepare Heaped tsp of salt and pepper
5. Get Heaped tsp of paprika (optional)
6. Prepare 1 heaped tbsp of mixed herbs
7. Make ready The Pastry
8. Make ready 200 grams lard
9. Get 200 ml cold water
10. Get 575 grams plain flour
11. Get 1 beaten egg for washing the pastry
12. Take For the jelly
13. Get 6 gelatine leaves soaked in cold water for 5 mins
14. Take 300 ml chicken stock (a couple of cubes)

Instructions to make Pork Pie:

1. Set your oven to 190 degrees. Dice the meat and then place in a large bowl, add the mixed herbs, plenty of salt and pepper and the paprika (optional). Leave to marinate preferably over night!
2. In a pan set it on a high heat add the water and the lard, bring to the boil. In a large bowl add the flour, then pour into flour the lard and water. Bring it together with a spatula so it forms a dough! Kneed it then cut off a third, this is for the lid. Butter a 20 cm spring formed tin. Put the large portion of the dough in the tin. With your knuckles push out the pliable dough, up around the sides! Next add the meat pushing it down well.
3. Roll out the last bit of dough roughly into a round, place it on top of the pie, crimping the edges as you go! Make sure you leave a whole in the top, this is for the gelatine. Wash the pie with egg. Place in the oven at 190 degrees for 30 mins.
4. Next lower the oven and cook for another 1 hour 50 minutes. Keep an eye on the dough if it’s looking a bit dark cover it with tin foil leave it to cook. Lift out and let cook.
5. With the soaked gelatine leaves, add to hot stock storing well! Once the pie and stock have cooled, use a funnel to pour in the hole bit bye but. Place in the fridge!! Then tuck in once the gelatine has set!! Delicious 😋

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