Mini Mushroom Pies Food

MINI CREAMY MUSHROOM PIES

Steps:

• Heat the butter and oil in a frying pan. Add the onion and fry until soft. Stir in the garlic and mushrooms, season and cook for 5 mins until the mushrooms are soft. Stir in the parsley and cream. Remove from the heat and allow to cool.
• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Grease a 6-hole muffin tin with butter, then line each hole with a long thin strip of baking parchment. Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface and stamp out 6 x 10 cm circles. Press a circle into each hole to line. Roll out the remaining pastry (you may need to re-roll trimmings) and stamp out 6 x 8cm circles.
• Divide the mushroom mix between the pies. Brush the pastry edges with a little egg, top each with a pastry lid and carefully press the pastry edges together to seal.
• Brush with the remaining egg and sprinkle with caraway seeds. Bake for 25-30 mins until golden. Allow to cool in the tin slightly before serving, or cool on a wire rack and keep in airtight containers for up to 1 day. Reheat before serving.

MINI MUSHROOM PIES

Steps:

• Cut the onion, garlic and spring onions.
• Melt the butter in a large frying pan and add the onions and garlic.
• Fry gently until soft, then chop the celery sticks and mushrooms and fry together on a low to medium heat until tender.
• Mushrooms have a high water content, once all the water has been released and absorbed, add the milk and flour and mix well with a wooden spoon until you get a creamy texture.
• Remove from the heat, season well with salt, black pepper and dill.
• Set aside to cool completely.
• Dust some flour onto the working surface and place the ready rolled puff pastry. Use a round cookie cutter or a glass to cut 12 rounds. 6 will be needed for the bottom and 6 for the top of the pies. I found that the bottom ones is best to be slightly larger than the ones that form the top.
• Line each of the lie maker moulds with one of the larger pastry round.
• Fill each pie with the mushroom mixture, then top each pie with the smaller pastry lids.
• Securely close the pie maker and switch it on.
• Cook for about 10 minutes, then switch the pie maker off and carefully remove the pies.
• Serve hot.

MINI BACON AND MUSHROOM PIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F
• Cut the puff pastry sheets into 35 rounds, using a 2-inch fluted pastry cutter, and fill 2 small muffin tins with the rounds. Top each muffin tin with a second muffin tin to secure the puff pastry and form pie shells.
• Bake until the pie shells are golden brown and cooked through, 15 to 17 minutes. Let cool.
• Meanwhile, coat a large saute pan with olive oil over medium heat and cook the bacon until brown and crispy and the fat has rendered out. Transfer to paper towels to drain.
• Add the leeks into the pan, sprinkle with salt and sweat until wilted. Stir in the mushrooms, sprinkle with more salt and saute until soft. Carefully pour in the whiskey and cook until the pan is basically dry. Remove from the heat and stir in the creme fraiche, followed by the bacon.
• Fill the pie shells, and serve garnished with chives.