Flavoured Lamb Meat In Puff Pastry

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 14 ounces puff pastry (1 x 400g roll)
• 1 lb lamb sausage, skins removed (500 g)
• 6 ounces bacon, chopped (175 g)
• 2 ounces button mushrooms, cleaned, chopped (60 g)
• 1 orange, rind only, roughly grated, avoid pith (or 1 lemon)
• 1 teaspoon dried sage (or use 1 tblsp fresh, finely chopped)
• 1 small onion, finely chopped
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper (or to taste)
• salt, to taste, and may not be necessary
• 1 egg, beaten

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 400 deg f/200 deg celsius.
• 2 roll out the pastry to a rectangle of about 11 x 7 inches (28 x 18 cm) keep cold.
• 3 in a processor or by hand mix the lamb sausage meat, chopped bacon, mushrooms, grated citrus rind, sage, onion and pepper. (as the sausage and bacon are slightly salty, go easy on extra salt).
• 4 mold the meat mixture into a fat sausage shape, to fit down the centre of the pastry. if you have leftover pastry, press out shapes and decorate the roll.
• 5 beat the egg, paint the edges of the puff pastry, then fold the pastry round the meat and seal the seam.
• 6 put on an oven tin, and bake for 15 minutes, then turn heat down to 350 deg f/180 deg c, and bake another 40 - 45 minutes.