Every weekend when we were kids, we would make the hour car trip up to my Nan’s place to visit. While it wasn’t the most exciting way to spend the weekend, the highlight was definitely her cooking, especially her homemade Beef and Vegetable Pasties.
This is Nan’s recipe, and while I like to add a few extra herbs and veggies to my pasties, the pastry and basic ingredients are all hers. When it comes to the fillings for your homemade Beef and Vegetable Pasties, you can add as little or as many vegetables as you like. I like to add whatever I’ve got in the fridge along with some frozen peas and corn.
These homemade Beef and Vegetables Pasties are perfect on their own, but taste even better when served with a little homemade tomato sauce or relish. They are also freezer friendly, simply pop your cooked pasties into a freezer bag/container and pop in the freezer until needed.
This recipe makes six good size pasties, however you could certainly make them smaller (a great idea if making them for kids) and simply adjust the cooking time accordingly.
Homemade Beef and Vegetable Pasties
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup 75g plain flour
- 1/2 cup 75g self raising flour
- 110 g of butter - cubed
- 4 tablespoons of water
- pinch of salt
- 500 g of beef mince
- 1 egg
- 1 carrot - grated
- 1/2 cup of frozen peas
- 1 onion - finely grated
- 1 tablespoon of dried mixed herbs
- 1 tablespoon of tomato relish
- 1 teaspoon of onion flakes
- Pinch of salt and pepper to taste
- milk to glaze
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 190 degrees and line a tray with baking paper.
- Sift the plain and self raising flour together in a large bowl and add a pinch of salt.
- Rub in butter until mixture resembles bread crumbs
- Add half of the water and stir through using a knife, continue to add water until dough forms. If your dough is not coming together, just add a little extra water.
- Knead the dough until smooth and then cover it and let it rest in the fridge for 15minutes.
- While the dough is resting, combine the mince, egg, grated carrot, frozen peas and corn, dried mixed herbs, onion flakes and tomato relish in a bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Roll out the pastry dough until it's around 3mm thick and cut into six rounds the size of a saucer and brush edges with a small amount of water to moisten.
- Add filling mixture to centre of each round.
- Bring sides of pastry together at the top to enclose filling. Pinch the pastry together to secure.
- Brush the tops of the homemade Beef and Vegetable Pasties with milk glaze and bake for 35 minutes or until golden and cooked through.
Thermomix Homemade Beef and Vegetable Pasties Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 190 degrees and line a tray with baking paper.
- Place the flour, self raising flour, cold butter (which has been cut into cubes) and a pinch of salt into your Thermomix bowl and mix on speed 6 for 10 seconds or until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add the water and knead for 1 minute. If you find your dough isn’t coming together, add an extra tablespoon of water and knead for a further minute.
- Tip the dough onto a floured bench and lightly knead to form a ball. Cover with cling wrap and pop into the fridge for 15 minutes to rest.
- While your dough is resting, place the carrot (cut into 3cm pieces) and onion (halved) into your Thermomix bowl and blitz for 3 seconds on speed 7 to grate. If you would like your vegetable pieces smaller, blitz for a further 2 -3 seconds.
- Add the beef mince, dried mixed herbs, onion flakes, tomato relish and salt and pepper and mix for 10 seconds on speed 4.
- Add the frozen peas and corn and mix on REVERSE for 10 seconds on speed 4 or until combined.
- Roll out the pastry dough until it’s around 3mm thick and cut into six rounds the size of a saucer and brush edges with a small amount of water to moisten.
- Add filling mixture to centre of each round.
- Bring sides of pastry together at the top to enclose filling. Pinch the pastry together to secure.
- Brush the tops of the homemade Beef and Vegetable Pasties with milk glaze and bake for 35 minutes or until golden and cooked through.
If you love pastry like me, why not also try these yummy homemade Sausage Rolls and Chicken and Vegetable Rolls too?
Lisa @ Chocolate Meets Strawberry says
I’m a big fan of pasties too, Lauren. A number of years ago a friend and I went to London and had the most delicious pasties I’ve ever tasted. I haven’t eaten one since then (and that must have been about 7 years ago!!), and your recipe has reminded me of how seriously delicious they are! 🙂
Lauren says
That sounds like the perfect excuse to make some!
The Hungry Mum says
perfect for the lunchbox! And idea for autumn weather.
Lauren says
They sure are!
Kristy @ Southern In Law says
These look delicious – and so easy to put together too! Yay for food memories!
Swah says
Oh wow these look so tasty! I’ll have to make them for dinner soon x
Lauren says
Thank you, I hope you enjoy them!
Jessica @ Sweetest Menu says
Oh gosh! Visiting here is dangerous when I am hungry. These pasties look awesome! Pasties were my fav as a kid!!
Lauren says
Haha, sorry! They were my favourite too 🙂
Fleur - Our Urban Box says
Memories from my childhood too! I grew up in Broken Hill and the pasties there from McLeods bakery are the BEST! I always bring home a dozen with me!
Lauren says
Ooh yum! Country bakeries are the BEST!
Valerie Stapleton says
McLeods pasties are the best. I lived in Broken Hill too.
Ingrid says
My Nana always made these for us when we visited her too! I can still remember the yummy aromas that used to greet us each and every visit!
Lauren says
It’s such a nanna recipe I think!
Tania| My Kitchen Stories says
How nice to have your grandmothers recipe. it does look like someone in my house would love these.
Lauren says
It’s really lovely, I love making her old recipes.
Karin @ Calm to Conniption says
I think I am on a pastry binge at the moment… and it is so good!! Handed-down recipes are so special. You are very lucky that you have been give this. I think I am going to start digging around to see if there is anything in my family.
Lauren says
Oh me too, I can’t get enough of it which is REALLy not a good thing. Yes, I really love being able to make my Nan’s recipes, it so special.
Nichola says
Hi when you remove these from the freezer for lunchboxes, do u do so the night before or on the morning of the school day? And would you heat it up again or wait for them to defrost in the lunchbox? Thanks
Lauren Matheson says
Hi Nichola, I’d actually heat these up again before sending them to school I think x
Claire says
Hi, Not sure what I did wrong but I def didnt have enough pastry to filling? Thanks so much though they were delicious and wrapped the remainder in puff pastry sheets I had in the freezer, yum x
Lauren Matheson says
Oh sorry you didn’t have enough pastry Claire, Im glad you were able to use the filling though x I’d suggest rolling the pastry a bin thinner next time x