Storecupboard cooking: Cheese and bean pasties

We’re having one of those Old Mother Hubbard moments here in the Happy House. As ever, my palatial stocks of dry ingredients are in tip top condition, but we have completely run out of fresh vegetables, meat – anything that would be the basis of a meal. However, from the odds and sods that remain, I managed to put us a quick (but not particularly healthy) lunch. Roll on 3pm so I can go and see what bargains I can pick up from Mr T’s reduced section!!
Cheese and Bean Pasties with Mash
(serves 2)
Ingredients
Pastry:
110g flour
40g butter
cold water to bind, approximately 30ml
pinch of salt
Filling:
Half a tin of baked beans
50g cheese (I used Smoked Cheddar and Wensleydale)
Freshly milled black pepper
Mash:
4 medium potatoes
Pinch of salt
Black pepper, butter and milk or cream to taste!
Method
Preheat the oven to 190’C. Rub the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Add water a bit at a time until you get a smooth pastry, which is still slightly crumbly. Divide the pastry into two and roll out to about 3mm thick. Add about quarter of a tin of baked beans to each pastry, top with grated cheese and black pepper. You could add anything else you wanted at this stage, cooked chicken or sausage, herbs, spices…
Wrap up and seal the edges and then place in the fridge to firm while you chop up the potatoes into small cubes for a quick cooking mash. Put the pasties in the oven for about 15-20 minutes and boil the potatoes. When the potatoes are soft, drain and mash them with a pinch of salt, pepper, butter, milk (I put a bit more cheese in ours!)

Stick the whole lot on a plate and enjoy! Nom!

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  1. Haha this post made me laugh!
    I shall bookmark it for when I have a 'I really can't be bothered to leave the house and shop' day!!

  2. Lo-Lo says:

    Enjoy – they are lovely! Made me tempted to make them myself!

  3. I am really excited about this I never thought of doing it and one of the main things I dislike about pasties is the gravy this is a much better idea than the regular kind I want to make them for my tea today 🙂

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