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Beef Pasties

Beef Pasties

AUTHORCassie

POSTEDOctober 10, 2019

Delicious beef pasties made with savoury mince and light, golden puff pastry are a dinner the whole family will love. These pasties are bursting with flavour, packed with vegetables and are quick and easy to prepare. They freeze well, so you can make a big batch and reheat on busy nights. The best beef pastie you'll try!

Beef Pasties are a quick and easy dinner that this whole family will love. Using my delicious savoury mince recipe and some light, golden and flaky puff pastry, you'll have irresistible pasties on the table in no time.

This isn't your grandmother's pastie recipe. For starters, my pasties have flavour. Yep - I'm going there!

Traditional pasties are notoriously flavourless. What would you expect from putting plain raw mince and chopped vegetables in some pastry?

This recipe uses my savoury mince as the filling and it really shines in pasties, plus it's a great way to repurpose leftovers! Just try and stop at one.

Why you'll love this recipe...

Full of flavour.
Quick and easy.
A great way to repurpose leftover savoury mince.

What's in a pastie?

Traditional Cornish pasties are pretty simple. They generally use beef mince / ground beef, onion, swede and potato.

Of course there's plenty of variations on this. Some recipes put raw ingredients directly into pastry and cook in the oven. Others recommend cooking first, then placing in the pastry.

I personally find traditional pasties a bit flavourless, so I use a savoury mince that's cooked first and packed with flavour.

What pastry are pasties made from?

Pasties can be made from either puff pastry or shortcut pastry. I personally prefer puffy pastry as I love how light and flaky it is, but the beauty of this recipe is you can really use either! I use store-bought frozen puff pastry for ease.

Ingredients

Making these pasties are so simple. I make them using my savoury mince recipe as a base, which is so quick and easy to prepare. Here's what you'll need (full measurements listed in the printable recipe card below)...

For the Savoury Mince

Olive Oil
Brown / Yellow Onion
Garlic
Carrot
Celery
Potato
Beef Mince / Ground Beef
Worcestershire Sauce
All Purpose Flour
Beef Stock
Tomato Paste
Frozen Peas

For the Pasties

Puff Pastry
Egg

How to Make Beef Pasties - Step by Step

Cook Savoury Mince following the instructions in this post.

Preheat the oven to 180C / 350F and a line two baking trays with baking paper or silicone mats.

Remove puff pastry sheets from the freezer, seperate and allow to thaw partially. Use a round cookie cutter or a wide mouth mug to cut 4 rounds into each pastry sheet.

Hand cutting out rounds in a puff pastry sheet.

Spoon a tablespoon or so of savoury mince into the middle of each pastry round, brush the edges with the egg wash then bring the edges together to form a semi-circle. Crimp the edges together with your fingers to seal the filling inside.

puff pastry rounds on a baking tray with savoury mince in the middle.

Place pasties upright on the baking trays, brush each pastie with the egg wash and bake in the oven for 20 minutes, or until golden, puffy and cooked through.

Can you freeze pasties?

Absolutely. Once cooled, cooked pasties can be frozen in an airtight container for up to 3 months.

How do you reheat cooked pasties?

Preheat the oven to 180C / 350F, and place frozen pasties on a lined baking tray. Bake for 10 minutes, or until warmed through.

You can microwave them but I don't recommend this as the pastry tends to go soggy.

TOP TIPS

You can cook the savoury mince ahead of time to use in this recipe.
If you're making the savoury mince at the same time, allow the savoury mince to cool before packing into the pastry.
Feel free to use shortcut pastry instead of puff pastry.

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RECIPE

Beef Pasties

Prep Time

10 minutes

Cook Time

20 minutes

Total Time

30 minutes

Made with leftover Savoury Mince, these delicious Beef Pasties are a quick and easy dinner the whole family will love.

4.5 Stars (252 Reviews)

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For the Savoury Mince

1 tbsp Olive Oil

1 Brown / Yellow Onion

1 Carrot

2 Celery Stalks

2 Garlic Cloves

1 tbsp All Purpose / Plain Flour

1 Potato

1.5 cups Beef Stock

2 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce

2 tbsp Tomato Paste

1/4 cup Frozen Peas

For the Pasties

3 sheets Frozen Puff Pastry

1 egg

Instructions

Cook Savoury Mince following the instructions in this post.

Preheat the oven to 180C / 350F and a line two baking trays with baking paper or silicone mats.

Remove puff pastry sheets from the freezer, seperate and allow to thaw partially.

Use a round cookie cutter or a wide mouth mug to cut 4 rounds into each pastry sheet.

Place pasties upright on the baking trays, and bake in the oven for 20 minutes, or until golden, puffy and cooked through.

Notes

Can you freeze pasties?

Absolutely. Once cooled, cooked pasties can be frozen in an airtight container for up to 3 months.

How do you reheat cooked pasties?

Preheat the oven to 180C / 350F, and place frozen pasties on a lined baking tray. Bake for 10 minutes, or until warmed through.

You can microwave them but I don't recommend this as the pastry tends to go soggy.

Tips for Cooking Beef Pasties

You can cook the savoury mince ahead of time to use in this recipe.

If you're making the savoury mince at the same time, allow the savoury mince to cool before packing into the pastry.
Feel free to use shortcut pastry instead of puff pastry.

Did you make this? Tell us about it!

Nutrition Facts

Servings:12

Serving Size:1

Amount Per Serving:

Calories

217kcal

Carbohydrates

10g

Protein

15g

Fat

13g

Saturated Fat

Polyunsaturated Fat

Cholesterol

58mg

Sodium

168mg

Fiber

Sugar

Yum! My husband is welsh and loves pasties. He really enjoyed these. Have tried making them with home made pastry. So tough they had to be cut with an electric knife! My fault, pastry is my Nemesis. Love cooking, quite experienced but put pastry recipe in front of me and I usually fall to the floor crying. Lol

Cassie

August 18, 2020

Getting the tick of approval from a Welshman is an honour! I'm with you on the pastry front. I'm absolutely hopeless at making my own. I'm just so glad frozen pastry exists haha.

Julie

September 10, 2020

If you think traditional pasties are flavourless, you haven't actually tried a proper traditional Cornish Pasty.

Cassie

September 10, 2020

I'm glad you like the traditional kind Julie 🙂 The only traditional Cornish Pasty recipes I've seen are simply meat, veg, salt and pepper which I haven't found to be overly flavourful but I'm sure there are places you can buy them that add things that make them more delicious. Hope you enjoy the recipe!

Sandy

October 12, 2020

These are not Pasties! Change the name. These look good,but they are not pasties. I grew up with pasties,I make pasties.. Anyone who has actually eaten the original pasties knows these are not pasties.

Cassie

October 12, 2020

Hey Sandy, I can see you feel very passionately about traditional pasties. If you actually read the post you'd know I make no claim that these are traditional and am very upfront that these are a different version of pasties. There's plenty of traditional cornish pasty recipes online which I'm sure you'll find better suited to your taste. Have a lovely day!

Avril

November 1, 2020

I tried these with great trepidation ( hopeless with pastry) but the turned out DELICIOUS Really enjoyed. I used beef mince with all the veg. Yum!

Cassie

November 2, 2020

I'm SO happy to hear that Avril!

Daymon Jones

November 7, 2020

After it took a bit to find out what a brown onion was (yellow in the states) I put these together. I did change the recipe by adding cayenne pepper and a dash of tabasco pepper sauce. They were absolutely delicious,

They reminded me of the Cajun Meat Pies I grew up eating.

Cassie

November 7, 2020

Hey Daymon! Oh that's awesome to hear. Love the idea of adding some spice to these - I need to find out more about these cajun meat pies! They sound delicious.

Lori

November 14, 2020

Hi Cassie, I make a savory beef dish very near to yours. But instead of beef broth, I use 1 bottle Guinness and 1 Tablespoon concentrated beef paste then simmer on low for 45-60 minutes. Adds an extra dimension of flavor that is so amazing!!

Cassie

November 15, 2020

Love those suggestions Lori - will give them a go next time 🙂

Cleeo2

July 9, 2021

I made the meat mixture/mince and it smelled just like my beef stew. So, I was not sure how I would like it in a pastry. I assembled half of them and popped them in the oven before realizing that I forgot the peas! I finished the remaining by adding a few peas atop the mince and folding them up. When first pealess batch was done I sampled one and to my surprise found it delectable! Puff pastry, where have you been all my life? Then, I sampled one from the second batch with peas. Surprisingly, I preferred without peas, due to the sweetness they added. Thank you for the recipe. Its a keeper!

Cath

May 11, 2022

Recipe appears to be very tasty - I'll try...I am of Danish decent and I always thought they were from Denmark. Family story goes that the men were in western US as lumberjacks & they took Pasties for lunch - they heated them up on the machinery engines and were happy - from My grandmother (I'm 76 yo so this has a long history in my family)

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