Lamb Paprika Pie with Potato Pastry

Name: Lamb Paprika Pie with Potato Pastry
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: a little milk for brushing; 175 g/6 oz cold mashed potato; 3 teaspoons paprika; 2 rounded tablespoons plain flour; 300 ml/½ pint milk; 300 ml/½ pint soured cream; 175 g/6 oz chestnut mushrooms; 2 large cloves garlic; 15 g/½ oz butter; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 100 g/4 oz plain flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; good pinch of salt; 100 g/4 oz cold butter; 2 rounded teaspoons whole grain mustard; 1 rounded teaspoon caster sugar; 3-4 pinches cayenne pepper; salt; 1 large red pepper; 675 g/1½ lb lamb fillets

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Josceline Dimbleby’s Complete Cookbook

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1997

About

Pies always impress and excite. They offer an element of surprise, rather like opening a present. This potato pastry is a good way to use up leftover mashed potato, and it is also delicious.

Ingredients

675 g/1½ lb lamb fillets
1 large red pepper
1

Main course
Dinner
Pie

Method

Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/gas mark 2. Slice the lamb fillets across at 1.25 cm/½ in inte