A friend of mine has recently been diagnosed with a similar allergy to mine and has had to give up wheat as well. They were coming over this past weekend and I thought why not try to serve appetizers that we can eat as well?So after a jaunt to my favourite w/g free store i found this pastry mixture complete with instructions that I thought I must try! The pastry dough was prepared as most doughs are, and I refrigerated it overnight.
The beef mixture was up first. It had beef, onion, green peppers, tomato's, chopped raisins, green olives, salt, Worcester sauce, hot pepper sauce, and a hard boiled egg.
Next up was the chicken mixture. Not quite as complex, it had chicken, onion, garlic, turmeric, salt and cheese.
The next step was to roll out the dough and cut out 3 inch circles and place a tablespoon of filling in the centre, brush the seams with egg and pinch it together. Apparently a fairly routine procedure, but I'd never really cooked with pastry before so I admit that my inexperience didn't help much.
Once I managed to get the hang of it... onto the cookie sheet they went and then I brushed the tops with beaten egg as well.
The end result. My hubbie asked me why I was making perogies...sigh...
It was quite possibly the flakiest pastry I've ever eaten in my life! The only thing I messed up was I didn't roll the pastry out thin enough so I ended up with way more pastry than filling. They were tasty, but next time I would definitely roll it thinner so i could taste the filling.
However I can't really complain as most of them disappeared quite quickly...but playing wii bowling can create quite an appetite!
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