Cranberry & pear pies

Name: Cranberry & pear pies
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 350 grams plain flour; 85 grams ground almonds; 140 grams caster sugar, plus extra to decorate; 225 grams butter, chopped; 1 egg, beaten; 400 grams cranberries, fresh or frozen; 50 grams caster sugar; 25 grams cornflour; 325 grams orange curd (we used Waitrose Jaffa orange curd); 450 grams just-ripe pears, peeled, cored and chopped

Cranberry & pear pies might be just the dessert you are searching for. Watching your figure? This lacto ovo vegetarian recipe has 607 calories, 8g of protein, and 29g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 13% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 8. If you have caster sugar, cornflour, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour. Pear And Cranberry Individual Pies, Pear-Cranberry Hand Pies, and Pear-Cranberry Hand Pies are very similar to this recipe.

Instructions

To make the pastry, tip the flour, almonds and sugar into a food processor then pulse in the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Pulse in up to 5 tbsp cold water until mixture comes together as a dough. Wrap in cling film and chill for 1 hr.

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Breadcrumbs

Almonds

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Water

Wrap

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Food Processor

To make the filling, tip the cranberries into a pan with the sugar and cornflour and stir well. Stir in the orange curd, then cook for a few mins until thickened.

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Cranberries

Corn Starch

Orange

Sugar

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Frying Pan

Add the pears and cook a few mins more, stirring frequently. Cool.

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Pear

Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5 with a large baking sheet inside.

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Baking Sheet

Oven

Roll out the pastry and use to line 8 x 10cm individual Yorkshire pudding tins (or 10cm individual tart tins). Spoon in the cooled filling.

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Roll

Roll out the rest of the dough and stamp out 4 x 9cm rounds to make lids.

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Dough

Roll

Cut out the centres with a medium star cutter.

Carefully cover half the pies with the pastry lids and place the stars on a baking tray. Crimp the edges of each pie (if using straight edged tins) with your finger and thumb, brush the pies and stars with the egg then dredge with sugar.

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Sugar

Egg

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Baking Pan

Bake the stars for 8-10 mins and the pies for 15-20 mins until golden. Dredge with more sugar once out of the oven.

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Sugar

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Oven

Place a star on the open pies and serve with cream or ice cream.

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Ice Cream

Cream

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Servings:

350grams

plain flour 85grams

ground almonds 140grams

caster sugar, plus extra to decorate 225grams

butter, chopped 1

egg, beaten 400grams

cranberries, fresh or frozen 50grams

caster sugar 25grams

cornflour 325grams

orange curd (we used Waitrose Jaffa orange curd)450grams

just-ripe pears, peeled, cored and chopped

Recommended wine: Lambrusco Dolce, Late Harvest Riesling, Vin Santo

Pie works really well with Lambrusco Dolce, Late Harvest Riesling, and Vin Santo. These wines are all sweet, which is important since wine should usually be sweeter than the food you're pairing with it. One wine you could try is Snake River Late Harvest Riesling. It has 5 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 16 dollars.