Brats 'n Cheddar Pies
Brats 'n Cheddar Pies

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, brats 'n cheddar pies. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Brats 'n Cheddar Pies is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Brats 'n Cheddar Pies is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have brats 'n cheddar pies using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Brats 'n Cheddar Pies:
  1. Take For the filling
  2. Make ready 4 bratwurst sausages
  3. Make ready 2 red peppers, finely chopped
  4. Take 1 white onion, finely chopped
  5. Get 1/2 (400 g) can chopped plum tomatoes
  6. Get 150 g mature Cheddar cheese, grated
  7. Make ready 1 teaspoon garlic granules
  8. Take 1-2 tablespoons English mustard powder
  9. Get to taste salt and pepper
  10. Take For the hot crust pastry
  11. Make ready 400 g plain flour
  12. Get 80 g strong white plain flour
  13. Prepare 80 g unsalted butter
  14. Get 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  15. Prepare 200 ml boiling water
  16. Get 100 g lard, melted
  17. Make ready 1 beaten egg for glazing
Steps to make Brats 'n Cheddar Pies:
  1. Pre-heat your oven to 220 C / Gas 7. Have a 12 hole muffin or 8 pork pie tins ready (no need to grease it).
  2. Cook your bratwursts. I grill mine but you can do them in the frying pan. Remove from the pan. Gently fry off the peppers and onions in a pan just to soften them and add the tomatoes. Put them into a large bowl and put to one side. Finely chop up the bratwurst and add them to the peppers, onions and tomatoes. Add the cheese into this mixture, stir in the garlic granules, mustard powder and season with salt and pepper. Put all this to one side until you are ready to fill your pies.
  3. To make the pastry, add both flours to a large bowl and rub in the butter. Add the salt to the boiling water so that it dissolves. Add the melted lard into the boiling water/salt and then pour this into the flour mixture. Initially, because it will be hot, mix this with a spoon so that the pastry starts to form. Once cool enough take the dough out of the bowl and transfer to a lightly floured surface. Work the dough into a ball.
  4. Roll it out to a thickness of around 1cm and then cut into circles of around 10cm, enough to fit each “well” of the muffin tin. Press these into the muffin tins and then cut out another 12 circles of around 8cm for the lids of the pies.
  5. Fill each pie case with around 2 to 3 tablespoons of the filling but be careful not to overfill, you don’t want it to burst through the lid during baking. Add your lids and crimp the edges to the body of the pies. Make a hole in the top of each pie to let steam escape during baking. Finally brush some of the beaten egg over the top of each pie so that you get that lovely golden finish when they are cooked.
  6. Pop them in the oven and bake for 50 minutes.
  7. Remove each pie from the muffin tin asap and transfer to wire tray for cooling.

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