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Pork with apple and chestnut pie recipe



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Ingredients


Tourte ardennaise

Pork, apple and chestnut pie recipe

To serve 6

225g / 8ozs of chestnuts

225g / 8ozs of cox apples

200g / 7ozs of lean pork finely minced

100ml of Madeira

salt and pepper

2 eggs

15g of butter

225g / 8ozs short crust pastry

1 20cm / 8½ ins loose based flan tin



Heat the oven to 190c or 375f gas 5 butter the flan tin.

Cook and shell the chestnuts and break into pieces. Peel and core then finely chop the apples.

Mix in with the chestnuts, pork and Madeira salt and pepper and one egg.

Roll out the pastry about a 1/4 ins thick and line the flan tin. Prick the base with a fork then spread the filling over the base.

Cover with the remaining pastry seal the edges brush with beaten egg.

Cut a small hole in in the middle to allow the steam to escape.

Bake for 45mins and then cool for 10mins serve warm


Pork, apple and chestnut pie


pork with apples recipe


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