Adapted from an original recipe by Gizzie Erskine
Ingredients:
- 2 leeks
- Butter
- Plain flour
- Milk
- Gravy
- Parmasan
- Turkey
- Ham
- Parsley
- Lemon
- Nutmeg
- Puff pastry
Method:
- Heat oven to 220 degrees centigrade
- Chop and fry two leeks in butter
- Make a roux with 30g butter/30g flour
- Whisk together with 200ml milk and 300ml Turkey gravy or chicken stock
- Cook at a summer for 5 minutes until thickened
- Add a handful of grated Parmesan cheese (sounds crazy but adds roundness and umami), 4tbsp chopped parsley, the zest and juice 1/2 lemon, a grating of nutmeg and seasoning.
- Mix with the leeks 300g and chopped leftover turkey/chicken and 250g leftover ham
- Let cool.
- Add to a pie dish
- Roll out puff pastry, cut out a pastry top for your dish (just bigger than)
- Use the rest of the pastry to cut out the spelling of any message you want on your pie
- Put top on dish and press down with fork at the edge
- Using milk as glue place your message and any other decoration on the pie
- Brush whole top with milk or a whisked egg
- Prick a couple of small holes to let the air escape when cooking
- Put in the over for 25/35 mins until pastry is cooked through
- Enjoy with mash/green beans/baked beans/champagne/whatever and whoever you want!
