Hi Food Tubers, I am gonna show you one of the most beautiful, classic Irish recipes,
so much so that it would have Michael Flatley riverdancing under the dinner table. Bacon
and cabbage pie is top of my list for a brisk spring evening. It's cheap to make and so
simple; great for a family midweek meal. It starts off by boiling some cabbage. I'm using
savoy cabbage here but you can use whatever cabbage you have. You just need to take off
the outer leaves and we're gonna shred it up. Roughly chop up a head of cabbage and
plunge into boiling salted water. Chop up an onion and fry in some melted butter.
Season with sea salt and ground black pepper. I've got my onions frying off and now it's time
to drain the cabbage.
In my pot we've got the onions and the butter beautifully caramelising
down, now what we're gonna do is make a roux so I'm adding about a tablespoon or two in
here and you just need to whisk it through together until you have a nice paste. Now
a roux sounds fancy but it's a simple mixture of butter and flour that you can use to thicken
any sauce or stew. You need to cook out that flour until you've get that kind of smell
of almost baked pastry and once you've got that smell we're gonna add in some liquid
stock and we're gonna add in a little bit of milk until we have a beautiful white sauce.
Pour in some beef stock and whisk until smooth then add in a good glug of cream to finish
it off. When you're making roux don't panic just constantly stir and you will get a beautiful,
smooth consistency at the end just like this one. It should be nice and creamy and those
little flecks of onion are gonna add a wonderful sweetness in here. Add in a teaspoon of English
mustard and season with sea salt and ground black pepper. Now that the white sauce is
seasoned I'm gonna add in the ham and I've just chopped it into nice, thick chunks. We're
gonna add it straight to the hot white sauce and then we're gonna add in the cabbage. I'm
using thick, chunky ham fillet from my local butcher. You can use bacon but for a full,
salty flavour you can't beat it. Remove from the heat and tumble into a casserole pot.
Now that might already look good enough to eat but I'm gonna go one step further and
I'm gonna bake it with a beautiful puff pastry lid so I'm gonna grab my puff pastry now.
When you're making this bacon and cabbage pie you can do this with short crust pastry
but personally, for me, the best thing about this is when you cook this in the oven and
you cut through that beautiful layers of flaky pastry and you get into that beautiful, savoury
bacon and cabbage mixture. Absolutely gorgeous. So I'm gonna roll out my puff pastry and then
we're gonna cut out a circle and then cover this. To save on time I'm using pastry from
a packet but if you're feeling adventurous Jamie's got a great little video to show you
how to make your own. Click on the link below to see it now. Brush the sides of the casserole
pot with beaten egg. Lay the puff pastry over the top of the pot, making sure to push into
the sides. So now you don't have to be too careful about this but, just using a knife,
cut the pastry off leaving a little lip the whole way around. Now that has to be one of
my favourite noises in the kitchen; the sound of a knife cutting the pastry off, I love it.
Using a fork press the pastry against the sides and brush with more beaten egg.
Once that top is completely egg washed it's gonna go really nice and golden in the oven
but to make sure that it doesn't seep over the sides I'm just gonna poke a little hole in
the top to allow the steam to escape.
Now this goes into the oven at 180°C for about
25-30 minutes until the puff pastry has puffed up and become nice and golden.
Check this out! This is what a bacon and cabbage pie should look like. Beautiful layers of puff
pastry, nice and golden on top and underneath there you've got this beautiful savoury mix
of that bacon and cabbage. All that's left to do is tuck in so I'm gonna serve this up
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