Chicken and Tomato Smiles
Recipe by Sally Brown and Kate Morris. Makes 4
This should take about 45 mins
You will need:
- 250g short crust pastry
- 50g cooked chicken
- 2 pinches paprika
- 4 cherry tomatoes
- Work mat
- Weighing scales
- Mixing bowl
- Scissors
- Cup
- Flour dredger
- Rolling pin
- Teaspoon
- Fork
- Pastry brush
- Dessert spoon
- Baking tray and baking paper
- Cookie cutter (about 10cm)
- Oven gloves (adult use only)
Remember to ask a Grown-up for help.
What to do:
Step 1
Before making, wash your hands and put an apron on. Weigh or measure all of the ingredients and ask a grown up to pre-heat an oven to 180°C (fan) /200°C / gas mark 6.
Step 2
Rip and tear the cooked chicken into small pieces and put in the mixing bowl.
Step 3
Use the scissors to snip the tomatoes in a cup until they pop and add them to the mixing bowl of chicken.
Step 4
Using your pinchy parrot fingers, add two pinches of paprika to the mixing bowl and stir with the dessert spoon. Use the spoon to draw a line down the middle of the mixture, turn the bowl around and draw a second line so that you have four equal portions. Put to one side.
Step 5
Sprinkle flour over the work mat using the flour dredger and place the short crust pastry on top. Use a rolling pin to roll out the pastry until you can cut out four circles with the cookie cutter. You can save any leftover pastry for another recipe.
Step 6
Use a pastry brush to dab water around the edges of the circles - this will help the edges stick together later. Then spoon the four portions of mixture into the middle of each of the pastry circles.
Step 7
Finally, fold the pastry over the mixture to hide the filling and pinch the edges together to seal the Chicken and Tomato Smiles. Put them on a baking tray and dab a little more water on top using the pastry brush. You can also make holes with the fork on the top.
Step 8
Ask a grown up to put them in a pre-heated oven for 12-15 minutes or until they’re golden and piping hot in the middle. Allow to cool a little before eating or eat cold.
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