BBC HomeExplore the BBC
This page was last updated in August 2003We've left it here for reference.More information

26 May 2012
Accessibility help
Text only
CornwallCornwall

BBC Homepage
»BBC Local
Cornwall
Things to do
People & Places
Nature
History
Religion & Ethics
Arts and Culture
BBC Introducing
TV & Radio

Sites near Cornwall

Devon http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon

Related BBC Sites

England
 

Contact Us

Like this page?
Send it to a friend!

 


Anstey's Vegi Style Starry Gazy Pie
The finished product!

BBC Spotlight is running a series on dishes from the South West on Thursday evenings on BBC One from 6.30pm

Here are a couple of recommended recipes for you to try out. Enjoy!

SEE ALSO
Other Cornish Recipes
Meat and Potato Pie and Powder biscuit recipes from Bodmin Moor
A tasty treat from St Merryn
Paul Ripley of 'Ripleys' cooks up a treat. See the recipe and try it for yourself!
WEB LINKS
BBC Spotlight website
Meet the presenters and find out more about the programme.

Anstey's Vegi Style Starry Gazy Pie from Spotlight viewer Jacqui Wilbraham.

Here is her recipe followed by her prize, a meal cooked by Cornish chef Ben Tunnicliffe.

Ingredients

Pastry for 2 individual pies


112g - Plain flour
*55g Butter - can be vegan substitute soya marg
Half tsp - Mustard powder
Pinch of salt and paprika
Water to bind, about 1 tbsp
*Beaten egg for glazing can be vegan substitute soya milk
Sesame seeds for decoration and protein
Sauce
25g - Butter or soya marg
Quarter onion finely grated
Half stick celery thinly sliced
Half carrot grated
1 tomato cut into qtrs
1 stalk rosemary and thyme - leaves removed and finely chopped
Half heaped tsp mustard powder
1 desert spoon whml flour
120ml scrumpy
1 dessertspoon tomato puree
Half tsp yeast extract
Half tsp shoyu
Half pt veg stock


Pie Filling


8oz (225g) parsnip peeled topped tailed cut into chunks.
Half small swede peeled cut into chunks.
4oz (110g) shallots peeled halved.
4oz (110g) plain cut tofu, previously frozen in chunks.
4oz (110g) carrots cut to rounds
4oz (110g) Potatoes cut to rough chunks.
1 tbsp veg oil, salt, pepper.

To serve creamed mashed potato and seasonal greens, plus 8 small broccoli florets to garnish. Note: different vegetables can be used according to season.

Method 1hr

1. Prepare pie filling - preheat oven 220'c / 425'f. Place swede turnip shallots and tofu on baking tray with sprinkling of oil and salt. Roast at top shelf until soft and golden drain off surplus oil - set aside - 10 min.

2. Prepare extra potatoes and greens. Keep in water until required - 5 min.

3. Make sauce in medium saucepan melt butter, add onion, celery, tomatoes and herbs, cook until soft, 5 min. Turn down heat, stir in flour and mustard cook for 3-4 min until roux texture changes to breadcrumbs. Take off heat, stir in cider, tomato puree, yeast extract, shoyu and stock. Return to heat cooked until thickened, blend until smooth, taste, adjust seasoning - Refrigerate.

4. Make pastry, sift flour, salt, mustard and paprika powder into bowl, add butter, rub in to rough crumb. Sprinkle on water mix together with knife then bring together with hands, add more water if necessary - until smooth dough. Put into polythene bag, rest 30min in fridge, remove 10 minutes before using.

5. Assemble pie 20 minutes before service, when ready to bake, preheat oven to gas 7, 425f (220c)

6. Cut pastry slightly larger then pie dish using dish top as guide, cut out 4 V shapes at equal intervals plus four fish shapes to decorate. Fold back V flaps to centre stick to pastry with little water, it makes design of a Celtic Cross - (the pastry lid can be cut in advance and kept chilled until required). While pastry is resting, mix together enough vegetables and sauce to fill pie dishes, then wet edge of dishes with water and place pastry on dish, press lightly to seal, decorate edge with tip of knife and attach fish shapes with a little water to top of pie, brush with egg, sprinkle with sesame seeds, bake 8-10min on baking sheet at centre shelf or until pie is bubbling hot and pastry is golden brown.

7. While pie is cooking, place extra vegetables in pan of hot salted water, steam broccoli and green veg over the top, drain and mash potatoes, keep warm.

8. Serve with a broccoli floret in each opening of pie crust, mashed potato and greens, serve any remaining sauce separately.

The above recipe was the one chosen by judges who tasted a variety of ideas sent in by viewers in the region.

Recipe from the Abbey Restaurant

The winner had the chance to sample a dish prepared by a top chef in Cornwall.

Jacqui (along with members of Spotlight) were treated to Pan fried Turbot, onion and orange confiture, thyme butter sauce prepared by Ben Tunnicliffe of the Abbey Restaurant at Penzance.

Why not try it for yourself! Here is the recipe:

Pan fried Turbot, onion and orange confiture, thyme butter sauce recipe

Sauce

1pt fish stock
quarter pint of double cream
2 oz butter
Teaspoon chopped thyme

Onion and Orange Confiture

3 large onions peeled and finely sliced
1 oz sugar
1 large carrot peeled & cut into matchstick size pieces
1 orange zest removed & cut into fine strips then juiced
4floz white wine vinegar

Potatoes cooked & mashed with salt, pepper and a little olive oil.

First make the onion & orange confiture

Warm the olive oil and add the onions, allow to cook slowly without any colour until translucent.

At this stage increase the heat and add the sugar and allow to caramelise slightly before adding the orange and carrot, cook for a few minutes, again over a low heat.

Then add vinegar and orange juice and cook until moist but not quite all of the liquid has reduced.

Taste and season as required.

To make the sauce reduce the fish stock by approx two thirds by fast boiling. Add the cream and reduce a little further until a sauce consistency.

Taste as you go and season with a little salt and pepper. This can be left now until assembling.

Next heat a frying pan until hot. Add a little olive oil and a knob of butter. Lighly flour and season fish. Fry for two or three minutes on each side depending on the thickness of the fish.

Bring the sauce to a simmer and stir in the butter and thyme.

Serve fish with onion and orange confiture, mashed potato and thyme butter sauce.

And if you are still hungry!

Honey Jelly with raspberries & clotted cream
(serves 6-8 people)

Jelly
300 ml medium dry white wine
225ml clear honey
seeds from one vanilla pod
Sheets of bronze leaf gelatine
500 grams of raspberries
Juice and zest from one orange
25ml Cointreau
40 grams caster sugar

Soak gelatine in cold water. Gently bring the honey wine and vanilla to a gentle simmer for two to three minutes. Remove from the heat and take off any scrum from the top.

Squeeze excess water from gelatine and dissolve in honey and wine. Allow to cool slightly.

Pour into bowls or glasses and refrigerate until setting slightly.

Drop five or six raspberries into each bowl so that they are suspended in the jelly. Liquidise 115 grams of raspberries with orange zest, sugar and cointreau.

Marinade remaining raspberries in the cointreau.

Serve jelly with marinated raspberries and clotted cream!

Try out more recipes from Cornwall

line
Top | Uncovered Index | Home
Also in this section
Music
Read the latest music reviews

David White's mini site

Calling all unsigned acts
News Message Board Film Contact Us
BBC Cornwall
Phoenix Wharf, Truro, Cornwall
TR1 1UA
01872 275421
cornwall@bbc.co.uk



About the BBC | Help | Terms of Use | Privacy & Cookies Policy