Steps to Prepare Jamie Oliver Mince pies

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, mince pies. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mince pies is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Mince pies is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have mince pies using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mince pies:

1. Get cold butter
2. Make ready plain flour
3. Make ready ground almonds
4. Prepare golden caster sugar
5. Get Zest of 1 orange
6. Make ready salt
7. Get egg yolk
8. Prepare cold water
9. Make ready good quality mincemeat
10. Make ready egg
11. Prepare Icing sugar (for dusting - optional)

Instructions to make Mince pies:

1. Rub butter into flour with fingertips until you have a crumbly mixture
2. Add almonds, sugar, orange zest and salt and mix together with fingertips
3. Add egg yolk and water, bring all together and knead into a soft dough
4. Put in a plastic bag and put in the fridge for 30 minutes
5. Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface nice and thin (but still thick enough that it doesn't tear)
6. Cut out 18 holes and place each one into a greased mince pie tin.
7. Spoon mincemeat into each cup (don't overfill or it'll leak over in the oven - a level tsp or a little less should be plenty)
8. Cut out star/Christmas tree/holly shapes from the remaining dough and place on top.
9. Brush each mince pie with the beaten egg (this gives the pies a nice golden glaze) and put in a preheated oven at 180 for 12-15 mins (keep a close eye on them, they cook quickly and burn easily!)
10. After they've cooled, lightly sieve some icing sugar over them if you want to

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