These individual pies are quick to prepare, packed with spicy sausage and butternut squash, then topped with a ready-rolled puff pastry lid
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:15 mins
- Cook:50 mins
- Easy
- Serves 4
Ingredients
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 2 red onions, chopped
- 175g chorizo, skin removed, sliced
- 300g butternut squash, peeled and cut into cubes
- 400g can chickpeas
- 200g bag spinach
- 140g crème fraîche
- 320g puff pastry sheet
- 1 egg, beaten
Method
- STEP 1
Heat the oil in a large pan, add the onions and cook for a few mins until soft, then add the chorizo. Stir around the pan for a few more mins until the chorizo leaks some of its oils, then add the squash and 100ml water. Cover with a lid and leave to cook for 10-15 mins until the squash is just cooked through.
- STEP 2
Add the chickpeas with any liquid from the can, the spinach and some seasoning. Stir, then cover with a lid and simmer for 1-2 mins until the spinach has wilted. Stir in the crème fraîche and bubble for 3-4 mins, adding a splash of water if the sauce looks too thick.
- STEP 3
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Divide the filling between 4 pie dishes. Unroll the pastry and cut out 4 lids, large enough to cover the pies. Brush the edge of each dish with a little beaten egg, then put a pastry lid on top and brush this with egg too. Poke a hole in the top of each pie. Bake on a tray for 25 mins until the lids are puffed and golden.
