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Any spices/ingredients to make my pasties better?

weirdichi

weirdichi

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I'm making pasties tonight and want to jazz it up a bit more than just salt and pepper. Here are a few ideas I was throwing around to make it a bit different:

-use cellophane noodles and make it more like a Vietnamese eggroll filling
-replace diced potatoes with fried diced tofu
-add some Thai curry paste to the filling
-add some wood or ear mushrooms to the filling

Currently the filling is ground beef, diced potatoes, diced carrots, diced onions, and diced celery. Any other spices or ingredients I could use in the filling?

And in case you don't know what a pasty is...

Pasty wiki
 
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Looks like an empanada.

Since you're going all Asian, why not add some Chinese sausage.. though I'm not sure how it'd go with the curry.
 
curry, onion, garlic, ground beef, mung bean vermicelli. cook the vermicelli first, then stir fry with curry, onion, garlic and ground beef. Use that as stuffing.
 
bignateyk said:
Won't that hurt her nipples if you put spices on the pasties?
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I came here specifically to post this, and you already did. We are now mortal enemies.

Also, rosemary will give something like that a nice aromatic flavor, especially if the filling has beef or pork. If you're going poultry, thyme and sage may work better.
 
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blasphemy!

noodles in a pastie! yuck.

half shredded or ground beef, half your choice bulk sausage
parsnips or potatoes
carrots
rutabaga
onion
salt and pepper

mushrooms would be good, more herbs would also be good. parsnips and rutabaga have quite a lot of flavor to add.
 
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M0oG0oGaiPan said:
how about cumin powder
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Just make sure you go with the Indian variety. It's different than cumin powder found in hispanic cooking. Most of the time it's combined with tumeric and curry powder for dishes with Indian flavor profiles.

Because you're thinking about Thai curry, you could perhaps make a dipping sauce using a little bit of cocunut milk, lemongrass and curry (I suggest red curry for color). If you want the cocunut milk flavor in the Pasty, I suggest combining it with the cooked rice and allowing it to simmer/combine in a skillet to remove some of the moisture.
 
What about a meat that's not beef? IMO lamb and pork have really good flavours for this kind of thing.

Also, not sure about the tofu. If you fry it a bit beforehand it can have a nice texture and the crust can give some flavour, but the point of tofu is it's quite bland taste-wise.
 
Another thought...you could slice/fry/mash/fry some plantains and sprinkle curry on those before adding them to the pasty.

That would give you some sweetness to offset the curry powder.
 
Sweet Potatoes, Sour Cream, herbs.

With a meat filling sometimes we add soy and sesame as a marinade before cooking. It is like a sweet barbeque taste. Maybe add some garlic and green onions to the marinade. Wild Sesame leaves has a unique taste also. Very aromatic.
 
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The Jamaican version of those Pasty's is fvcking awesome. Not sure how they make it and too lazy to look it up, But holy fvck they are delicious! (has beef and onion for sure, then an awesome mix of spices)
 
BurnItDwn said:
The Jamaican version of those Pasty's is fvcking awesome. Not sure how they make it and too lazy to look it up, But holy fvck they are delicious! (has beef and onion for sure, then an awesome mix of spices)
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There's a Jamaican place nearby that has them. They indeed are delicious. They call them "meat pies" and sell em for $2.50 a pop.
 
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Imported said:
There's a Jamaican place nearby that has them. They indeed are delicious. They call them "meat pies" and sell em for $2.50 a pop.
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Yes, meat pies! I've had them in Jamaica, in Evanston IL, and once when I was visiting a friend in SC and I took him for Jamaican food since he'd never had it before. Unfortunatly, there's no place like that super close to my home (Evanston is like an hour and a half or so during normal non-rush hour traffic.)

That said, dollar tree sometimes sells frozen jamaican meat pies. They are fvcking spicy and tasty, but, they don't get the texture right.
 
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