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Pâté de Porc à l'Anglaise

A hot pork pie in the classical French style: a pie dish lined with raw ham, layered with sage-and-duxelles-seasoned pork escalopes, sliced potato and onion, capped with short pastry and baked slowly until the potatoes drink up the juices.

  • YieldOne 1.5 litre pie; serves 6
  • Hands-on1 h 15 min
  • Total4 h 24 min
  • Difficulty

Ingredients

Filling

  • 400 graw cured ham (jambon de Bayonne or prosciutto), thinly sliced
  • 600 gboneless pork leg or loin, cut into escalopes
  • to tastesalt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 5 gflat-leaf parsley, chopped
  • 1 gfresh sage, chopped (about 4 leaves)
  • 600 gwaxy potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
  • 100 gonion, finely chopped
  • 150 mlwater

Dry duxelles

  • 200 gbutton mushrooms, very finely chopped
  • 20 gshallot, very finely chopped
  • 15 gunsalted butter

Pâte à foncer

  • 200 gall-purpose flour
  • 100 gunsalted butter, cold, diced
  • 4 gfine salt
  • 1egg yolk
  • 50 mlice water

Glaze

  • 1egg, beaten

Contains

  • Gluten
  • Dairy
  • Egg
  • Birds' eggs (any)
  • Wheat
  • Nightshades (any)
  • Potato (white)
  • Onion family (any)
  • Onion
  • Shallot
  • Sage
  • Parsley
  • Black and white pepper
  • Mushrooms (any)
  • Button, cremini and portobello
  • All mammal meat (alpha-gal)
  • Pork

Taste

  • Sweet
  • Salty
  • Umami / savory
  • Richness / fat
  • Herbal / fresh

Texture

  • Crisp
  • Tender-braised

Equipment

  • Oven
  • Stovetop

Season

  • Fall
  • Winter

Occasion

  • Weekend project

Effort

  • 45–90 min active
  • Over 3 hours total
  • Difficulty 3
  • Leftovers-friendly

Nutrition

  • Calories: high
  • Protein: high
  • Carbs: moderate
  • Fat: high
  • Fiber: moderate
  • Sodium: high

Budget

  • Budget: moderate

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