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Ham hock, cheese & potato pithivier

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Ham hock, cheese & potato pithivier

Name: Ham hock, cheese & potato pithivier
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 800g floury potatoes (such as Maris Piper), cut into 3mm-thick slices; 100g double cream; 1 tbsp wholegrain mustard; 2 x 370g sheets of puff pastry; plain flour for dusting; 2 tbsp cranberry sauce; 250g comté or brie, cut into cubes; 200g shredded ham hock; 1 egg yolk beaten (freeze the extra white to use in another recipe)

Katy Gilhooly

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Serves 8

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Prep: 45 mins

Cook: 35 mins

plus chilling

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Make this domed puff-pastry pie as a Christmas centrepiece. With a crumbly pastry exterior and packed filling oozing with gooey comté, it's a wow dish

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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800g floury potatoes

(such as Maris Piper), cut into 3mm-thick slices
100g double cream
1 tbsp wholegrain mustard
2 x 370g sheets of puff pastry
plain flour

for dusting
2 tbsp cranberry sauce
250g comté

or brie, cut into cubes
200g shredded ham hock
1 egg yolk

beaten (freeze the extra white to use in another recipe)

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Nutrition: Per serving

kcal672
fat44g
saturates23g
carbs46g
sugars4g
fibre4g
protein21g
salt1.7g

Method

step 1

Cook the potato slices in a large pan of boiling salted water for 2-3 mins until just tender. Drain, then spread out over a clean tea towel and leave to steam-dry. Once cool, combine with the cream, mustard and seasoning.
step 2

Heat the oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Unravel one of the puff pastry sheets over a lightly floured surface and roll out so it’s slightly thinner. Cut out a 25cm circle. Spread the cranberry sauce over the pastry disc, then arrange half the potatoes on top in a neat circle. Scatter over the cheese and ham hock, then top with the remaining potatoes, patting the filling into a dome shape.
step 3

Roll the second pastry sheet out until it is 30cm wide, and cut out a 30cm circle. Lift this over the filling and smooth it over, pressing it down at the edge and easing out any air as you go. Crimp the edge together to seal, then cut a small air hole in the top and chill for 20 mins. Can be covered and chilled for up to 24 hrs before glazing and baking.
step 4

Brush the top of the pastry with the beaten egg yolk. Score lines all around the pithivier using the tip of a small sharp knife, starting from the steam hole and curving down to the edge. Bake for 30 mins until the pastry is golden and the filling is hot.

Recipe from Homemade Christmas, Homemade Christmas 2023

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