Recipe of Jamie Oliver Mince pies

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, mince pies. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mince pies is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Mince pies is something which I have loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Mince pies:

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