Pastetli

Recipe adapted from about.ch

Ingredients for 6 persons:

• 450 g (1 pound) puff-paste
• 2 tablespoons margarine or butter
• 1 shallot, hacked
• 1 clove of garlic, pressed
• 800 g (1.75 pounds) small mushrooms, cut into four pieces each
• 1 dl (3.4 fl. ounces) white wine
• 180 g (6.3 ounces) half and half
• 1 dl (3.4 fl. ounces) sour cream
• 1 teaspoon curry
• 1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce
• ½ teaspoon paprika, a small amount of nutmeg and cayenne pepper
• salt or spices

Preparation:

1. Bake 6 large heart-shaped pies made out of the puff-paste for about 15 to 20 minutes
2. Heat margarine or butter in a pot
3. Add shallot and clove of garlic, stew
4. Add white wine and mushrooms, mix, cover and cook for about 5 minutes
5. Increase heat, cook in open pot until half of the fluid has gone
6. Add half and half and cream
7. Add curry, worcestershire sauce, paprika, nutmeg, pepper and salt
8. Distribute the filling into the heated pies, serve immediately

Hints: You may replace part of the mushrooms with small pieces of veal.
You may want to prepare the pies in advance, but they have to be heated in the oven before the filling gets added.

**Note – we added chicken to this dish.