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Pastei

Name: Pastei
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Suriname
Ingredients: 2 sheets (frozen) Puff Pastry; 400g Chicken Thigh; 1 Carrot; 80g Green peas; 100g Mushrooms; 1 Onion; 1 tbsp Capers; 30g Butter; 2 tbsp All-purpose flour; 1 tsp Chicken bouillon; A pinch Nutmeg; 1 Egg; 1 tsp Salt; 300ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Creamy chicken and vegetables baked in pastry — Suriname's celebration chicken pie.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pastei is a Surinamese dish for celebration days: chicken is stewed with carrots, peas, mushrooms, and capers and baked in pastry. It's European cooking from the Dutch colonial era with Creole seasoning added. It's baked in a big pan for birthdays and Christmas and cut into slices.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At Christmas in a Surinamese home, a pie baked in a big round pan is sliced to reveal creamy chicken and vegetables inside.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Puff Pastry 2 sheets (frozen)
Chicken Thigh 400g
Carrot 1
Green peas 80g
Mushrooms 100g
Onion 1
Capers 1 tbsp
Butter 30g
All-purpose flour 2 tbsp
Chicken bouillon 1 tsp
Nutmeg A pinch
Egg 1
Salt 1 tsp
Water 300ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Melt butter in a pot and sauté the onion, bite-size chicken, diced carrots, and mushrooms.
Sprinkle in the flour, add water and stock powder, and simmer 20 minutes until thick.
Add the peas, capers, nutmeg, and salt and let cool.
Line a pan with pastry, fill, cover with another sheet, and seal the edges.
Brush with beaten egg and bake at 200°C for 35 minutes.

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