Week 2: Recipe 3: Vol-Au-Vents with Minced Meat and Onions

My third dish for the 52 Recipes in a Year challenge are these vol-au-vents. 

Since they are filled with a mixture of minced meat, onions, and bell pepper, they are more sausage rolls than vol-au-vents, but what's in a name? Seasoned with worcestershire sauce and powdered paprika, they're a simple but tasty treat to have for lunch. Recipe below (serves 10).

Ingredients:

• 10 puff pastry sheets of about 10 x 10 cm (about 4 x 4 inch)
• 1.5 onion, shredded
• 1 green bell pepper, shredded
• 3 tbsp worcestershire sauce
• 2 tsp powdered paprika
• 1 whisked egg 
• 300 grams of minced meat
• baking parchment

Directions:

1.  Preheat oven to 200°C or 390°F. 
2. Mix meat, onion, bell pepper, worcestershire sauce, and powdered paprika. 
3. Cut the corners round off the puff pastry sheets. Scoop a bit of the meat mixture onto the center of the sheet and fold. Press the edges together and brush some egg onto the dough. Bake for 25 minutes, turn halfway.

Bon appetit.