Pilchard sandwich in puff pastry

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4 servings
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By Food24 November 03 2009
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Ingredients (14)

200.00 g puff pastry
425.00 g pilchards in tomato sauce
10.00 spinach
white sauce
45.00 g butter
45.00 g flour
300.00 ml milk
salt and freshly ground black pepper — to taste
nutmeg — ground, pinch
TOMATO SAUCE (COULIS)
pilchards in tomato sauce — reserve sauce
55.00 ml tomato purée
1.00 garlic — cloves, crushed
5.00 ml flour
125.00 ml wine — white
salt and freshly ground black pepper — to taste
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Method:

1. Steam spinach and drain well. Chop and chill.
WHITE SAUCE
2. Melt the butter, add flour, stir in and allow to sizzle. Slowly add the milk, stirring all the time until it comes to the boil. Season to taste.
3. Add chopped spinach.
4. Drain the pilchards, reserve the juice. Halve each fish carefully into fillets. Spread a thick layer of the creamed spinach on one half of each pilchard and sandwich together with the other half. Chill in the refrigerator.
5. Roll out pastry 3 mm thick. Cut into squares of 12 cm by 15 cm.
6. Arrange pilchard sandwich on pastry square. Fold over pastry to cover fish. Make holes in the pastry to allow steam to escape. Chill again for 5 minutes.
7. Bake the pilchard sandwich in preheated 200 ºC oven for 35 minutes or until golden brown.
TOMATO SAUCE
8. Heat sauce from the can of pilchards and add the tomato purée, wine and crushed garlic. Let it simmer until thick. Season to taste.
GARNISH
Garnish the pastry sandwiches with sliced red and green peppers and serve with a salad or mixed leaves.
Serves 4 as starter or 2 as a meal.



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