Chicken & Vegetable Mornay Pasties - Real Recipes from Mums

A great way to get more veggies into little and big kids alike, these mornay pasties are creamy and cheesy and delicious hot or cold

Ingredients (makes 10 Pasties)

500g Ingham's Diced chicken breast
1/2 cup Peas, cooked
1/2 cup Corn, cooked
1/2 cup Carrot, cooked and diced small
1/4 small Red onion, diced finely
3/4 cup Grated tasty cheese
3 TBS Butter
1/4 cup Plain flour
1 1/2 cups Milk
5 sheets Frozen puff pastry, thawed
Salt & Pepper
Paprika (to taste)
Finely chopped parsley (to taste)
2 eggs beaten
Sesame seeds (optional)

Method

Cook the chicken pieces in a little oil and then when almost cooked, add in the onion and continue to cook for a few more minutes until the onions have softened and chicken is cooked through. remove from heat and set aside
In another sauce pan, melt the butter. once melted, add the flour, stirring with a wire whisk.
When blended, add in the milk bit by bit while stirring continually with the whisk until all the milk is in and the sauce has no lumps and has thickened.
Add in the cheese and allow to melt through the sauce, then remove from heat and stir in the herbs, salt and pepper, all vegetables and the chicken. Set aside
Cut circles out of the pastry by cutting with a knife around a small bowl (I used a cereal bowl and got 2 circles from each piece of pastry)
Put some of the chicken and vegetable mornay mixture on half of each circle, leaving a 1cm border around the edge and being careful not to over fill.
Carefully fold the top of the pastry over to form a pastie shape, and seal the edges by pressing down with a fork. Transfer to a baking tray lined with baking paper, and brush tops with the beaten egg. Add the sesame seeds now if you wish to.
Bake in a moderate oven for approximately 15-25 minutes or until golden in colour and puffed up.
Serve with a salad or eat on their own - either way they are good!

Notes

With the little bits of pastry left you can make smaller pasties if you have mixture left over by cutting around a cup to get the smaller circle. Or alternatively, you can make one big pie with the filling instead of individual pasties. Another way to serve this is to just have the mornay on its own for dinner with some rice. More/different veggies can be added if you wish. This is a versatile dish :)

23 Comments

- - mom160270 said
  - 23 Sep 2024
    10:07 pm
These would be great for picnics.

- - cassy26 said
  - 02 Sep 2022
    8:48 am
Oh yum. These look delicious. I’m sure my whole family would love them.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 15 Apr 2019
    7:17 pm
I love when I see a pastie with sesame seeds looks lovely would love to give this recipe a try tha ks so much

- - mom183717 said
  - 09 Mar 2019
    2:07 pm
These look a little too time consuming for me!

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 31 Dec 2018
    11:41 pm
pasties are perfect on a cold day and I love that these are chicken they sound lovely!

- - mom62624 said
  - 27 Nov 2018
    7:55 am
A great recipe for pasties, thanks.

- - youngoldlady said
  - 20 Nov 2018
    12:40 am
Sorry forgot to say thank you for providing this.

- - youngoldlady said
  - 20 Nov 2018
    12:38 am
Love that you suggest how to use the mixture in different ways.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 05 Nov 2018
    10:26 pm
I love vegetable patties but this looks so much better thanks for sharing

- - mom81879 said
  - 04 Sep 2018
    10:55 am
Oh yum my mouth is watering just reading through this recipe. Printed out and added to this weeks dinner menu

- - mom63821 said
  - 27 Aug 2018
    9:58 am
thanks for this, my family love everything wrapped in pastry

- - mom62527 said
  - 18 Aug 2018
    2:32 pm
These look and sound delicious my children would definitely love eating these. The pastry looks nice and crispy too, yum.

- - taynik46 said
  - 18 Aug 2018
    9:33 am
I haven’t had a pastie for such a long time, and yours look so tasty! – thank you for sharing your recipe, I am very excited to give this a try – thank you
- mom93821 replied
  
  19 Aug 2018 , 10:52 am
  We eat a lot of pasties – they are good for getting lots of veggies into everyone.
- - mom93821 said
  - 18 Aug 2018
    5:43 am
I love a good pastie and this recipe sounds tasty and the pasties in the photo look oh so delicious – the pastry looks so flaky and good.

- - nealsq said
  - 17 Aug 2018
    11:24 pm
oh yum! Pasties are the best type of finger food!!

- - nadine_hill said
  - 17 Aug 2018
    4:12 pm
Looks delicious – A great recipe and as you say, very versatile!

- - mom297125 said
  - 16 Aug 2018
    8:31 pm
What a fantastic recipe. Yummo. Sounds delicious

- - mom112217 said
  - 16 Aug 2018
    5:05 pm
Another fantastic recipe,the pasties look delicious!

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 16 Aug 2018
    2:26 pm
Yum yum delicious food and great presentation

- - mom90758 said
  - 15 Aug 2018
    5:46 pm
You are a professional cook, I must say. I really hope you will win with the Ingham’s competition. You are presenting wonderful recipes!! Well done!!
- Mum2archer replied
  
  15 Aug 2018 , 8:15 pm
  Aww thank you. Cooking (and eating lol) is a passion of mine. I love how a few different ingredients that are quite boring on their own can be made into something amazing and exciting. Thank you for the compliment, if my food makes people happy, then I’m happy x
  - mom90758 replied
    
    16 Aug 2018 , 12:43 pm
    
    You can see your passion for food through your recipes. A wonderful way to make life’s better.