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🍽️ Lucky Pig Made of Puff Pastry
685 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 450 g puff pastry (frozen)
- 2 onions
- 1 clove of garlic
- 2 tbsp oil
- 250 g mushrooms
- 2 tbsp chopped parsley
- 40 g chopped pistachios
- 500 g seasoned minced pork
- 2 eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- salt
- pepper (from the mill)
- 1 black olive
Instructions
- 1. Let the puff pastry thaw at room temperature.
- 2. Clean the mushrooms and chop them finely.
- 3. Peel the onions and garlic and chop them finely as well.
- 4. Heat oil in a pan and sauté the onions and garlic until translucent.
- 5. Add the chopped mushrooms to the pan and cook the mixture for 10 minutes.
- 6. Remove the pan from the heat and let the mushroom mixture cool down briefly.
- 7. Mix the mushroom mixture with parsley, pistachios, minced pork, and eggs in a bowl.
- 8. Season the filling with salt and pepper to taste.
- 9. Cut a pig shape out of cardboard that is roughly the size of your baking sheet.
- 10. Roll out the thawed puff pastry on a floured surface.
- 11. Cut two pig shapes out of the dough using the cardboard template as a guide.
- 12. Line a baking sheet with baking paper.
- 13. Place one of the dough pig shapes onto the prepared baking sheet.
- 14. Spread the meat and mushroom filling evenly over the dough, but leave a small border around the outer edge.
- 15. Brush the free dough border with a little water.
- 16. Carefully place the second dough pig shape over the filling.
- 17. Press the edges of the two dough layers together firmly to seal them.
- 18. Whisk one egg yolk with one tablespoon of water.
- 19. Brush the entire surface of the dough with the egg yolk and water mixture.
- 20. Press an olive into the dough to form an eye.
- 21. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
- 22. Place the lucky pig into the preheated oven.
- 23. Bake the pig for 40 to 45 minutes until golden brown.
- 24. Brush the pig two to three times during the baking time with the remaining egg yolk mixture.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 685
- Protein: 33 g · Fett/Fat: 48 g · Carbs: 28 g