Air-Fryer New Zealand Lamb & Kumara Pie Parcels

Grand Tour Recipe

Air-Fryer New Zealand Lamb & Kumara Pie Parcels

Make Air-Fryer New Zealand Lamb & Kumara Pie Parcels with measured UK ingredients, practical air-fryer timings and bold Grand Tour flavour.

Lamb and kumara make a very New Zealand pie filling: savoury mince, sweet orange potato and plenty of rosemary tucked under flaky pastry. It is familiar comfort food with a clear local accent.

Cooking the filling first keeps the puff pastry crisp in the air fryer. Individual parcels give you a high ratio of browned pastry to rich lamb, which is the correct mathematics for a pie.

Air-Fryer New Zealand Lamb & Kumara Pie Parcels
Air-Fryer New Zealand Lamb & Kumara Pie Parcels preparation stage

You’ll Need

For the Filling
500g lamb mince
1 small onion, finely diced
300g kumara or sweet potato, cut into 1cm cubes
1 garlic clove, finely grated
1 tsp chopped rosemary
1 tbsp tomato puree
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
100ml lamb stock
½ tsp sea salt
½ tsp black pepper

For the Parcels
2 x 320g sheets ready-rolled puff pastry
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp sesame seeds

Optional but Dangerous
Tomato relish
Extra gravy
A cold New Zealand lager

Method

Place the lamb, onion and kumara in a heatproof dish.

Air fry at 195°C for 9 minutes, breaking up the lamb twice.

Stir in the garlic, rosemary, tomato puree, Worcestershire sauce and stock.

Air fry for 6-8 minutes until thick and the kumara is tender, then cool.

Cut eight 15cm squares from the puff pastry.

Add a mound of filling, fold into triangles and crimp the edges firmly.

Chill for 15 minutes while you preheat the air fryer to 190°C.

Brush with beaten egg and scatter with sesame seeds.

Air fry in batches for 10-13 minutes until puffed and deep gold.

Rest for 4 minutes before serving with tomato relish.

Lad Tip: The filling must be thick enough to sit on the spoon before it goes near pastry. Loose gravy belongs beside a pie, inside a parcel it becomes an escape plan.

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