Spiced Lamb & Filo Pie Easter Dinner
Simple to create and bursting with flavour, this Spiced Lamb and Filo Pie makes the perfect centre dish for your Easter Sunday lunch. Serve with fresh herbs and vegetables of your choice for an instant family favourite!
Difficulty: Easy
Total Time: 25 minutes
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
1 pack Jus-Rol™ filo pastry sheets
2 tbsp olive oil
2 red onion – chopped
2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp coriander
Salt & black pepper
500g lamb steaks -cut into medium sized dice
1 lemon juice and rind
150g dried apricots roughly chopped
150ml greek style natural yoghurt
50g pinenuts
Handful of Fresh mint, chopped
Handful of Fresh parsley, chopped
50g butter
Equipment:
Frying pan
Shallow ovenproof pie dish
Sharp knife
Pastry Brush
Method:
- Preheat oven to 190ºC ( 170ºC fan assisted) 375ºF/Gas M5.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan and gently sauté the onion together with the spices for 5-7 minutes until onion just beginning to become tender. Add the diced lamb and continue cooking, stirring all the while until the meat is browned on all sides.
- Stir in the lemon juice and rind, the apricots, pine nuts, lastly some yogurt. Mix well, remove from heat and place in the base of a shallow, ovenproof dish and allow to cool.
- To form the lid of the pie, melt the butter and add a few of the remaining chopped herbs, open out the filo pastry and cut the stack of sheets in half across it’s length to give two stacks of rectangular sheets. Lightly brush one piece of filo with the herb butter and ‘scrunch’ it lightly then place on top of the filling. Repeat with remaining pastry and butter until all filling is covered.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 20-25mins until the pastry is golden brown, just before removing from oven, brush again with remaining butter and scatter with remaining chopped herbs, return to oven for 2-3 minutes to just ‘set’ the herbs. Serve hot with vegetables of your choice.
More Delicious Easter Mains
Choosing the right Main can be tricky, which is why we’ve narrowed it down to our favourite Easter dinner ideas to inspire you. Take your pick from our selection of Easter meals, easily put together with our ready-made pastry sheets.
How to Host the Perfect Easter Feast
The best part of hosting an Easter lunch or dinner is the joy of being surrounded by friends, family and good food. These handy hints will help you to create a fun and fuss-free Easter experience for both you and your guests!
Organisation is key. Make sure you have all the food and drink you need in advance to avoid last-minute shopping – a little bit of prep goes a long way! This will help keep things smooth and stress-free on the day.
Check your guests’ dietary requirements and ensure that there are options available for everyone. Our versatile Mains provide ideas for both meat and vegetarian dishes, so you can prepare the perfect Easter Sunday lunch!
Don’t leave your guests empty-handed while you are cooking. For adults, why not hand out a round of drinks and some nibbles while they wait? To keep kids absorbed, we suggest preparing some fruit juice and a couple of fun Easter activities – check out some ideas below!
Enlist some little helpers! If you’re looking to get the kids more involved in the kitchen, why not let them assist with the baking? Our Strawberry and Rhubarb Jam Tarts follow a sweet and simple recipe that’s great for keeping sticky fingers out of trouble, while learning new skills along the way.
Finally: keep it simple! You don’t need to be a master chef in the kitchen to create a delicious Easter dinner the whole family will love. With Jus-Rol, cooking with pastry is fun, easy and leaves you with the time to enjoy your creations with your guests. The perfect recipe for a happy Easter!
Easter Dessert Ideas
What would an Easter dinner be without a delicious dessert to finish? Whether you can’t get enough of that Easter chocolate or fancy something a little lighter, these shortcrust pastry treats have got you covered.
Family-Friendly Easter Fun
Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt
An Easter egg hunt is a great way to keep little ones entertained while you prepare the Easter dinner. Hide a selection of eggs – or other goodies – around the house and challenge them to find every single one! Why not design a treasure map for them to follow, or lay out clues to make the hunting twice as fun?
Egg and Spoon Race
If you have a garden or some open space, why not try an egg and spoon race? Keeping the egg balanced while you run is great fun for all the family, no matter their age! To avoid mess from any accidental breakages, make sure to boil the eggs beforehand.
Egg Decoration
If any of the eggs survive the races, give them a new lease of life with a lick of paint and some googly eyes. Egg decorating is a great way to keep everyone’s hands busy for a quiet hour or two, and you would be amazed at how good an egg can look with the addition of a few sequins or a fetching feather!
Plant Some Spring Flowers
Planting flowers is a wonderful way to pop some colour back into your garden or windowsill. Traditional Easter blooms such as daffodils or hyacinths will look lovely around the house, while spring is the perfect time to get flowers like lilies and freesias into the soil.
Pastry Inspiration
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