Mince Pie Tartlets with Pork

Medium

Servings

36 tartlets

Ingredients
Everything you'll need to make this recipe
1

400 g white granulated sugar

2

300 ml wine

3

250 ml cider

4

1 orange, zested and juiced

5

1 lemon, zested and juiced

6

¼ teaspoon ground mace

7

¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg

8

1 cinnamon stick

9

1 vanilla pod

10

1 kg fruit mince mixture

11

800 g cored and sliced apples (from about 12 large apples)s

12

2 packets shortcrust pastry dough

13

1 kg lean pork mince

14

100 g butter

Instructions
Step-by-step guide to making this recipe
1

Preheat oven to 150 °C (300 °F).

2

In a pot, bring the sugar, wine, cider, orange, and lemon juice to a simmer. Add mace, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Split the vanilla pod and scrape seeds into pot. Discard vanilla pod.

3

Stir in sliced apples and fruit mix.

4

Grease the muffin tins, and line with pastry dough to make tartlet cases. Trim to fit.

5

Place cases into oven, and bake until lightly golden. Remove from oven and let cool.

6

Melt butter in a pan. Add minced pork, and sauté until browned.

7

Remove cinnamon stick from the fruit mixture, and mix in the pork.

8

Using a tablespoon, fill tartlet cases with the filling—it will probably be mounded.

9

If desired, trim with excess pastry.

10

Bake each tray at 120 °C (250 °F) for half an hour.