Recipe: Delicious Pastel Tutup (Indonesian Style Shepherd’s Pie)

Pastel Tutup (Indonesian Style Shepherd’s Pie). Great recipe for Pastel Tutup (Indonesian Style Shepherd's Pie). Pastel Tutup is a well known dish in Indonesia. Pastel means "pie", and tutup means "closed".

Pastel tutup is what they call this shepeherd's pie it in Indonesia. This dish is highly popular, especially among the Javanese community. This is quite different from the pastel ayam (Indonesian Empanadas). You can cook Pastel Tutup (Indonesian Style Shepherd’s Pie) using 23 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pastel Tutup (Indonesian Style Shepherd’s Pie)

1. Prepare of For Mashed Potatoes.
2. Prepare of russet potatoes, steam and mash.
3. Prepare of butter or margarine.
4. You need of milk powder.
5. It's of shredded cheddar cheese.
6. Prepare of Salt, pepper, nutmeg.
7. Prepare of For The Filling.
8. Prepare of butter or margarine.
9. It's of garlic, minced.
10. Prepare of yellow onion, minced.
11. You need of chicken breast, cut cube.
12. Prepare of medium carrot, cut cube.
13. It's of french beans.
14. Prepare of black fungus.
15. It's of glass noodle, boil according to instruction. Set aside.
16. It's of Local celery, chopped.
17. It's of Salt, pepper, nutmeg.
18. Prepare of chicken stock.
19. Prepare of full fat milk.
20. Prepare of Others.
21. You need of eggs, boil and cut in circle shape.
22. You need of shredded cheddar cheese for topping.
23. You need of egg yolks.

This dish was highly influenced by European countries, particulary, the Dutch. Pastel tutup has a similar fillings with chicken pot pie, except it's a lot simpler, less rich, since pot pie uses butter in fillings. The crust on top is not a pie crust like in chicken pot pie, instead pastel tutup has a mashed potatoes as its crust ! Indonesia Shepherd Pie "Pastel Tutup" It's Christmas Eve morning, nothing is better that baking something warming, filling, festive filling that Indonesian Shepherd Pie.

Pastel Tutup (Indonesian Style Shepherd’s Pie) step by step

1. For mashed potatoes. Boil the potatoes, mash it while it is still warm. Add milk powder, butter/margarine, shredded cheese, salt, pepper, nutmeg, to taste. Set aside.
2. For the filling: heat the butter/margarine in a pan, add garlic and onion. Cook until fragrant and turn translucent. Add the chicken, cook until no longer pink. Add carrot, cook until half done, add french bean, black fungus. Continue cooking until all veggies are cooked. Do not cook until too soft. Lastly add the glass noodle, chicken stock and milk. Add salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste. Cook for another few minutes, but do not let the filling become too dry. Leave some gravy/cooking liquid..
3. Cut the eggs. Set aside.
4. Assemble: in a baking pan, put the filling first, continue with the sliced egg and cover it with mashed potatoes..
5. Apply the top of the pie with egg yolk and sprinkle shredded cheese all over the pie..
6. Baked in preheated oven 180 degree celcius for 30-40 minutes until the top of the pie turn to golden brown..
7. Enjoy 😉.

Indonesian put lot of milk inside of the pie filling and loved by the people. Apparently it is a very popular dish amongst the Indonesian in Central Java (I'm from West Java). It has a mix of Chinese and Dutch flavours, very aromatic and comforting. Brushed the top of the casserole with egg yolk. Use fork to make pattern on the potato.