How To Make Vol Au Vents
This is a how-to video showing the viewer How To Make Vol Au Vents (Pastry Cups)! Perfect filled with a nice ragout! theculinaryexchange.com. Vol au Vent is a simple pastry cup where a round of puff pastry is topped with a ring of puff pastry and then baked into a nice stuffable cup which can be filled with just about any filling you like. Filling ideas include creamed chicken like that found in chicken and dumplings. Creamed turkey would work just as well. Here is a Recipe -
Creamed Turkey By The Culinary Exchange
Ingredients
1 lb roasted turkey – dark and white meat mix us best
2 stalks of celery
2 carrot
1/lb small white mushrooms
1 heaping tbsp of flour
2 tbsp of butter
1 cup of turkey or chicken stock or left over jus gravy
1 cup milk
salt and pepper
heavy cream (optional)
Instructions
Clean the mushrooms. If they are large, slice them in half.
Clean the celery and slice the stalks.
Peel the carrots and slice them in rounds.
Chop the turkey into rough cubes
In a medium pot, melt 1 tbsp of butter over medium heat. Add the carrots. Cook 5 minutes.
Add the celery and cook 5 minutes more.
Add the mushrooms. Cook five more minutes.
Add another tbsp of butter. Let the butter melt and cook 1 minute. Sprinkle the flour all over the vegetable mixture. Stir well.
Cook the mixture 2-3 minutes until the flour just starts to brown. Pour the stock and milk into the pan stirring and scraping the bottom of the pan. Stir until all the flour is dissolved.
Bring mixture to a simmer. Add the turkey. As the mixture simmer it will thicken. Simmer 5 minutes.
You can adjust the thickness of the sauce by adding more stock, milk or cream.
Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Ladle over hot biscuits.
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Vol au Vent | Chicken Filling | New Year's Eve | Mauritius | TheTriosKitchen
Hello everyone! Welcome to our channel. In this video, we will show you how to make Vol au Vent with chicken filling easily at home especially for the New Year’s eve. Hope you give this recipe a try & please do share your feedback with us. Enjoy! ????
Ingredients:
You will need pastry dough to make the Vol au vent shells (You will find the recipe on our youtube channel TheTriosKitchen)
Procedure:
1. Spread some flour on the work surface & roll out the puff pastry dough.
2. You can also buy store bought puff pastry or you can also get ready made baked vol au vents shells in supermarkets if you do not have enough time to make them from scratch.
3. Roll the dough till you obtain a thickness of about 1.0 cm.
4. Cut out circles/discs as shown in the video.
5. Place the disc having hole onto the other cut out circular puff pastry disc (without hole).
6. Press a little all around to glue both discs together.
7. Brush little bit of milk onto the puff pastry discs/ vol au vent.
8. Bake in a 180 degree Celsius preheated oven until golden brown & fully baked.
9. Allow Vol au Vent Shells to cool down a little!
10. Cut out the middle part so as to create a space for addition of the chicken filling.
For the Chicken Marination, we need
Ingredients:
Chicken Breast - 160 g
1 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste,
1/2 tsp dried Origano,
1/4 Basil,
1/2 tsp Chilli Powder,
1/2 tsp Pepper Powder
Coriander Powder – 1 tbsp
Salt to taste
Procedure:
1. To the chicken, add ginger garlic paste, the dry spices & mix until chicken pieces are fully coated with the spices.
2. Add salt to taste.
3. If the marinade is too dry, add little bit of water (1-2 tbsp) & mix.
4. You will also need few thyme leaves (1/2 tsp).
5. In a pan, add 2 tbsp of oil, once oil is hot, add in the chicken pieces.
6. Fry on low to medium flame until chicken is fully cooked.
7. Add in the thyme leaves.
8. Once chicken is fully cooked, switch off the flame.
For the Chicken Filling,
Ingredients:
Bechamel/White sauce, (the recipe will be available on our channel theTriosKitchen), I added 1 tsp origano & 1 tbsp grated cheese to the bechamel sauce
Do taste the white sauce if it lacks more salt etc..you may also add spices according to your preference.
We also need; fried chicken pieces & some mozarella/ cheddar cheese grated
Procedure:
1. Add the bechamel sauce to a pan followed by the chicken pieces, stir & keep the heat low to medium.
2. Lastly, add in the grated cheese. Do save some of the grated cheese for later.
3. If the mixture is too thick, do feel free to add 2-3 tbsp of water.
4. Chicken Filling for the Vol au Vent is ready.
5. Switch off the flame.
6. Once the filling has cooled down a little, spoon in some of the chicken filling into the pockets of the baked puff pastry discs.
7. Add some grated cheese on top.
8. Bake the vol au vent in a 180 degree Celsius preheated oven for 10-12 mins until cheese has melted. (Be careful, do not let them burn).
9. Vol au vent with chicken filling is ready!
10. Decorate with some coriander leaves on top (optional step).
Enjoy this yummy starter for your New Year Eve’s Party! :)
Enjoy!!!
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