Rough Puff Pastry + Spiced Ground Beef = Kitchen Magic

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If you enjoy the videos we make; buy us a cup of tea: https://ko-fi.com/glenandfriendscooking Welcome back to the kitchen — and welcome back to What Was On Sale at the Grocery Store. Today I’m playing with rough puff pastry and turning a great grocery store find — $5 a pound ground beef — into something unexpectedly fancy. No recipe, no plan, just a method: spiced meat wrapped in flaky pastry and into the oven to see what happens. This experiment starts with ground beef, onion, garlic, egg, and a Middle Eastern–style Turkish spice blend, mixed by hand and wrapped in homemade rough puff pastry. Every culture has some version of meat wrapped in dough — sausage rolls, patties, hand pies — and this is my slightly chaotic, very tasty take on it. I try folding the pastry into little bundles (spoiler: they fall apart), bake them anyway, and discover that the rendered beef fat crisps the bottom of the pastry beautifully. The result? Deep savoury flavour, ultra-crispy rough puff, and something that would absolutely disappear at a dinner party. If you’ve ever been intimidated by rough puff pastry, or felt like you “needed a recipe” to cook, this one’s for you. Get in the kitchen, experiment, trust your nose, and figure out what you like. 👉 Rough puff pastry recipe video is elsewhere on the channel — https://youtu.be/imgnxUKTHsY Thanks for stopping by, and I’ll see you again soon. Ingredients: 500g ground meat 1 egg 1 onion, finely chopped 2 cloves garlic, crushed 30 mL (2 Tbsp)  spice mix of your choice Salt to taste Flour for dusting 1 recipe of our Rough Puff pastry OR 1 x 500g sheet all-butter puff pastry Egg wash if desired Method: Pre-heat oven to 160ºC Fan (325ºF Fan) In a large bowl, mix the ground meat with egg, onion, garlic and spice mix. Work the meat into an evenly mixed paste. Divide the mixture into 12 balls. Roll the pastry out on a lightly floured work surface and cut 12 squares from each sheet. Each square should be roughly 10x10cm.Put a meat ball in the centre of the pastry and gather the opposite corners of pastry and bring them over the top. Pinching the pastry to seal it over the meat. Transfer onto baking sheets, and brush with an egg wash. Bake for about 25 minutes, or until the pastry is crisp and golden brown. More info about Hope Air: https://hopeair.ca/ 2026 Hope Air Donation: http://www.hopeair.ca/glen Here is the link to our Apron: https://searchandrescuedenim.com/products/s-r-x-glen-friends-chef-apron?country=IO&variant=50865649877152 https://searchandrescuedenim.com/GLENANDFRIENDSCOOKING Discount code to be used at checkout: GLENANDFRIENDSCOOKING Buy us a cup of tea: https://ko-fi.com/glenandfriendscooking Help us out with a PayPal donation: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=T4FPGUQABAUTE Join this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsU15yvILBmnHPeAf4SFVaQ/join This channel is nothing without you our viewers! Thanks for watching the Old Cookbook Show and our Historical Cooking. #LeGourmetTV #GlenAndFriendsCooking Check out our Aviation and Flying Channel: https://www.youtube.com/glenshangar