Pasty

01 / ABOUT THE DISH

About the dish

A pasty is a traditional pastry. It consists of a pastry case that’s filled with desired ingredients and then baked until golden brown. Once baked, the pasty can be served warm, but it can also be enjoyed later when it cools down. Although the most popular and widely known type of pasty is Cornwall’s Cornish pasty, there are many more types of pasty depending on the filling, such as curried potato pasty, scotch egg pasty, cheese and Marmite pasty, and even shepherd’s pie pasties that make the classic dish portable. However, the traditional Cornish pasty is filled with a mixture of beef, onions, potatoes, and swede. In the end, pasty is just a name for the shape, and the pastry can contain a myriad of different ingredients on the inside.