Lamb Pot Pie With Saffron Pastry

Pot pies are such wonderful comfort food, chicken or beef or vegetables, they are all good. A savory pie with flaky pastry and a thick rich filling is a mealtime favorite. For a little creative touch I infused the water for the pastry with a generous pinch of saffron; The lamb stew is full of tender chunks of lamb, onion, carrot, parsnip, sweet potato and peas and the flaky saffron infused pastry is delicious when combined with the stew. This recipe made 4 small but deep pot pies. I used 2 small ramekins and 2 small coquettes.

The pies are delicious, baking them you can smell the fragrant saffron and lamb stew, it’s wonderful and the saffron in the pastry is subtle but you know it’s there. I am bringing these little gems to a party, I pretty much start my weekend on Thursday because I must go to Throwback Thursday…