Cheese and onion plait Recipe

Potatoes.

Cheese.

Pastry.

It’s not exactly health food – in fact it’s more of a carb fest, with plenty of cheese thrown in for good measure. But that’s what Christmas is for, no?

My favourite thing about this recipe is that it looks super fancy – serve this up to your family at Christmas and even your great uncle Jim who thinks vegetarians are weird will be impressed – they don’t ever need to know that making the plait shape is actually really easy.

All you need to do is to shape your filling into a log down the middle of your pastry, then make slits at an angle on either side (…the photo below will do a much better job at explaining). Then, alternating from side to side, just fold one strip at a time across…