Plaited Meatloaf

I am doing one of my own dishes today it is a meatloaf plaited in puff pastry, (Poor mans Beef Wellington) you can use your own recipe for the meat loaf and can mix the meats I.e. pork and beef or chicken and pork. The puff pastry adds value to the minced beef and serve without potatoes. Again I am using Texco Angus mince with 5% fat only and the frozen puff pastry, very few people make their own fresh puff pastry, it takes a long time to make and is difficult.
This dish can be prepared in advance and frozen, thawed and cooked at a later date.

Ingredients
500g Minced beef
1 Medium sized diced onion
150g Lardons of bacon (bacon strips)
150g diced mushrooms
100g breadcrumbs
1 Egg
1 Tablespoon tomato ketchup
100g Grated carrot
1 Sheet to Jus Roll puff pastry
1 beaten egg
Salt / Pepper

Method
Sweat off the onion, mushroom and bacon
Add to the minced beef
Add in the carrot,tomato ketchup, carrot, breadcrumbs and egg
Season, mix all the ingredients together to a paste
Place the sheet of pastry on a table
Place the meat down the centre of the pastry
With a sharp knife cut strips at a slant at the side of the pastry
Fold the strips of pastry over the meat, to a form plait
Place on to a oven tray
Brush with egg wash
Place into a preheated oven 175c
Cook for 45 mins
Remove from oven and allow to set 5 mins
Slice to the required size
Serve with gravy or a sauce of your choice