Meat Pies Recipe

A meat pie is a pie with a filling of meat and often other savory ingredients. They are popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ghana, Nigeria, Europe, New Zealand, Canada, Zimbabwe and South Africa.


Tasty Meat Pie Recipe
Meat Pies Recipe - foodtastify

Ingredients: 


For beef sauce -

  • Beef (minced) : 1 pound

  • Tomato (chopped) : 400 gram

  • Carrot (medium, diced) : 1 piece

  • Green bell pepper (medium, diced) : 1 piece

  • Garlic clove (minced) : 3 pieces

  • Ground black pepper : 1 teaspoon

  • Scotch bonnet pepper (chopped) : 1 tablespoon

  • Oregano (dried) : 1 teaspoon

  • Onion (medium, diced) : 1 piece

  • Olive Oil : 2 tablespoons

  • Salt : 1 teaspoon


For dough - 

  • All-purpose flour : 2 cups 

  • Milk : ¼ cup

  • Margarine : 1 cup

  • Butter (unsalted) : 100 gram

  • Egg : 1 piece + 1 piece (for egg wash)

  • Nutmeg : 1 teaspoon

  • Black pepper : 1 teaspoon

  • White pepper : 1 teaspoon

  • Baking powder : 1 teaspoon

  • Salt : 1 teaspoon


Instructions: 

  1. Heat olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat.

  2. Add diced onion, garlic and stir until translucent.

  3. Add minced beef, oregano, black pepper and salt. Stir and let it cook for 4 minutes.

  4. Add the chopped tomatoes, scotch bonnet pepper, carrots and diced green bell pepper.

  5. Adjust salt, stir and let simmer for 3 minutes.

  6. Take off heat and set aside.

  7. In a bowl, mix the flour with nutmeg, black pepper, white pepper, baking powder and salt.

  8. Add the margarine, butter and rub in to get a crumble-like texture.

  9. Add egg and milk and mix into a dough.

  10. Flour a flat surface, roll the dough and cut out into your desired shape.

  11. Fill each cut with the minced beef sauce and seal with the tip of a spoon.

  12. Place on a parchment lined baking sheet and brush the top with egg wash and poke with a fork.

  13. Place in a preheated oven and bake at 160 degrees celsius for 25 - 30 minutes.

  14. Now, meat pies are ready to be served.

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