pls nairalanders help me with the recipe and process of baking meatpies. it will really be appreciated

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Meat Pie
« #11 on: October 02, 2006, 04:30 PM »

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Meat Filling
-small potatoes, diced and cooked (to save time, use frozen hash brown potato cubes)
-lean ground beef (or chicken, or turkey)
-frozen mixed vegetables, cooked (I use the peas, carrots and corn mix)
-onion diced
-red and green sweet peppers, diced
- seasonings (salt, black pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, knorr/maggie etc, whatever you like)

Dough
1/2 cup butter (1 stick) (it should be cold and hard)
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
4-6 tablespoons ice water

-Prepare the filling by browning your meat and spices. WHile it's cooking, stirfry your peppers and onion and veggies. Mix it all together. Taste and adjust seasoning to taste.

-Once ground beef is cooked, add the diced cooked potatoes and heat for 5 minutes. (not too much potatoes). The main purpose is to aborb excesss liquid from the meat mixture, so that you don't end up with soggy meat pies.

-To make dough: Sift together dry ingredients and cut the butter into the dry ingredients with a fork until mixture is crumbly.

-While mixing with a wooden spoon, add water a tablespoon at a time until dough holds together in a ball (you may need more or less water. Just add small amounts at a time). If the dough is crumbly, add a little more water by drops until the dough stays together when you pinch it.
-When dough comes together into a ball roll out the dough until flat.
- Cut out circles (I use a giant cookie cutter for this). If dough becomes sticky or too soft put in fridge for 10 minutes to cool and then take it out again and continue cutting the circles.
-Place meat stuffing in center of pastry circles.
-Fold over and seal using a fork.
-Bake on a lightly greased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until lightly browned.


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you can rub egg on it when you r done with the sealing b4 baking to make it look more attractive.

nice

@ onyi thanks alot.dont they use baking powder?

once you use enough butter, there is no need for baking powder.

Are you ready to pay me; co's I would give you a good break down on how to cook or is it bake? it.

U cant do some thing for free,na wa for you oh.

I just joking na

it better be

she said black pepper,is it that onen they call ghana pepper, that one that is very pepperish?

some pix will be nice too

flour
butter
egg white
salt
water
diced beef
diced onion
diced potatoe

Sieve flour, add a pinch of salt, butter and knead together with your hand. Knead together until its turn to pastry, you may add water to pastry to give desired texture.
mixed diced beef,onion, and potatoes together. add seasoning and allow to boil for few minutes ( pls do not overcook),
roll out pastry and cut into desired size, add your beef mix, brust pastry egg with egg white( to seal pastry) , then close pastry.
Use a fork to make opening on pastry( this is necessary for the steam to escape) and then brush with egg white ( to give it that golden brown finished look)

I hope this helps!!

thanks i will sure try that recipe

You don't really need baking powder.

I love meatpies.

me too

I tried the recipe posted. My meatpie had a good taste, but i think the pastry turn out a little to dry. Am looking for how to improve it to get something soft, What did i do wrong,

There are meatpies and there are meatpies . . . so make sure u learn the real thing and not the ones that scares a child out a pregnant woman

@hadi99 buy ready made pie crust from the freezer section,just roll it out fill,seal wit a fork,brush wit egg n poke some holes to let out steam n bake, comes out perfect.

This meat pie taste yummy.

dammmmn! hunger na baaaaaastard!

that pic dey make me hungry for meatpies o

candylips:

that pic dey make me hunder for meatpies o

Elebi

Kunbee:

Elebi

hmm

candylips:

hmm

You dont understand it means hungry fellow

@ Muffins . . . . . pls send me some now, fax it to me @ 1-800-fax-me-some
That looks gooooood

Kunbee:

You dont understand it means hungry fellow

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